Agent Cooper wrote:BADMIKE-
Where do you see the complete Twin Peaks for sale?
To my knowledge, only season one, minus the pilot, has been released on DVD (in region one).  I'd love the whole series.  I'm a bit of a fan, if you can believe it.

http://www.amazon.com/Twin-Peaks-Defini ... 571&sr=8-1

There you go.

Agent Cooper wrote:BADMIKE-
Where do you see the complete Twin Peaks for sale?
To my knowledge, only season one, minus the pilot, has been released on DVD (in region one).  I'd love the whole series.  I'm a bit of a fan, if you can believe it.

Sorry I should have guessed you were a fan...duh!

I let Kingofpain handle the hard stuff, like the links to Amazon..sounds like a pretty sweet deal through them, $35 off the price.  I'm going to save up a bit and get it myself.  Nice they finally included the pilot with the main seasons episodes.

It's impossible to relate the "Twin Peaks" effect to you young'uns that weren't sitting in front of the TV that night in 1989 (1990? Can't remember).  It's the only show pilot I've ever watched that I immediately REWATCHED (through the miracle of VCR taping technology), then watched AGAIN the next night (as my brother hadn't seen it, I taped it for him to watch), and it still was amazing. Nowadays, with all the Lost/24 crazy stuff on TV, it's not quite the bombshell it was then (in the days when the Golden Girl's characters going through menopause was "cutting edge"), but still pretty incredible stuff.

Mike B.

Speaking back to the Blade Runner discussion....

There has already been a director's cut.  Does this mean that the director unreasonably censored himself in his own re-cut of his own movie?

I prefer the theatrical version with the much-derided detective-style voiceovers.  I think the narration in Deckard's voice adds a great deal to both the feel and the meaning of the story.

The director's cut is a darker story, but it also leaves us hanging and deletes Deckard's final monologue, which is some of the best writing in the script.

FormCritic wrote:Speaking back to the Blade Runner discussion....

There has already been a director's cut.  Does this mean that the director unreasonably censored himself in his own re-cut of his own movie?

Not sure what his reason is, perhaps he decided that after a period of time, there were still improvements that could be made.  Often films are limited by time, budget, and the committments of cast & crew.  Besides you know what it is like if you revisit any major project you have 'finished'.  It is difficult to resist going back after a period of time, and tinkering with it.  Or maybe Ridley Scott is just looking to move house.  

FormCritic wrote:I prefer the theatrical version with the much-derided detective-style voiceovers.  I think the narration in Deckard's voice adds a great deal to both the feel and the meaning of the story.

Actually I do too, even though I think that the critical consensus is that the voiceover makes for a weaker film.

killjoy32 wrote:
well this apparently has everything in it for the first time and with it all being restored to its true original form, you will apparently see properly for the first time that Deckard is also a replicant too. thats what is rumoured anyway, but you know how these things generally work.

i've been holding off watching bladerunner again just for now as i want to save it for this release....

Al

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The director's cut reveals...albeit very subtly...that Deckard is a replicant.

I think it was just the entire juxtaposition of the entire scene to the rest of the movie.  It just seems out of place.

Never asked anyone why they laughed, though.

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KILLJOY-
Alot of people think Deckard is a Replicant.  But I have to disagree.
He really can't be a replicant.  The film leaves it to make you wonder, but if you think about it:

1. If D was a replicant, he wouldn't get thrown around like a ragdoll by the other replicants when he engages them in combat.  The replicants are obviously many times stronger him, and overpower his puny human strength easily.

2.  When Roy breaks Deckard's fingers in the deserted building, Deckard bleeds real red blood and this obviously causes him intense pain.  Replicants don't feel pain.  (Remember Roy grabbing the eye out of the Liquid Nitro tank in the plastic surgeon's office?)

3. When Deckard is climbing around and through the deserted building trying to evade Roy, he becomes fatigued and is obviously winded.  Replicants don't get winded!  And why run through the rooms of the building when you can take a shortcut and just tear through a wall or two like Roy does?  Because you can't if you're just a human.

4. In the last scene, as Deckard is holding onto the building many floors from the street, he eventually becomes exhausted and loses his grip, and would have fallen when Roy saves him.
Replicants don't get tired of holding on to things!

1)  Consider how hard it is to kill Deckard...including having one replicant try to twist his neck around to no avail.  

Priss tries to twist his head off, but can't.

Zhora tries to strangle him, but quickly gives up.

Either one of them could have almost instantly killed Deckard...just as Roy killed his creator simply by squeezing his head.

This leaves two possiblities:  

a)  Deckard is hard to kill.

or

b) Priss and Zhora have different abilities than Roy...which would also mean that replicant Deckard might have different abilities.

And replicants do in fact have blood of some sort.  All of them bleed in some way, including Roy.

2-4)  Deckard is a replicant made to hunt replicants....he is a better model and more humanlike.  We don't actually see him fall or suffer any other form of lethal damage, so we don't know what would happen.  He's a special model, just like Rachel.

One might ask..."If the Nexus 6 models are the latest type of replicant, how can Deckard be a "more human than human" updated model?"

The answer is that Deckard does not predate the Nexus 6 models.  He was only recently created...like Rachel...as an advanced prototype.  His memories of a career as a Blade Runner are false memories.

5)  There are a couple of broad hints in the director's cut version:

Deckard has a dream about a unicorn.  Apparently, it is a dream shared by all replicants.  

The policeman played by Edward James Olmos knows this...which is why, in the final scene, Deckard finds that the cop has left a unicorn origame figure outside Deckard's door.  It is also why Deckard nods in understanding as he realizes the truth about himself.

The director's cut of the film ends as Deckard closes the apartment door.  The nod about the the unicorn is the final revelation.

Also, both Deckard and Rachel can play the same song on the piano.  Deckard tells us that he dreamed the song and then wrote it down.  Rachel is able to play it spontaneously.  It is another memory shared by all replicants.

7)  Most importantly, director Ridley Scott has stated, in an interview for the film's 20th anniversary, that Deckard is indeed a replicant.

All of this departs sharply from the Philip K. Dick storyline, but that is hardly a tragedy.  In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep there are several moments when the main character suspects that he may be a replicant...a twist that would be typical of Dick's writing.

I thought Kingdom of Heaven was alright...

red_bus wrote: but I just find as I get older that my quality tolerance threshold goes up and up - for books, films, lots of stuff (including rpgs)

Absolutely agree 100% ....and I thought (and so did my wife ) it was just me!!!!