Film: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
Showing: Sat Dec 19, 9pm, BBC2
Why It’s A Must-See: Ridley Scott’s seminal dystopian sci-fi has always been essential viewing, but this 2007 Final Cut version is the one he always wanted to put his name to.
The previous effort at a definitive version, 1992’s Directors Cut, was actually only ‘approved’ by Scott, and was in fact created largely in his absence; this edit was completely hands-on, ensuring the finished article was as close to how the iconic helmer envisaged it as possible.
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...when Roy delivers his rain-soaked rooftop soliloquy to Deckard. An oddly beautiful and profoundly moving coda to a thrilling chase, even though we basically have no real idea what the mad bio-bot bugger is wittering about.
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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