Saw this today at the Alamo. Alamo has been showing 1982 movies all summer, but this was not technically the movie that came out in 1982. That 1982 version featured a voice-over narration and footage leftover from the opening of The Shining in a final sequence showing Deckard/Rachel escaping the dark, dank city of LA. This version dropped all of that, and is arguably the best version of the film.
One thing that has always bothered me about Blade Runner, that I've never been able to determine in repeated viewings of all of the versions of the movie, is this - at the end, Roy Baty addresses Rick Deckard by name without having ever been introduced or through any kind of dialogue, the audience being made aware that Baty knew the detective's name. Seems a bit of an oversight, unless I have just missed it in the XXXXXXXX number of times I've watched it.
And there was a preview to a "new" movie coming Labor Day weekend. Jaws. In 3D. I'll likely pass on seeing that in 3D (saw Jaws 3D in 1983, it was terrible). But man, the theater had the volume cranked up, and the John Williams music was just so damn awesome.
One thing that has always bothered me about Blade Runner, that I've never been able to determine in repeated viewings of all of the versions of the movie, is this - at the end, Roy Baty addresses Rick Deckard by name without having ever been introduced or through any kind of dialogue, the audience being made aware that Baty knew the detective's name. Seems a bit of an oversight, unless I have just missed it in the XXXXXXXX number of times I've watched it.
And there was a preview to a "new" movie coming Labor Day weekend. Jaws. In 3D. I'll likely pass on seeing that in 3D (saw Jaws 3D in 1983, it was terrible). But man, the theater had the volume cranked up, and the John Williams music was just so damn awesome.