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Author Topic: Blade Runner Voted Best Sci-Fi film Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-26-2004 08:19 PM                     I'd definately have to agree on this one. I can thank God that they didn't vote in any of the last Star Wars crappers. Mark The Link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/26/people.runner.ap/index.html LONDON, England (AP) -- A British newspaper survey of top scientists has chosen "Blade Runner" as the world's best sci-fi film. Sixty scientists were questioned, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, The Guardian newspaper said Wednesday. In the 1982 film, a retired policeman played by Harrison Ford hunts down renegade human replicates in a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles. "It was so far ahead of its time and the whole premise of the story -- what is it to be human and who are we, where we come from. It's the age-old questions," said Stephen Minger, a stem cell biologist at King's College, London. Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" came in a close second, followed by George Lucas' "Star Wars" and "Star Wars Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back." The list also includes "Alien," the original "Solaris" (1972), "The Terminator," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "War of the Worlds," "The Matrix" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-26-2004 08:41 PM                     Still waiting for a decent version of it on DVD.... Current one: non-anamorphic, 2.0 audio. Shit. Um, 70mm Dolby mag in original release. Hello? Are the fellas at Warner Home Video retards or what?  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 08-26-2004 09:06 PM                     >Current one: non-anamorphic, 2.0 audio. Shit. The DVD I have is certainly 16x9 anamorphic. Dolby Digital would be nice, but hey, the film's original 35mm prints were only Dolby A. I still like the original theatrical version better than the so called "directors cut". The film does not work right without the voice-overs, the unicorn was out of place and broke up a very nice piece of music, and I liked the semi-happy ending in the car. The original version is much more ambiguous as to whether or not Decker is a replicant, and as such, makes a more powerful statement about what it is to be human. /Mitchell  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 08-26-2004 09:57 PM                        no way, the director's cut rules. You can't play Pink Floyd's Meddle over the top of the theatrical version. It just doesn't sync correctly.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-27-2004 09:47 AM                        The original 35-mm prints were dual inventory, Mono and SVA Dolby A.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-27-2004 11:07 AM                        Blade Runner is one of those films that I've come to appreciate much more on seeing it after its original release. It's truly a masterpiece (flawed, but a masterpiece). I saw the Director's Cut version a few years ago on an anniversary re-release and the print, although in as-new condition, didn't look all that great: more than a little washed out and grainy. Original cut, not the Director's Cut please.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 08-27-2004 11:38 AM                     The big problem with the director's cut is that when they removed the voice-over narriation, they did not re-cut the scenes. This left the film with many sections with people standing around doing nothing for long periods of time. In the original theatrical cut, Harrison Ford's voice overs are giving you background information, much the way old 1940's film noir film did.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-27-2004 05:12 PM                     Apparently there's a hold up on this, because the producer or someone won't license them the "workprint" version from the 70mm print or something like that. So I believe now they are going to release it only the theatrical and directors cut, not the 3 version one they were planning on originally.  |  IP: Logged

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