Was Blade Runner actually a good movie?

[Local Trouble]

Brilliant movie. It made me actually feel for artificial life, which never has happened in other films covering the subject.

Not even WALL-E?

[E. Shaw]

Brilliant movie. It made me actually feel for artificial life, which never has happened in other films covering the subject.

Not even WALL-E?

Haha I did love Wall-E, but Bladerunner made its AI life feel real and you develop empathy for their desires to live and have rights.

[Local Trouble]

I wonder if the theatrical release of Blade Runner is better or worse than the theatrical release of Kingdom of Heaven.

[SiL]

Because of the voiceover?

The voiceover, the hamfisted ending...

It bombed for good reason and needed multiple revisions to make good for a reason.

[BlueMarsalis79]

It was always good, just had bad elements.

[SiL]

It was always bad, just had good elements that let people tolerate the bad.

Later revisions trimmed the bad while accentuating the good.

[Local Trouble]

😱

[SM]

I didn't mind the voiceover. Gave it an old school PI vibe. The happy ending was beyond awful.

[Wweyland]

It was, but having just read Do Androids Dream Of Electic Sheep (again), the book is slightly better.

[SiL]

I didn't mind the voiceover. Gave it an old school PI vibe. The happy ending was beyond awful.

The voiceover could've been good, but you can hear Ford is delivering lines at gunpoint and it adds nothing.

[SM]

I thought it fit his weariness.

[E. Shaw]

I didn't mind the voiceover. Gave it an old school PI vibe. The happy ending was beyond awful.

It was tragic, he knows she will die like Roy, presumably.

[SM]

Deckard says she won't die like Roy.

[SiL]

Which is part of what makes it a bad movie.

[Local Trouble]

Which is part of what makes it a bad movie.

Is the final cut still a bad movie?