While I'm sure Blade Runner will likely win in a landslide, PKD hated it for the love story aspect that Hollywood added. Not necessarily the best, but what's your personal favorite?
Mods, I can't add a poll so you can this out..
Blade Runner (1982)
Total Recall (1990)
Screamers (1995)
Minority Report (2002)
Impostor (2002)
Paycheck (2003)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Next (2007)
Radio Free Albermuth (2010)
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
elohim wrote: PKD hated it for the love story aspect that Hollywood added.
where are you getting this from? he died before the movie was actually released, but there's this
and this quote pops up on wikipedia
He said, "I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for Blade Runner on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly." He also approved of the film's script, saying, "After I finished reading the screenplay, I got the novel out and looked through it. The two reinforce each other, so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy the movie and someone who started with the movie would enjoy the novel.
I hardly remember any of the specifics, but a general sense of creepiness still remains when I try to recall them, pre-cog bath-women screaming in exasperation and whatnot. this is a good thing.
and that great scene when he gets the implant removed was pure dick (kind of curious how many combinations of this unavoidable nh can be achieved without getting stale)
edit: btw impostor spelled wrong in poll, might be confusing because there is actually a new movie out called the imposter
DUDES! Came in here to vote for Minority Report. Not necessarily because it is the best, but because it doesn't get it's proper dues! That movie is so amazingly awesome!
elohim wrote: PKD hated it for the love story aspect that Hollywood added.
where are you getting this from? he died before the movie was actually released, but there's this
and this quote pops up on wikipedia
He said, "I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for Blade Runner on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly." He also approved of the film's script, saying, "After I finished reading the screenplay, I got the novel out and looked through it. The two reinforce each other, so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy the movie and someone who started with the movie would enjoy the novel.
Phil loved the special effects in Blade Runner. He got an advanced viewing before his death from Ridley. He even pointed out how they captured his dreamscape cinematically. However, he did point out to his friends that 'Do Androids' was Hollywoodized
Cash Rulz wrote:Adjustment Bureau has grown on me immensely, but that's because I'm a fag.
Not at all, I thought that movie was surprisingly good. A lot of the movies in this poll are awful adaptations' and otherwise.
Its definitely worth mentioning that while as different as I imagined it in my head from the novel, I did really enjoy Linklater's adaptation of 'A Scanner Darkly;' Downey Jr. and Woody make the film, though
this out..
Not at all, I thought that movie was surprisingly good. A lot of the movies in this poll are awful adaptations' and otherwise.
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