My Mom Watches BLADE RUNNER (1982) FINAL CUT | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching

[@tbirdparis]

4:46 Actually, mum accidentally nailed it here. Blade Runner came out in 1982 which was _exactly_ during the time when Han Solo was frozen in carbonite... That happened in Empire Strikes Back which came out in 1980, and he wasn't rescued and unfrozen until Return of the Jedi in 1983. :)

[@Jen-Mom]

😊

[@Yngvarfo]

And in the MAD Magazine parody of Return of the Jedi, , Leia (or Laidup) asked him how he was able to do Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner if he was frozen this whole time. 😊

[@Elder-Sage]

Mom is awesome. She notices so many things that most people miss.

[@flossy7258]

please somebody get this "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Daryl, and this is my other brother Darryl."

[@cesarvidelac]

I always remember that! 😹 Also remember that joke in the animaniacs cartoons, do you? My best regards! 🤗

[@Jen-Mom]

Yes! 😊

[@TheGunslingerRoland]

I loved that show. Rest in peace Bob.

[@hanoc101]

Newhart

[@torpedoboy4]

Yes, I’m old and LOVED watching “Newhart”

[@miller-joel]

4:20 They are not robots or androids. They are genetically engineered.

[@jachyra9]

Replicants are androids.

[@Ispycr33ps]

Forgot to add that Rutger Hauer is one of my favourite baddie actors,perfect for this role.

[@larsickenroth7169]

Have a look at ‘Soldaat van Oranje’, a Dutch movie about the Second World War, directed by Paul Verhoeven, the one who also directed Hauer in the tv-series ‘Floris’ that brought him national fame. And yes, that is also the Paul Verhoeven who directed Basic Instinct, Robocop, etc.

[@manueldeabreu1980]

The ending was always made to be left ambiguous. Since Decker dreamed of the unicorn and then he finds the origami unicorn it implies he knows Decker's dreams and Decker is a replicant.

[@jachyra9]

It doesn't imply that. Because the film doesn't establish that Deckard dreamed of a unicorn. All we know is that a unicorn showed up on the screen for all of ten seconds. If anything, it's metaphor for the film's central theme: the impossibility of more time, more life.

[@ivanbogdanovic7885]

@@jachyra9 Actually, in a few interviews, Ridley Scott said unicorn dream implies that Deckard is a replicant.

[@jachyra9]

@@ivanbogdanovic7885 - That's a shame. Because he made a movie that doesn't substantiate what he's saying.

[@Paul_1971]

​@@ivanbogdanovic7885He retroactively tried to change it - it wasn't the original (and my preferred) intention.

[@ivanbogdanovic7885]

@ I agree completely. I guess it was an afterthought.

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

This movie has an amazing look and esthetic for a reason. It was made during an actors guild strike. The actors were on strike for something like 18 months leaving the set designers and decorators, model makers, carpenters and special effects people free to go nvts with the sets, effects and scenery. There are several others that when you see them just look better than the rest. In the end the actors got what they wanted and got back to work and we got several exceptionally good looking movies.

[@shanehebert396]

I like to think that at the end, Batty understood how life is precious and fleeting because he had so little of it and so little time left, and that's why he saved Deckard from the fall and then didn't kill him.

[@BouillaBased]

Daryl Hannah really put her arm through that window, and took it like a champ.

[@Jen-Mom]

😬

[@Dystopia1111]

The Hitcher - underrated 80s suspense thriller. Rutger Hauer is so freaking good.

[@TheTrueRatPack]

But (SORRY!) it's not simply "sythesizer-80's-type-music! It's pure VANGELIS'-Music at its best!!!! Absolutely MASTER-CLASS!! - You'll not hear those sounds in very much other 80's-movies, unless VANGELIS himself wrote those music scores.

[@Jen-Mom]

😊

[@Karnaby-m3w]

I remember the original version had a voice over of Harrison Ford's character so it felt like a film noir even more. I watched it on video in1983, so I wish I had seen it on the big screen. It did have a happier ending.

[@gridplan]

20:15 Deckard's apartment was either filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House or on a set designed from it. I'm not sure which. Ennis House was designed in 1923 in the Mayan Revival style. This house has been in other movies, too.

[@JoeDatorCartoonist]

It’s a set, based on the Ennis house.

[@JohnDoe-bz4yl]

This was the first movie on 4K that i watched and it looks and sounds fantastic for an older movie

[@cesarvidelac]

I remember watching the movie on TV in 1983-84, also remember that this version was done to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the movie release in 1992, I watched it in a movie theater, there was great expectations about it. I'm glad you are watching this at last! I recommend you watch the sequel, Bladerunner 2049, also the animated and live mini episodes released on internet before the theater release and also a related movie done in the same universe called "Soldier" with Kurt Russell, you'll see there's a mention of the Tannhäuser's gate battle that Roy Batty quote in his monolog. Great video as always guys, much love! 🤗

[@Jen-Mom]

😊❤

[@ganymeade275]

Pretty sure this was the 2007 director's cut, not the 1992 one based on his notes. I don't recall off the top of my head what the differences are.

[@frugalseverin2282]

For me this is more than just a piece of entertainment, it's a statement of the human condition, the morality of creating human slaves. Aside from the method of creation there's little to distinguish a replicant from a human. Rachael is devastated when she learns she's not human, that some of her memories don't even belong to her. And Roy wanted Deckard to live so he could pass along to him his dying thoughts and experiences. He wanted to be remembered, it's tragic.

[@Rickhorse1]

The biggest change from the original theatrical version (in addition to the ending you mentioned) was actually the studio insistence that they add voice-over narration by Harrison Ford. (Which both Ford & Scott hated) This was a common interference by studio execs of the time, who had a very low opinion of audience intelligence. Removing the narration forces the viewer to pay attention (what a concept!) and increases the tension while setting up a somewhat ambiguous ending...which was intended. IMO, one of the most memorable scores for a movie (by electronic music composer, Vangelis)

[@Ispycr33ps]

This is amazing, watched with my dad. Brings back great memories. Lovely to see you share this with your beautiful mother,thanks guys. ❤

[@Flix2Us]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed.

[@miller-joel]

38:50 The speech was not that much longer. Hauer made it a bit shorter and added "tears in the rain." Clearly better, but not a complete rewrite.

[@Alex_Gordon]

nice reactions and analysis for an EPIC movie! Rutger Hauer was also great in The Hitchhiker and Blind Fury

[@group-music]

The Hitcher not The Hitchhiker. But yes a great movie.

[@chris...9497]

Gotham is East Coast; Blade Runner is West Coast. Blade Runner is set in Los Angeles. It was already obvious how much West Coast culture is influenced by Asia, and it's only become more so over the passage of time, so the prediction of that is spot on. Traditionally, Film Noire was also set in L.A. or San Francisco. The theory among some fans of this film that Deckard is himself a replicant still works if, like Rachel, he doesn't know he's a replicant, even with his flat affect. His dreams of a unicorn could be an implanted memory, which can explain the little gum wrapper unicorn Gaff leaves in the hallway outside Deckard's apartment as a clue to Deckard of who/what he is.

[@scgreek1114]

Definitely one of my top 5 Sci-Fi films. In the theatrical version Deckard explains at the end via narration that Rachel has no pre-programmed lifespan. For other commenters reading this, PLEASE refrain from commenting on how horrible you think that version is. I'm not making that distinction here. Thanks!

[@michaelschwartz8730]

Saw the original model of the Tyrell Corporation on display in a museum in Queens. Pretty sweet

[@bingsterc7621]

@Flix2Us - Uma Thurman wasn’t in Blade Runner. The Actress who played The Replicant Pris was Daryl Hannah.

[@Masihiun-sahraallibya]

Love, love this movie! So glad you did a reaction to it.

[@MattJMcDade]

Love you guys! Your reactions are classic. Thank you so much, from this Brit in the UK. Please keep them coming. And that isn't a Bond double entendre.

[@Jen-Mom]

❤

[@Wilss]

I totally believe that Deckard was a replicant, just not a Nexus 6, hence he's weaker. But the Unicorn dream being an implanted memory, the detective leaving the little unicorn outside his apartment at the end, knowing that was one of his implanted dreams. Also after Roy Batty dies he tells Deckard that he's done a 'man's' job, possibly implying he isn't one.

[@jachyra9]

The film doesn't establish that Deckard is dreaming, or that the unicorn we're seeing is an implanted memory. It's just conformation bias.

[@Wilss]

@@jachyra9 I agree it doesn't establish that that it's an implanted memory, but it definitely establishes that it's in his mind at the piano. If the movie wants you to think about it, it's not gonna just blantantly tell you.

[@jachyra9]

@@Wilss - How does it establish that it's in Deckard's mind? How? The movie, like no movie, is interested in your interpretation. Because you will interpret the information any way you want to.

[@Wilss]

@@jachyra9 Because he's sat there thinking about it. Has his eyes closed, opens them in a day dream, the vision comes up, then it goes back to him in his day dream state. I'm struggling to see how you don't get that from that sequence of events.

[@jachyra9]

@@Wilss - I'm struggling to see how you can make that interpretation, especially considering that the unicorn sequence was inserted after the fact. The original theatrical cut I saw in 1982 never had a unicorn in it.

[@dopebeets1]

I forget his name but the country sounding guy was on the Newhart show in the 80s and on a great show called Deadwood. I would love it if you two would consider watching Deadwood. Ian McShane puts on a masterclass on acting in it.

[@PasserMontanus]

Sean Young (Rachel) plays Chani (Paul Atreides's love interest) in David Lynch's Dune. Denis Villeneuve made his own version of Dune and he also made a sequel to Blade Runner (which is also excellent).

[@EricJonPearson1]

Daryl Hannah's thrashing death scene is a lot like her death scene in Kill Bill 2.

[@scottneil1187]

Coupla little things, replicants aren't androids, they're advanced humans and 2049 is a sequel, not a redo.

[@jachyra9]

Replicants are androids.

[@cuoresportivo155]

yes, the point (to me at least) is where is the line between a replicant (a tool or slave) and a human with human rights.

[@jachyra9]

Replicants and androids are the same thing.

[@ianforman920]

@@jachyra9 'Replicants and androids are the same thing'... except replicants are flesh & blood, genetically engineered humans, and androids are mechanical robots built to appear human.

[@cuoresportivo155]

@@jachyra9 no they are not.

[@sonosoloio]

the 1982 theatrical version is the best

[@Paul_1971]

100% - much prefer the narration

[@Tiisiphone]

What's the definition of a human being? What's the difference with these advanced replicants and us, they can feel, love, be angry just like us. Food for thought...

[@jachyra9]

They were grown in a lab. I had parents. Pretty cut and dry, really.

[@dawns.427]

Great reaction guys. This is a favorite movie of mine! Love the sequel too! If you enjoyed this check out The Creator. It's another of this type, artificial life forms and their right to live and their evolution. Great movie!

[@Jen-Mom]

😊

[@kylewestlake982]

I hope we seen the Shoulder of Orion and the Tannhauser Gate one of these days

[@miller-joel]

40:00 The happy ending doesn't just contradict the rest of the story but also Philip K. Dick as a writer. The only Hollywood adaptation of his stories that's not insulting, besides this one, is A Scanner Darkly.

[@chart6454]

Need to get this channel to 100k

[@Jen-Mom]

I know, right?! 😊❤

[@Flix2Us]

Fingers crossed!

[@miller-joel]

If you build it, they will come.

[@ursobr1961]

Let's see what you think of "Blade Runner 2049". Many people were underwhelmed because the original movie is a masterpiece in so many ways that any sequel would have to deal with sky-high expectations, and of course no sequel could match the genius and impact of the original "Blade Runner". "2049" is also way too long, it didn't need to be almost 3 hours, it could have resolved everything in much less time, and sometimes it gets too slow. Yet it's still great in many ways, especially in how it deepens and takes further some of the philosophical aspects of the original movie in a very intelligent way. Joy, the character played by Ana de Armas, is a particularly great idea that was superbly explored and acted.

[@PasserMontanus]

Rutger Hauer died in the same year as Roy Batty (2019).

[@eddhardy1054]

Hi Guys, don't forget there's a tv series (Blade Runner 2099) coming soon... Also I don't think Ridley Scott or Philip K. Dick (or any other filmmaker or author) actually thinks when they pick a year that technologically it's really gonna be like that.

[@tommiller4895]

I was looking for Sebastian's Brother Larry and his other Brother Larry.

[@aleasflowers7285]

Your mom is cool 🎉❤😊

[@AlmostPerfect3d]

Either you love this film ot hate it. One of my favorites

[@angelabatiste446]

Enjoyed watching your reaction. Definitely check out Blade Runner 2049. I think it's another Villeneuve masterpiece, even though there seems to be a lot of disappointment to some people. It answers a lot of questions you've tossed around.

[@ClaytonMacleod]

There are no robots in this movie. The opening text scroll explained how robot making had evolved so far that they were now genetically designing beings virtually identical to humans. In other words, the field of industry that used to make robots got better and better until they started incorporating organics into their world. Genetically designing features they wanted of the life forms they created. No more mechanical robots. They got so good at their jobs they started making people. People like Deckard and Rachael.

[@jachyra9]

Deckard is not a replicant.

[@ClaytonMacleod]

Ridley Scott and his movie say he is. 🤦‍♂️

[@jachyra9]

@ - No iteration of Blade Runner even hints at, let alone establishes that Deckard is a replicant. I can say that you're a toaster all day long. That doesn't make it so.

[@ClaytonMacleod]

@@jachyra9 Sorry to break it to you, but the unicorn dream and unicorn origami are there to directly tell you that Deckard is a replicant. There are tons of other clues throughout the movie, but this is bashing you over the head with it. Gaff can't know about the unicorn unless Deckard is a replicant and that is a memory implant that he knows about. And Ridley Scott flat out saying "Yes, Deckard is a replicant." makes it beyond an open and shut case. It isn't even debatable once he says that. He directly tells you it is so. Heh.

[@jachyra9]

@@ClaytonMacleod - "Sorry to break it to you, but the unicorn dream and unicorn origami are there to directly tell you that Deckard is a replicant." Sorry to break it to you but the unicorn dream isn't proven to be a dream: the audience isn't told that Deckard is in fact dreaming and also dreaming of this imagery that we're seeing. It's just footage of a horse with an ice cream cone glued to its forehead running through a forest. The origami is symbolism, and in the case of the unicorn functions as a metaphor for the theme that has been slapping you in the face for two hours: more time, more life is an impossibility. That's all. "There are tons of other clues throughout the movie," I believe that you belive there are. But there aren't. It's just confirmation bias on your part. "Gaff can't know about the unicorn unless Deckard is a replicant and that is a memory implant that he knows about." Except that the film doesn't establish that Gaff knows that we watched a horse run through a forest a little while ago. You did notice that Gaff has been creating origami throughout the entire film, yes? "And Ridley Scott flat out saying "Yes, Deckard is a replicant." makes it beyond an open and shut case. It isn't even debatable once he says that. He directly tells you it is so. Heh." No. The film doesn't claim, let alone prove what Ridley says. If Ridley told you that Rachel was a meerkat, would you believe him?

[@Concreteowl]

This iteration of Cyberpunk is more commonly refered to as Neon Noire.

[@DMichaelAtLarge]

The music was composed by Vangelis, a new age kind of guy. It's masterful, ingenious in the way it helped design the mood of the film's environment. The film is very different from the novel it was adapted from, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" There is no surreal mood to the story. It's presented in a matter-of-fact realistic way---minus the science fiction elements. Roy Batty had a replicant wife with him in addition to the other three replicants. Decker owned a replicant sheep himself. Real animals were a prestige item to own, so owning some kind of replicant pet was what most people had, and most any kind of replicant animal could be a pet, like Decker having a pet sheep. Most importantly, the book made it quite clear Decker was NOT a replicant. But director Ridley Scott was adamant that in his film, Decker was a replicant. Personally, I hate that Scott insisted on that, because the whole theme of the story was to contrast the human experience with the replicant experience, and making Decker a replicant destroys that theme. Therefore I hate the addition of the unicorn dreams that were not in the original since they were there to force Ridley's interpretation of the film in violation of the book's presenting Decker as human. The theatrical release included voice-over narration by Harrison Ford as Decker, explaining what was going on throughout the film, because the suits thought the audience would be too stupid to understand o their own. They also insisted on tacking on a cheesy happy ending because they figured we were too emotionally stunted to deal with an open-ended ending. I'll never know if I would have followed what's going on without the narration. I like the open-ended ending over tacking on the makeshift last scene where we hear thumping helicopter blades as the camera points down at a grassy field passing underneath. Novel author Philip K. Dick is not a well-known name outside of science fiction circles, but well revered within them as a teller of pretty eccentric stories. But many of his stories have been adapted to popular films. These include "Total Recall," Minority Report," "Screamers," "The Adjustment Bureau," and as an Amazon Prime four-season series, "The Man in the High Castle." Because of these adaptations, I get the feeling that the general audience is becoming more familiar with the name Philip K. Dick.

[@Laroyeexu]

Awesome.

[@williamjones6031]

1. Tyrell /Joe Turkel😇played Lloyd (bartender) in "The Shining". 2. Roy/Rutger Hauer 😇plays in "Blind Fury" a great first time/share. 3. Leon/ Brion James in "Tango and Cash". Much bigger role first time/share also. 4. Deckard/Harrison Ford two overlooked must first time/share "Witness" and "Force 10 from Naverone". 5. In the original Roy tells Tyrell, "I want more life FUCKER" not father. 6. Ford disliked almost everything about this movie (including Sean Young). He mostly disliked the voiceover. He refused to even watch it until it was "fixed". 7. I prefer the original cut. 8. Daryl Hannah cut her elbow when she ran into that van window 9. Philipe K Dick first came up with the idea for his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" 10. You must watch Blade Runner 2049.

[@jennifergrove2368]

Can you guys do "Logan's Run"?

[@shainewhite2781]

This is the superior version of Blade Runner, and has been considered as one of the best Sci Fi movies ever made. Roger Ebert gave this a solid 4 star rating, as the more he watched it, the more he enjoyed it.

[@eddhardy1054]

Pity he didn't watch The Thing more than once then 😔

[@Doverkin]

1:15 not sure if u think Blade Runner 2049 Is a remake/redo....... cus it aint. all i can say without spoilers

[@ganymeade275]

There is one big thing that hints towards him possibly being a replicant, the origami Unicorn left for him at the end. Unless it was simply a coincidence it implies that the unicorn dream was one of Deckard's implanted memories.

[@miller-joel]

@@ganymeade275 That's the kind of crap Scott would do.

[@jachyra9]

Yeah, Ridley claiming that Deckard is a replicant is pure nonsense.

[@ganymeade275]

@@jachyra9 There are quite a few people involved with the movie who say he is, quite a few who say he isn't, and pretty much all of them say they wanted it to be ambiguous. So there is ultimately no way to know whether he is or is not, intentionally so.

[@miller-joel]

@@ganymeade275 Except the people who say he is don't have good arguments, and the people who say he isn't, do.

[@ganymeade275]

@ Which is your opinion, not fact, Try not to confuse the two, will save you a lot of embarrassment in life.

[@yooochoooob]

The " Happy Ending " version ( US theatrical release ~ 1982 ) kind of clashes with the " It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does !? " line ... but ... You have to remember that Rachel was a special model, not designed for military operations and it's speculated she was created with no premature expiration date. Anyway ! ... To each their own, but having seen the abrupt cliff-hanger ending back in 82 when it aired here on UK TV, the " Happy Ending " is a generally unappreciated bastardisation of what many of us deem to be the " original " version 😉

[@qadahalajaracartel4816]

Pleas watching Project X based on a true story...😉

[@silverbladeTE]

The "Theatrical Cut" is way better not only because it's pure film noir, but the voice over explains more :) the Replicants are not robots, they are genetically engineered Humans, Tyrell Corp refers to them as "robots" to dehumanize them... Deckard's gun is in the "Fallout" games, the ".223 Pistol", and "That Gun" ;)

[@miller-joel]

The narration is horrible. And not needed at all.

[@silverbladeTE]

@@miller-joel Totally disagree ;) The narration enhances the "film noir" feel, and explains important points you cannot get from the film as is or not easily

[@miller-joel]

@@silverbladeTE Let's just disagree.

[@ennesshay5040]

Why did Gaff make an origami unicorn ?!!!!!!!!!!

[@group-music]

To indicate that he knows Rachael is unique.

[@stephenkay4008]

@@group-musicThere is a scene included in the Director’s Cut where Deckard dreams of a Unicorn in a forest, so Gaff knows that Deckard is a Replicant too.

[@group-music]

@stephenkay4008 Oh yes I know that. Bit the film had been out for 10 years before that unicorn dream was added. The writers wrote Deckard as human, but Ridley Scott wanted to add a pointless "twist" at the end, and ruining the movie to some extent.