Original Blade Runner: Original theatrical cut is the best.
Specially when they made the final cut look like any other digital movie with the cyan filter. Is everyone deaf, dumb and blind?? Why do they not see this?
shareFor me it's about the voiceover, some voiceover I love, like Barry Lyndon, Little Children, Querelle, even American Beauty and especially Terrence Mallick' s films. The voiceover in (if I recall correctly) the theatrical Blade Runner always struck me as stilted and offputting. I've always felt it took something away from the visuals, and while I agree some of the filters in the final cut are undesireable, I prefer all versions that lack the voiceover for this film in particular.
Aside from a few bad lines the voice over is fine to me, and it also gives insight into Deckard's character. The only problem would be that it's a little nonsensical in the sense that the movie doesn't have a narrator, so it's kinda strange, not sure if it would be valid, artistically, but I much prefer it over Scott's charlatanry and the utter distortion of the film's color and moods for the predictable orange and teal digital filters.
shareVoice over is THE BEST to me, because it MAKES the whole movie into a future noir detective film. That's all I ever saw for decades, that's what released in theaters, so that IS the main package to me. Like Star Wars: was "this way" in the theater, that should be THE MAIN version. That's just me. All Lucas's dorking around, and Scott's updates are just reedits of the original.
shareI think you can work with and shape your vision as long as you want, it just depends which cuts you like. Since the actual edit of BL is more or less the same, with just aesthetic differences and most notably the voice over, I side with Scott on that film. Lucas did undeniably trash his series and the final Special Editions v the Despecialized is like night and day. I agreed with basically no changes to that original trilogy. Blade Runner I didn't feel was as marred and at least all versions had an official high quality release, so on the rare occasion I do want the voiceover I can crack open my Deckard briefcase and watch theatrical. Does European cut have more violence and keep the VO? I kind of like the unicorn thing too and that's not in the theatrical, and that's pretty much where all of my suspicians of Deckard's replicant status originate.
shareI don't mind the voiceover in Bladerunner, as that is a film noir standard.
I dislike voiceover in Terrence Mallick films.
The voiceover in Dune was not good either.