Mark Kermode - Talks About Blade Runner

[TURBODORK2]

the reason i had trouble with deckard being a replicant is the first time i saw the movie it had a voice over with him talking about his ex wife and how much he hated killing. this was just when the directors cut came out

[Frellyouall]

I hated Blade Runner. Looked great BUT paper thin plot, paper thin characters, paper thin script. Pretentious nonsense.

[ZAMPAROAD]

@Frellyouall if you hate bladerunner i recommend you go to your local cinema and watch the absolute bilge showing then watch bladerunner again. then shut the fuck up

[Mrster]

@Frellyouall

I love the movie, but the plot isn't deep and not nearly as profound as a lot of fans find it. It's film noir.

[squamish4244]

@Mrster Scott's style of visual storytelling is a big part of what makes it effective, and of course the quality of the acting. On paper I don't imagine it would seem that big of a deal.

[Mrster]

@squamish4244

That's what it has going for it mainly. There is nothing deep, profound or extremely sci-fi about it.

[terratrema]

Och. My feelings towards Blade Runner are mixed. There are remarkable things about it, and I certainly never find myself getting bored when I watch it.

But the film is an orgy of gaping plot-holes, which is quite something, when you consider how thin the plot actually is. And the acting falls into one of two categories: too much, or too little.

BUT! It is so wonderfully visually spectacular, even after 30 years. And the whole climax is nightmarish and thrilling; two things I like in movies.

[vishifishi01]

i would rather watch the narration cuts, i've watched the final cut and i don't really get it

[TheDensley7]

Philip K Dick's novel is vastly superior to Blade Runner.

[Rennikus]

I watched Blade Runner a while ago. It was alright, pretty boring. Then I read the book, and the book was shit.

I am not endearing myself to many film fans here.

[mindprism]

@Rennikus {Then I read the book, and the book was shit.} Did you know PK Dick is considered the most prescient SF writers of all time? Did you know when he wrote this stuff? In the '50s Here is a list of the movies based on his work: Blade Runner (1982) Screamers (1995) Total Recall (1990) Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) Impostor (2001) Minority Report (2002) Paycheck (2003) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Next (2007) The Adjustment Bureau (2010) King of the Elves (2012)

[Rennikus]

@mindprism Yeah, I know that. No doubt lots of people love the Blade Runner book, I just couldn't follow all that shit about the guy at the top of the hill, and how they're all walking up to him or something - which really didn't make sense to me.

[Blackbookz]

Currently available on iPlayer for those in the UK.

[SalamiKing7]

I LOVE Blade Runner!

[Smithereen1]

Androids don't dream of electric sheep but they do dream of white horses.

[psycomedia]

the fact that Deckard is an android himself can be gotten from the book the movie is based on, "do androids dream of electric sheep?" by phillip k dick

[dcj28]

@psycomedia Which you clearly didn't read properly, as in the book Deckard takes the Voight Kampff test and is proven to be HUMAN.

[psycomedia]

@dcj28

'can be gotten' was meant as 'sufficient ground exists for the conclusion to be made plausibly'....not 'he wrote that'

Dicks writing consistently portrays these lines of the shortcomings of self-identity and the fragility of the modern personality structure (partly a result and a cause of his paranoid habits)

what Scott does in the director's cut is bring the story to its logical conclusion;

by retrieving his memories, rather than re-affirmed, deckards idea of himself is disintegrated

[ashleywetherall]

I still like the original voice over version . It a Philip Marlow feel to it .

[klaos9999]

is the blu ray version the final cut!??????

[welshfilmbuff]

@klaos9999

The single release is ; don't know about the box set with all five versions.

[DulBeat]

Final Cut is the real version. It's the difinitive version, and the past ones are irrelevant.

[Vebinz]

One point: Mark states that his documentary is where Ridley Scott first states that Deckard is a Replicant, but I believe I read about that opinion of Scott in Sammon's book "Future Noir" a few years before.

[Vebinz]

First time I saw it was with the voice-over, but quickly prefered the Director's Cut.

Haven;'t seen the Final Cut yet, mostly because I don't think I'll like the "goofs" removed; there is something charming about them and I am now used to seeing them.

[jd899]

I've got the Collector's Edition DVD which I still need to watch

[ellbo2]

I'm one of those lucky ones

[Experimentalfilms123]

The first time I saw Blade Runner was the final cut. It's one of my favourite films ever.

[drplbiftin]

Greatest film of all time.