1. Blade Runner
Blade Runner is one of the finest science fiction films ever made. Ridley Scotts version of the movie is a neo-noir classic, filled with complexity and incredible performances, as well as stunning visuals. Its the story of a burnt-out hunter of replicantsartificial humansnamed Rick Deckard. Hes brought in to track down and eliminate a group of cunning, brutal replicants who recently escaped. Its one of Harrison Fords finest performances and one of Scotts greatest achievements as a director. And once again, proving the stupidity of test audiences and studio executives, negative response to test screenings led to studio butchering of the movie. The entire subplot that Deckard may himself be a replicant was completely removed and Ford was forced to record a voiceover narration that says Rachael was programmed to never self-terminate. In essence, it amounted to and they lived happily ever after. This narration was played over a scene of driving through the mountains, a scene that was never actually filmed by Scott
it was leftover footage of the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubricks The Shining. Ford has made no secret that he hated recording the narration and its obvious. Fords narration sounds like he had to drink himself stupid just to get up the nerve to walk into the recording studio. But this is one case where the directors version is still available. There was an unauthorized cut not approved by Scott, and that led to a rushed directors cut when the film was first on DVD, although Scott was still not satisfied. Then, in 2007, Scott finally got to see his vision of the film realized in
Blade Runner: The Final Cut. The terrible narration and the completely bizarre scene from
The Shining are both gone, and restored is the implication that Deckard is a replicant. Now the movie ends as intended, with the elevator doors closing on Deckard, Rachael, and their ambiguous future.