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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 |
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| 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 | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English, Italian |
| Subtitles | 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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30 out of 31 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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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Real Sci-Fi!!!
Yes, I take the point that some people have made that this is nowhere near the story of the book, but if you take it as a movie and don't try to compare it to the book you are watching the finest Sci-Fi film ever made (so far!).
I have watched this (both the original and the directors cut) I don't know how many times and the last Rutger Hauer scene makes me cry EVERY time. I won't spoil the film for you by telling you why it makes me cry, but take my advice and watch it - if it does make you cry you mustn't have a soul!!!
As mentioned elsewhere, the cinematography, the direction, the acting, the lighting, the music, the script, everything about this film just oozes class. I have to say this is still the best Sci-Fi movie ever made, and quite possibly the best movie ever made full stop.
Do yourself a favour - don't rent it, buy it, then you can watch it again and again and again.
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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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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....
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