Blade Runner - Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD, 2007, 5-Disc Set)

This is the long awaited Definitive Ultimate Collector's Edition of one of the most amazing Science fiction movies of our time and one of Harrison Fords best performances ever. It also includes Rutger Hauer's best ever screen performance. There are very fine performances by all of the other members of this all star cast of Ridley Scott's most under rated film. It includes all versions of the film, so no matter whether you like the original theatrical version with the classic "Detective story" style narration by Harrison Ford, the more inclusive and gory "European version" of the same that was released in limited form on Beta Hi-Fi in the states back in the eighties, or the Director's Cut, they are all there along with the new "Final Cut" version. Plus you get all of the cool extras with this package that would make any replicant or human very happy! I have been waiting for this for many years along with all of the other fans that have built, maintained and visited the Blade Runner websites. Thank you to all who put aside their differences to make this finally happen! This package is worth far more than the full retail price.

Blade Runner - This is Ridley Scott at his best. What a great story. If you don't know anything about this movie you need to just see it. Other movies have tried to copy this plot but this is the original.

When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh.

In celebration of Blade Runner's 25th anniversary, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version. Blade Runner: The Final Cut, spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements and scanned at 4K resolution, will contain never-before-seen added/extended scenes, added lines, new and improved special effects, director and filmmaker commentary, an all-new 5.1 Dolby® Digital audio track and more. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version.

Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, muderous replicants - and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. This incredible 2-Disc Set features the definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott's legendary Sci-Fi classic and the in-depth feature length documentary "Dangerous Days" and features all new 5.1 Audio.

I've been looking for this special collector's suitcase edition DVD set for a long long time,but never had a closer good price range till now.I'm glad and thankful for the seller,who made this possible for me.
I'm a big fan for the movie science I first saw it in the 80's.I always tried collecting media from the market as possible.First the VHS tapes,later the DVD's as well.But this version includes so much extra information and footage what I never know about this,sometimes hardly criticized and never fully aprechiated film classic.I absolutely agree with other people who seeing, the BR is not for everyone,but the legacy for this film is unstoppable, and I'm sure we gonna hear more and more about this futuristic movie classic.Specially from fans all around the world.
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For anyone who loves Blade Runner, this is THE Ultimate Collection! It has EVERY version of the film
on DVD-most, like the original 1982 version, was never before available on DVD. Also includes the
never before available Workprint version that kickstarted the whole resurgence of interest in this
iconic existential classic. The pinnacle is Ridley Scott's "Final Cut" of the film. This is the way he
always wanted his film to be seen. He finally had the time to polish his labor of love & get it right.
Now it is cleaned up, digitally remastered, scenes & dialog fixed soundtrack pristine from original
source tapes & the odd added shot here & there to do this Masterpiece of Cinema justice, once &
for all. Also, tons of extras:documentaries, deleted scenes, Dangerous Days documentary with
comments & interviews with cast,crew,technicians,wizards,writers,producers & Ridley himself. I
believe the bonus features are over 5 hours! Also, miniture replicas of spinner, unicorn, production
art reproductions by Syd Mead & enough to keep any Blade Runner junkie satisfied for weeks.
This is one of the most Deluxe & nicely designed packages I have ever seen. It is worth every penny!
Enjoy! I know I will for months to come. I am in Heaven.

Very neat little set, especially if you can find it for $60 or less. Nice extras: little metal 'origami' unicorn, spinner car model, movie stills and drawings. But the best is are the discs. Remastered 'final cut' is beautiful. But, if I had to do it all over again, I would be satisfied with just the remastered movie and would have saved the extra money on extras I don't really need.

OK - I'm a huge Blade Runner fan, and I got this attractive 5-disc briefcase collector's set. Yes...it absolutely is cool, and why wouldn't a Blade Runner nut like myself not want one? It turns out that the original US theatrical release, and the "final cut" is all you really need. The other versions aren't that different. I was kind of hoping that in this ultimate collector's set, there would be a sort of Blade Runner Redux - some 3 hour version of the film with EVERYTHING put in. NOPE. But you DO get a hell of a lot of Blade Runner goodies here.

The special features are indeed interesting, with a number of the outtakes and deleted scenes worked into the little documentaries. But it makes me feel that we aren't done yet with Blade Runner. I.E. There are screen tests of other actresses doing the parts of Rachel and Pris...then it says the tests done by Hannah and Young had the audio parts lost. So? Put 'em in anyway.

Really - if you're a fan about Blade Runner, this big-ass fancy collection can't disappoint. Although, the collector's set trinkets are kinda lame. The toy spinner is neat, I love the small (origami ??) unicorn. I don't see the point of the Syd Mead art cards and the little Harrison Ford 3-D action thing. I think this set could have been done up much better...but I don't know what fully remains from the original Blade Runner archive vaults, and what they're allowed to use. Mock versions of the replicant files seen in the movie would have been cool. Movie stills, or bios on everyone involved would have been neat.

I could be here all day. I'm happy with the Blade Runner collector's set...and I think every fan could design their own. I paid $50 USD to buy it and have it shipped. I'll only feel truly happy about aquiring this set if there are no more collector's sets, or versions of the film released....and this briefcase set IS the final chapter in the Blade Runner saga. Only time will tell.

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The final cut rules! All three versions, with subtle variations, explore timeless paradoxes while taking us on a richly detailed oddessy through the blurred lines between good and evil, human and not so human. Can't beat the Vangelis sound tract.

I also picked up on a couple "Alien" vibes. We are shown visions of decay and destitution on the streets in contrast to the protected luxury in the penthouses. A depressing futuristic 21st century world is depicted along the lines of the "Alien" series - mega corporations that rule the world. There is rich detail, like the delapidated 1920's Art-Deco high rise where Sebastian lived and imposing post-modern contemporary sky-scrapers of the Tyrell Corporation headquarters. There are flying cars ("Aliens" had a flying tank), Voight-Kampff breathing lie-detector machines, an artificial owl and boa constrictor and a teched-out bachelor apartment all add to the realism.

BRAIN V. BRAWN: In the climactic ending, the shades of grey hero, Rick Deckard,(a campy Indy-like performance by H. Ford)shows how it feels to "live in fear" while climbing the walls to escape from Roy, the "prodigal son" and leader of the pack (terrifyingly portrayed by a buff Rutger Hauer in a full length black leather trench coat) who has just gruesomely murdered Tyrell, the psychotic genius creator and Roy's symbolic father. Roy doesn't get mad. He just wants some respect. Do you blame him? Deck, "not very sporting(ly)" popped two in the back of Zhora as she tried to escape and ditto to the chest of Pris after she does a Kathy Rigby style WWF leglock around his neck. However, in the end, our futuristic Frankenstein's monster doesn't take his vengance, but only wonders why. The universal question, I guess. Speaking rhetorically from the leaky flat roof beside a trapped and all but defeated Deckard, Roy kneels with arms spread downward, a final gesture of submission (like Jesus praying in the Garden to the Father: why hast Thou forsaken me?) and offers his own eulogy saying something like "I've done things... questionable things." Sci-fi dialogue greatness! Lucky Deck watches in shock as Roy's "light that shines twice as bright" goes dark.

BEAUTIES & BEASTS: The female roles are pleasingly if not briefly portrayed by 1981 all-American hotties: the exoticly clad Joanna Cassidy as Zhora and the lithe "pleasure model" Pris erotically created by Darryl Hannah. Remember she dated John John for a while? Those Kennedy guys! So what if the replicant femme fatales are more eye candy than substance? I say the violence is better balanced with some brief nudity. An 80's vintage look? Now about the beasts. Roy and his sidekick Leon are macho sociopathic soilder types. Leon's demise comes soon after Deck cowardly takes out Zhora early on. Ironically, Leon's asassin is a naive third female replicant, played by a seductive Sean Young, who only consciously confronts her synthetic reality after the murder and while being romanced by Deck. He knows the truth and put the moves on her anyway, but selfishly rationalizes his actions. Android love? The studio version shows them driving off into the sunset down Highway 1 with some cheesy voice over by Ford. Thank you, Hollywood. The final director's cut gives us a break and dares us to imagine the rest. Well done!

I wish Ford could have reprised Deckard in a sequal or two. Imagine some stories with Deck going back to LA and dishing some pay back to Tyrell's real and/or synthetic bad boys.

No negatives here! 5 versions covers all the bases and brief case carrier plus collectable memorabilia round out the set. I give it 5 stars out of 5!

I am one of those people who "got it" when Blade Runner first debuted in theaters. I was one of the first people in line to see it at the Bruin theater in Westwood. And I was one of the first people in line to see the director's cut many years later at the Fox Theater also in Westwood in Los Angeles. When I heard of this collector's set, it was a certainty that I HAD to buy it. At last I have every version of the movie, plus the work print. The background and "making of" discs make this set a dream for anyone who loves this incredible adaptation of Philip K. Dick's story. The work, dedication and vision of Ridley Scott are all evident in this collector's masterpeice, as are the relentless struggles to make and complete the film. This Collector's Edition kit is chock full of information, memorabilia and of course the variations of the movie itself. It is everything one could expect if you really love the film. I am completely satisfied with my purchase!

This is what you need. If you are a fan of Blade Runner.
Nice box and toys -- I will treasure this for as long as I can and try to take it with me when I go to meet my maker weather it be in the sky or in the factory of the bio-gods.