re: Blade Runner fans What's the best version?

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I have the collectors edition with all the versions of the movie. Personally I like the original 1982 theatrical release with voice over.

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Me too. Five different versions for those of us who have nothing better to do than watch five...different...versions...of...the...same...movie.

I don't mind voice-overs -- they're actually very much in keeping with noir -- but I personally think the BR ones were clumsily written and delivered. But I'll allow that's just an opinion. However, I hate the "happy ending" of the theatrical cut. Nothing wrong with happy endings in general, but this one felt completely shoehorned in and was a jarring change of tone from the rest of the movie. It felt very "Oh, and by the way, the themes and emotional resonances and motivations we spent the entire movie establishing? frick 'em. Things are lookin' up for Our Heroes!" It simply didn't work for me and would have actually lowered my opinion of BR from All-Time Great to Pretty Good had I not seen the Director's Cut before I saw the Theatrical Cut and thus knew there was a better version out there.