nails6365 wrote:how about somebody to a fan review of his edit?
oh wow, yes... i watched this a few nights ago. i'm not sure that my movie reviewing skills are up to much. i'd certainly have to watch it again before i attempted that in any kind of serious way
what i remember of that one viewing, it was a nicely edited cut, with everything feeling in it's place, extra scenes included.
i think my main quibbles would be not the cut itself which was very good, but the authoring of the dvd which was, as the editor himself admits, a little rough around the edges still. nothing wrong with that though. to me part of the charm of blade runner is it is a little rough and flawed in places - it's set in a rough and flawed universe so that isn't really much of an issue
perhaps i had a couple problems because i ripped the disc to my hard drive and played it direct from the VIDEO_TS folder instead?
but anyway, i remember starting to watch and it skipped right past the intro and leon's VK test to deckard being picked up by gaff to go and see bryant. i thought that was a little unsual and shrugged my shoulders and continued with an open mind
i was left thinking it was a quite daring edit. the idea being to add some, but also take away. the film certainly works fine with the scene of holden being shot missing, although how much of that is down to my familiarity with the film i don't know. that scene is certainly replayed many times during the course of the film, although i'm not quite so blade runner obsessed yet that i've counted exactly how many times
one cut i remember quite distinctly though is when bryant is briefing deckard. pretty much all the replicant's are glossed over...was this to make way for the added scene with deckard reviewing the file in the spinner on the way to VK rachael? it makes sense for the same information to not be repeated and the cut worked fine
but yes, the whole missing leon scene. somehow the dvd ended up being authored so that each section of the film(15 in total) each had it's own timer, so i was never quite sure exactly the length of the entire film.
as i approached the end of the film i found there seemed to be a whole extra scene and was wondering if this wasn't one of the 'happy' ending put on there. i was off course, wrong.. for some reason the final scene was actually the intro and leon shooting scene, so it was in there, just out of sequence
aside from these slight technical glitches which i'm sure can easily be fixed, i liked this edit a whole lot. it very much in the spirit of an extended theatrical cut without the happy ending - we have some voiceover, plenty of added scenes, and no unicorn
the dvd title menu was very nicely done - making each option a photograph was a nice touch and very in keeping with the spirit of the movie
i really need to take another look at this again. i was tired when i watched it and i'm sure i missed some of the finer points. perhaps i'll also try to play it direct from the disc next time? tha might help me discern if there was anything i did that put everything out of sequence someone
yes, this was a good edit. well worth taking a look a at. definitely a worthy addition to anyone's blade runner collection