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Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Wed. 01/02 | 7:00PM @ The Paramount Theatre (Downtown)

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Ridley Scott’s seminal dystopic science-fiction noir Blade Runner is slipperier than a greased-up Replicant, repeatedly disappearing for a few years before re-emerging in a brand-new cut. Audiences have already seen the awkward narration and infuriatingly happy ending excised for the 1992 director’s cut, a move that restored some of the movie’s quiet grandeur. Now comes the promise of Scott’s final cut, an extended version that reportedly includes added scenes, more violence, cleaned-up audio, and even restaged stunts. In the
film—loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?—a grizzled, cranky Harrison Ford (is there any other kind?) reluctantly tracks a rogue group of synthetic humans, although the plot is really secondary to Scott’s masterfully cynical vision of scorched-earth cityscapes swallowed whole by corrupt corporations.
(Through Jan. 6)

— TheOnion