It's tops. See it. It's just devoid of the little hiccups and jumpy edits the earlier versions have. Image quality is gorgeous too. A little lighter, a lot clearer, I don't know what the heck they did but it was good.
I do agree that the doubt over Deckard's humanity is more effective than a definitive answer. Even watching the Final Cut I still manage to maintain a bit of doubt: Gaff is insinuating something, but he's not coming right out and saying it. Maybe Deckard's a replicant, maybe he's been used in memory extraction experiments and then had his memory of that erased, maybe Deckard's ex-wife told Gaff that Deckard talks in his sleep.
In the Final Cut Batty's line remains "I want more life, ***ker". I guess CB was talking about the Director's Cut there.
Edit: I had to go look it up, didn't I? Nnggh...I don't actually have a copy myself, and I started to doubt my memory. So Wikipedia says this:
When Batty confronts Tyrell, he says, "I want more life, father"; this is from the workprint version, an alternate take intended for—but never used—in television broadcasts of the film, as opposed to the original line, "I want more life, ****er." The line also has a noticeably deeper tonal quality than the previous versions.
But Wikiquote says this:
* I want more life, father.
o In the "Final Cut" version, the line above is "I want more life, ****er." The line also has a noticeably deeper tonal quality than the previous versions.
And now I definitively...can't remember.
