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Blade Runner
1982
Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society. Read more
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Sean Young |
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| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Blade Runner
Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society.
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Sean Young, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah |
|---|---|
| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | Blu-ray: 1 hr 53 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English, Italian |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 12 Aug 2002 Blu-ray: 03 Dec 2007 HD DVD: 03 Dec 2007 Production year: 1982 |
| Format | DVD |
Blade Runner (1982)
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A super Philip K Dick story about a superdick searching for rebellious replicants translates here into a violent visual eye-popper, based in a futuristic Los Angeles, which set the acid rain/neon-drenched metropolis design standard for eighties sci-fi. As influential as 2001: a Space Odyssey and Star Wars, and as thought-provoking as the former Kubrick classic, Ridley Scott's atmospheric downer is a compelling noir thriller that pleads for harmony between man and machine. Harrison Ford stars as the former cop assigned to track down android Rutger Hauer and his three associates. Hauer gives an exceptional performance as the blond humanoid who, like the others, has been implanted with memories of a nonexistent youth. This Director's Cut, which drops Ford's voice-over, actually adds more depth to the 1982 original, so the full masterpiece can shine through. A masterpiece of recent cinema.
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A cult film par excellence, and notable for its exceptional production design of a future Los Angeles, which has become a mix of high tech buildings surrounded by seedy street life under lowering clouds and incessant acid rain.
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31 out of 32 people found this review helpful
The Greatest Sci Fi Film Ever Made
"Bladerunner" is a film that shaped the way I think. There are not many films you can say that about. Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick called 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?', the film explores a dystopic future where the unwanted members of humanity live in polluted, murky and grossly overcrowded megacities. The golden children are whipped away from Earth to the planetary colonies to escape the degradation. Above the filth, the Tyrell Corporation churns out androids to cater to the whims of humans. What happens when a group of androids (that are very difficult to tell apart from humans) decide they are destined for something better and go on a murderous rampage? Easy, you hire a bounty hunter to wipe them out. In a startlingly intelligent examination of humanity's treatment towards what are considered lower lifeforms, you will find yourself rooting for both the bounty hunter and the androids - weird.
Harrison Ford is good as Deckard but the standout is Rutger Hauer as Roy Battey, the android leader. If you have dry eyes in his last scene, well, you're not human! Beautiful model work and a scorching soundtrack by Vangelis ensure the elevation of this film in to the ranks of the divine and holy! -
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10 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Los Angeles, 2019.
Are films like wine? Do they improve with age? The answer is probably no, but, this film seems to have lost nothing over the years. In the days when model work and hand matting were how you did special effects, this film is a great example of what can be achieved. The vast metropolis we see lain before us, the computer controlled flying cars, and the giant Tyrell building are images that will stick in your mind far longer than a computer rendered scene in the latest blockbuster.
As the story progresses, a first time viewer may be confused; lacking the original narration, this directors cut can seem sparse in story and it’s loss detracts from the film noir feel both of the set and Deckards’ character. On a second viewing however, safe in the knowledge of what will happen next, you can truly take in the detail, fine acting and of course, subtle hints as to Deckards’ true nature. Tense right the way through, with a saddening ending (bolstered with an emotional speech by Rutger Hauer) the viewer is left with a genuine feeling of loss in this strange world not too distant from our own. Enhanced by the wonderful score by Vangelis, you’ll feel truly immersed in this film, and hopefully ask yourself the same questions that Deckard cannot answer. -
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Badgley eyes Blade Runner sequel
- 06 Jun 2009
Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley is hoping to follow in the Footloose footsteps of his co-star Chace Crawford - he's eyeing his own Hollywood remake with Harrison Ford's Blade Runner. Crawford signed on to star in the remake of Kevin Bacon's 1984 dance film Footlose earlier this year (09) after High School Musical star Zac Efron pulled out of the cast. And 22-year-old Badgley is keen to make moves of his own on the big screen, in a re-write of Ford's 1982 sci-fi film. He tells the New York Daily... Read more
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