Blade Runner: The Penultimate Cut

Wow! This edit was beautiful and sounded amazing. I finally convinced my brother to watch a fan edit and this was his first experience. He loved it. We both did. Great work and creativity went into this version and I applaud the effort.

I can't believe how good this fanedit is. I have no words.

It looks amazing, it sounds amazing. This is the BEST way to watch this masterpiece. Masterful edit for a masterful movie.

Thanks TM2YC for doing this. As a fan of the cyberpunk genre and movies in general, thank you.

Blade Runner has never looked better, and kudos to TM2YC for the obviously intense labour of love on display here. With 30 (!) different audio tracks to choose from, I'll be revisiting this edition for years to come, but for my first go-round I watched one of the voiceover tracks and the narration clicked with me much more than it has in the past. Whether that's due to the striking visuals being given new life complementing the voiceover, or Scott's Final Cut editing choices wedded to the hard boiled inner monologue, I'm not sure, but this is a tremendous achievement, well deserving of its Best-of-2020 award.

There was a time when I watched my favourite movie once a year. Sure you could blame work and kids and all kinds of stuff for less and less viewings. But I think the real reason was the official Final Cut version. The cut itself is brilliant but its major drawback is of course the visual plane with its loss of natural colours and the loss of details in both dark and light areas. And if knowingly or not, I gradually lost appetite for Blade Runner. After all, Blade Runner is a visual film. Thanks to TM2YC this error has been rectified. It is a revelation to see this. It is a joy to discover things that have been buried in the poor contrast and brightness of the official Final Cut. It's pure enjoyment switching between the different audio tracks (father/fucker?) and hear the Paul Sammon commentary track to the visually best version there is. My favourite audio version is track 13, the Director's Cut multi-channel version from the 2007 BluRay discs which is not as boomy as the Final Cut audio. And of course: More than just nice-to-have is the isolated score track — I mean: Seriously! The many years alone us soundtrack nerds tried to put together a decent Blade Runner soundtrack! And now we have everything in a neat package!

I'm not sure if the theatrical screening of the Final Cut I saw suffered from the same problems found in every home-movie release. But I'm just happy to have it in my collection now. Alongside the IMAX version of Blade Runner 2049 ... the official home-movie version is just drenched in yellow. D:

Happy to have it, yes. But the anti-elitist in me says: This should have a wider release. And as much recognition as possible! Recommend it to your Blade-Runner-friends™!

This is hands down my favorite version of Blade Runner now. After having spent 14 years with ‘The Final Cut’ I had gotten desensitized to the myriad of scenes that were darkened or washed out with aggressive lighting schemes, usually teal or blue-ish. No longer do I have to suffer through that with this masterful version. I won’t say that the original ‘Final Cut’ doesn’t have its own merits, but I’m a purist and prefer the natural color palette of ‘The Director’s Cut’ & older versions of the film. Pairing the superior color grading of these older releases with the ‘Final cut’ has resulted in a much better film that shows more of the liveliness and character of this dystopian world ; the color differences will have to be seen to be believed. It’s night & day, similar to how the Star Wars original trilogy kept getting distorted color gradings each release (I recommend 4K77 - ANH and 4K83 - ROTJ by Team Negative 1 for original theatrical colors). I’m ecstatic to have the version of Blade Runner that I thought existed, but has been obscured by lower resolution offerings. Brilliant work, thank you so much for your time & effort! Bonus is all of the optional audio tracks, I’ll make use of the isolated score when I want to fall asleep to the movie.