Is the newest edition of Blade Runner worth the money?!
Question: I'm probably going to buy it anyway, I just want to hear what other people who've seen it think.
Answers: I'm probably going to buy it anyway, I just want to hear what other people who've seen it think.
Oh yes, yes, yes!!! I just got hold of the 5-disc collector's boxset last week, and it's gold! I mean, I am biased as I'm a huge fan of the film, but it's excellent.
Basically, you have a pristine restored transfer of the film in the 'Final Cut', with the sharpest picture quality I've ever seen, revealing details and colours that I had never noticed before, and also the remastered sound is unbelievable, again with small sounds and layers of music that I had never heard until now (because all the prints that had been shown on television or in the theaters over the years were inferior and mediocre in terms of quality).
Then there's that incredible three and a half hour long documentary 'Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner', which discloses so much new info and an amazing amount of new test and behind the scenes footage, plus trims, portions of alternate, extended and deleted scenes, that aren't even included in the bunch of over 45 minutes of deleted scenes featured in the 4th. disc of this set. There are more featurettes on that 4th. disc, about author Phil Dick, the graphic and costume design of the movie, and many others and even more material.
Then there are the other 4 versions of 'Blade Runner', including the famous Work Print. And you get 8 glossy reproductions of original artwork, conceptual drawings and storyboards, that have photos and explanatory text on the back - this is the Region 2 carboard 5-disc edition, cos I didn't get the tin box as it had already sold out.
In short, there's so much material here that it easily makes this edition rank alongside the best DVD releases of recent years.
yep
Why not save your money and wait till it comes out on cable and just record it?