Blade Runner proves that Movies can be true ART and Hauer is a performing artist of the highest order. I can't wait for that music to raise the hairs on the back of my neck and those amazing visuals to fill my eyes,

Blade Runner is and always will be an untouchable Sci-Fi masterpiece and Ridley Scott at his absolute pinacle.

Why are THOSE the movies that fall into your (made-up) continuity? Why not include OUTLAND or MOON 44 or SOLO or THE TERMINATOR films somehow while you're at it??

But seriously folks haven't we had more than a few versions to date?

Via Wiki:

It has been suggested that Ford intentionally performed the voice-over poorly, in the hope it would not be used,[40] but recent interviews contradict this:[41] In an interview with Playboy magazine in 2002, Ford clarified: "I delivered it to the best of my ability, given that I had no input. I never thought they'd use it. But I didn't try and sandbag it. It was simply bad narration."

God, I love that stuff!

I used to think the idea of Deckard being a replicant was cool, especially after first hearing about it, but the more times I've watched the different versions of the film with that in mind, the more pallid an alternative it seems to be.

First of all, the biggest obvious tip-off for Deckard's replicantitude is that shot of the unicorn dream (followed up by Gaff's origami unicorn suggesting that he knows Deckard's dreams). However, this is a poorly added and clumsy sequence which lays bare how much of a second thought the whole idea was. Not that I blame Scott, since getting the geeks into froth-o-mode has increased the interest in the film many times over.

Besides the half-assedness of the replicant idea's implementation, the thing that speaks mostly for Deckard's human status is simply the fact that it makes for a much better film and a much more satisfying emotional journey for the characters.

I mean, what's the fucking point of the scene on the rooftop where Batty waits to see if Deckard will whimper and drop to the streets or defy him to the end (and spit at him, which he eventually does) if he's a replicant? The artificial Batty, who obviously has more of a heart and soul than any human, is in his final moments of life trying to teach the emotionally and morally dead human Deckard a thing or two about the value of life itself. Blade Runner isn't half as profound if you allow that Deckard is a replicant.

Boiled down to its essence, Blade Runner isn't about how anyone could be a replicant, but that the replicants are quite easy to detect because they are so different from us in ways the humans of that particular future don't seem to grasp. Ultimately, this is why they need the Voigt-Kampff test -- humans have lost the ability to feel and empathize themselves.

"More human than human."