Blade Runner Final Cut (Uh, "spoilers?")
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eyebeamsSaw it, listening to the second set of commentaries (Scott's is kind of boring, so I switched mid-way through his drone about motion-control cameras).
Impressions:
* The colour restoration is gorgeous. It's night and day in spots. The matte paintings and models spring out from their former murkiness. Sometimes this tests the illusion a bit but it's so damn stylish you can forgive it.
* Many of the unfortunate bits (the edit of Leon smacking aside Deckard's gun, for instance) are gone.
* It's a bit tighter, sometimes to its detriment. The iconic scene of Roy Batty looking at the stars is a bit truncated.
* This viewing really gave me a sense that the main characters are naive. There's an almost incompetent innocence about Deckard when it comes to emotions, which from one point of view is telling. It puts the disturbing Deckard/Rachel scene in a new context for me.
* Am I the only one who sees the unicorn as pattern recognition in Leon's photo?
* The Greedo Shot First Moment: "I want more life, Father."
Impressions:
* The colour restoration is gorgeous. It's night and day in spots. The matte paintings and models spring out from their former murkiness. Sometimes this tests the illusion a bit but it's so damn stylish you can forgive it.
* Many of the unfortunate bits (the edit of Leon smacking aside Deckard's gun, for instance) are gone.
* It's a bit tighter, sometimes to its detriment. The iconic scene of Roy Batty looking at the stars is a bit truncated.
* This viewing really gave me a sense that the main characters are naive. There's an almost incompetent innocence about Deckard when it comes to emotions, which from one point of view is telling. It puts the disturbing Deckard/Rachel scene in a new context for me.
* Am I the only one who sees the unicorn as pattern recognition in Leon's photo?
* The Greedo Shot First Moment: "I want more life, Father."
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Date: 2007-12-27 02:19 pm (UTC)I'd say he's more Satan in Paradise Lost or perhaps a very angry Adam returning to the Garden of Eden, looking for the tree of life.