My wife watched the "director's cut" (circa '91) without me and expressed confusion. I explained to her that sci fi nerds bag on the theatrical cut and its substandard narration, but then, they've all seen the substandard narration. Then I put in my VHS tape of the international theatrical cut. "Oh." "Ohh!" "Oh?" "Oh...." Die-hard fans of Blade Runner have a hard time admitting that it's a flawed work, but the execution of the script is lacking in many ways (and the script is lacking in more). Blade Runner is, more than anything, a miraculous convergence of pressure and time rendered as cinema, a visual aesthetic and a lyrical narrative that form something far greater than its parts. But if you sit and watch it objectively without hitting yourself over the head with it again and again and again, the flaws take on prominence.