Which version of Blade Runner should I watch?

Final Cut is to Blade Runner as Justice League is to the Snyder Cut. (They both reflect the directors original versions of the films)

LightsCameraJake

Final cut from 2007 is the best (better quality, better story, reflects Ridley Scotts original Vision)

Ramedes

Would have loved for a David Fincher movie to have made it. Maybe next time

Krusty “Topher”

I just watched Final Cut a few days ago. It was great!

Krusty “Topher”

Basically it breaks down like this Theatrical Release easier story to follow as Harrison just tells you it, Final cut best version of the film but harder to follow.

Bret

haha well past millennial age...Ford was pissed and deliberately did a bad job with the voice over which itself was forced on Scott by the producers...There's a reason for so many versions...Scott hated the theatrical cut and with good reason...

Louis Ferdinand Celine

Auto-millennial reaction. If they weren't even born yet when the movie came out, of course they're gonna like the newest version.

Henchman Twenty1

Simple rule is... if you hear Ford doing voice over narration... remove from player... and for the good of all humanity... burn it...

Louis Ferdinand Celine

Thank you everyone for your input! I watched this film in the theater, Rated "R" at the time, and I was not yet old enough, so I snuck in! ::wink:: Eventually I've seen every version, and I prefer the "final cut" when I rewatch, and I was going to suggest the same in this poll. But you've convinced me that the theatrical version is what Cassie should watch. It's the version I was introduced to, and if it was as terrible as folks say, it never would have inspired me. It's designed to be accessable to a wider audience, it's got the kind of explanations needed for folks to better understand this strange world, and complicated story. If, and that's a big IF, Cassie loves this film so much that she wants to watch it over and over, she can easily watch the other cuts, then decide for herself which is best.

Jon Johns

Just kidding of course but you have to watch 2049 at least afterwards

Matt

You should read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep then watch all 5 versions of the movie then watch the 3 short films then watch 2049

Matt

Disagree all you want. It doesn't alter my position. Perhaps you weren't alive to see the original release. To answer your last statement: Neither the Directors Cut, not the Final Cut Existed when I saw the movie. And if the Directors Cut OR the Final Cut were the first version you saw - you've never experienced as it was it originally released. And you never can at this point. You can watch it...but you can't "see it for the first time"...having seen it in other release forms. Personally - the voice over has one of the best lines in the movie. I missed it when I saw later versions.

Disagree. We know now that the studio interference ruined the vision. the voice over is terrible. Why would u ever want to watch anything other than the directors true vision ( or as close as we can get)

Jake Waters

For this film I'd go with the Theatrical Release, then I'd watch the Final Cut after. There is A LOT to absorb with this film, and the Theatrical Release will allow you to become more familiar with what you are seeing before the minutiae that makes the "Final Cut" special to hard-core fans would be completely lost on you while you're still trying to get comfortable in the world. The "Extended Edition" and "Director's Cut" of films often just add scenes, but in this case it actually changes the storyline

Sean Novack

While the Final Cut is listed as "The Best" I would go for the way it first hit the audiences in the original 1982 release! You can only see a movie for the first time once. If you see the last iteration of the film you see it after many years of thought and changes. But the dialog, the various scenes dropped or added will alter your experience of how the movie first hit the original audiences. You can always watch the Final Cut later and compare them, but it you start with that, you'll never experience it like the original audiences got the chance to.

I'm voting final because at this point it's a wrap...

Celeste Collins

I'm voting Theatrical mainly because it has voiceover narration and the film's story might be a bit inaccessible for viewers who aren't regular science fiction fans.

Patrick Flanagan