RELATED: 'Blade Runner' Ending Explained: What Does It Mean to Be Human?īlade Runner takes place in the rainy tapestry of dystopian gloom that is Los Angeles in the future of 2019. Now, we could debate for hours about which version is best, but for the sake of this review, we are taking a look back at The Final Cut. Only five versions have been released, with the latest being the 2007 25th Anniversary 'Final Cut' version, edited by Scott personally. There are in fact seven versions of the film known to exist, so it's not difficult to understand why Scott has gone on to say that Blade Runner is by far his most personal film. In this version, dubbed the 'Director's Cut,' Scott scrapped Ford's stilted voiceovers and inserted a 12-second scene that made for a much more ambiguous conclusion. That being said, the reviews for Blade Runner were much more favorable upon the film's re-release in 1992. Even John Carpenter's goopy masterpiece The Thing, which coincidentally was released in theaters on the exact same day as Blade Runner, utterly bombed with critics and audiences alike. It also didn't help that the summer of '82 was an embarrassment of riches for sci-fi fans, with powerhouses like Tron, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and of course, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial coming out within the same two-month span. decision, much to Scott and Ford's disdain - as two major reasons for the flop. Dick's 1968 dystopian science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Given its status today as one of the crowning jewels of sci-fi cinema, it's easy to forget that the film was a colossal box office failure upon its theatrical release in 1982, with critics and fans alike citing slow pacing, lack of action, and Harrison Ford's now infamous voiceover narration - a controversial Warner Bros.

Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, the iconic film - a gritty recipe of sci-fi, neo-noir, and romance - was based on Philip K. It's hard to overstate the cultural impact that Blade Runner has had on cinematic history.

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