10 Films That Suffered In The Editing Room

It was only a matter of time before one of the most edited movies in cinematic history made its way onto this list. However, you would probably be right in saying that the subsequent cuts of Blade Runner - after its initial theatrical release in 1982 - substantially improved the film.

So instead, this entry will focus on a piece of crappy editing that was held responsible for the first iteration's fairly limp ending.

Forced into recording dialogue that would help spoon-feed The Ladd Company's (them again) rosey vision of the film's conclusion to the audience, Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott intentionally did a terrible job on the vocal work in the hope that this same studio would deem it unusable.

They didn't and the jarringly monotonous narration was kept in the theatrical release, along with the closing image of Rick Deckard and the replicant, Rachael, riding off into the sunset together.

Numerous other cuts of the genre-defining picture would be willed into existence over the coming years and Scott's own cuts hinted at a more ambiguous/open ending, which involved Deckard himself being revealed as a replicant.

Luckily the uninspired 'happy ending' of the theatrical release was eventually undone, but Blade Runner definitely suffered for a while before Scott decided to take back his movie in 1992 (Director's Cut)...and then really take it back in 2007 (Final Cut).