The only format you should watch in is Blu-Ray. I'll probaly watch the International version tonight.

runphilrun said:

The only format you should watch in is Blu-Ray. I'll probaly watch the International version tonight.

Don't have Blu-Ray

PurpleJedi said:

Phishanga said:

I'm going to watch it again this Friday. Who's joining?

I'll hit Blockbuster on the way home...!

There are still Blockbusters in Long Island?

perhaps the best movie of the 80s

amazing that it was so totally ignored in 1982 (best movie of 1982 by far, forget about the just-ok Gandhi and the cheesefest E.T.)

Going to start now. But which version? Think I'm going with the work cut.

Phishanga said:

Going to start now. But which version? Think I'm going with the work cut.

I absolutely think that the "original" 1982 happy-ending version (which Harrison loved/loves) was perfect

but the ambiguous, bittersweet Double DVD ending is also intriguing...

I have NO IDEA about what the fuck we can find inside that crazy 6 dvd box

sextonseven said:

PurpleJedi said:

I'll hit Blockbuster on the way home...!

There are still Blockbusters in Long Island?

Yup!

There's even one or two Hollywood Video stores still hanging on (I think...).

Phishanga said:

Going to start now. But which version? Think I'm going with the work cut.

I wouldn't recommend starting with the Workprint. Not only is it rougher and missing part of the score (there's temp music in its place), but the picture quality is not that solid. I'd recommend one of these:

Final Cut: best looking/sounding, director's approved version

International Cut: has voiceover, controversial ending, more graphic violence than the original US cut, and will give you the '1982' experience

eyewishuheaven said:

Phishanga said:

Going to start now. But which version? Think I'm going with the work cut.

I wouldn't recommend starting with the Workprint. Not only is it rougher and missing part of the score (there's temp music in its place), but the picture quality is not that solid. I'd recommend one of these:

Final Cut: best looking/sounding, director's approved version

International Cut: has voiceover, controversial ending, more graphic violence than the original US cut, and will give you the '1982' experience

Nah, wasn't my first time watching it. Seen it a couple of times already.

Oh, okay. Oops!

Those extra shots of Deckard returning home for Rachael are pretty bitchin', huh?

Phishanga said:

I'm going to watch it again this Friday. Who's joining?

It's Friday and I'm tempted.

Last watched it about a year ago.

runphilrun said:

The only format you should watch in is Blu-Ray. I'll probaly watch the International version tonight.

I have DVD. It'll have to do. Is Blu Ray that much of an improvement on a film transfer?

2007 Two disc Final Cut

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SUPRMAN said:

Is Blu Ray that much of an improvement on a film transfer?

On a large HD television, blu-ray can't be beat!

However, I watched Blade Runner on pan n' scan VHS from 1983-1993, widescreen VHS from 1993-1999, dvd from 1999-2008, and never had any complaints!

eyewishuheaven said:

SUPRMAN said:

Is Blu Ray that much of an improvement on a film transfer?

On a large HD television, blu-ray can't be beat!

However, I watched Blade Runner on pan n' scan VHS from 1983-1993, widescreen VHS from 1993-1999, dvd from 1999-2008, and never had any complaints!

Got that. Blu-Ray does look better than DVD but not so much I want to replace my DVD collection.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Literary genius, celebrated visionary, paranoid outcast: writer Philip K. Dick lived a life of ever-shifting realities straight from the pages of his mind-bending sci-fi stories. Dick's iconoclastic work fuels blockbuster films like Minority Report and Blade Runner, and inspires ground breaking research in physics, robotics—even law enforcement.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Dick pioneers the concept of virtual reality in his fiction. From this analog era, Philip K. Dick dreams into being a digital future — now realized in everything from motion-sensing video games, to the revolutionary simulated environments of UC San Diego's fully immersive StarCAVE.

In the 1956 thriller The Minority Report, Dick envisions a reality where pre-crime police can peer into the future to stop crimes before they occur. Fifty years later, American police departments unveil the bleeding edge in real-world precognitive crime prevention technology.

Dick's landmark 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep — known to a generation of moviegoers as Blade Runner — posits a blurring of the line between man and machine. According to robot-engineers, we are now on the cusp of just such a world.

The brilliant author's work continues to resound with an always-expanding audience. Through a lifetime of surreal experience, Philip K. Dick confronts readers with a deceptively simple question: What is reality?

http://science.discovery....k-bio.html

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Nice Phillip K. Dick segment currently running on the Science Channel series Prophets of Science Fiction.




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Questions

1. Was Rachel as strong as the other replicants? Being a 'robot' or android probably would automatically give you beyond human strength

Comment

1. Dekkard couldn't have been a replicant because he didn't have the strength the other replicants had

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You really really really really really really really really like this movie, don't you? lol

OldFriends4Sale said:

Questions

1. Was Rachel as strong as the other replicants? Being a 'robot' or android probably would automatically give you beyond human strength

Of course we don't know for sure, but she was a damn good shot with a pistol she'd never fired before (I doubt she'd ever fired one at all), so I'm thinking yes.

retina said:

You really really really really really really really really like this movie, don't you? lol

Love sci fi with a lot of mystery and an interesting background

a movie that makes u ask questions

Plus the talk of the sequal has me checking back in2 it. watched it this morning

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OldFriends4Sale said:

Questions

1. Was Rachel as strong as the other replicants? Being a 'robot' or android probably would automatically give you beyond human strength

Comment

1. Dekkard couldn't have been a replicant because he didn't have the strength the other replicants had

[Edited 11/25/11 18:53pm]

Why would that be true? It is not axiomatic.

They do not have to be designed for beyond human strength.

It may be cost effective that they aren't, or more aesthetically pleasing.

Thanks for the pics, mate. I downloaded those Sean Young polaroids; they are HOT.

SUPRMAN said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Questions

1. Was Rachel as strong as the other replicants? Being a 'robot' or android probably would automatically give you beyond human strength

Comment

1. Dekkard couldn't have been a replicant because he didn't have the strength the other replicants had

[Edited 11/25/11 18:53pm]

Why would that be true? It is not axiomatic.

They do not have to be designed for beyond human strength.

It may be cost effective that they aren't, or more aesthetically pleasing.

I'm not saying it's true, it's a thought that brought up the question.

But it would seem in that world, that they all would be 'stronger' than humans

I mean Priss is a basic pleasure model, but she has beyond human abilities

Plus an android wouldn't have human weakness which would prob put them on a higher level of strength