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The movie was really good. The book was also very good, but quite a different story. Same thing goes for Minority Report.

Never seen it in it's entirety

culturejam wrote:The movie was really good. The book was also very good, but quite a different story. Same thing goes for Minority Report.

Agreed, though I have yet to read Minority Report.

Scanner was also awesome.

smile_man wrote:Agreed, though I have yet to read Minority Report.

It kicks ass. Totally different plot and ending, but the premise is the same.

smile_man wrote:Scanner was also awesome.

It was a great novel. I was only so-so on the movie.

I'm a bit of a Phil Dick junkie.

never seen, but have it - just don't have time to watch...

but the book... i read it for 10 times AT LEAST one of my very favourite sci-fi books ever

WOOOOOOOOOO! on all dat!

I'm a huge PKD fan, and I will second culturejam in his of the short story "Minority Report". Only Philip K. Dick could weave a plot point that intricately... it's like it almost doesn't make sense, but it's put together so well, and the conclusion is SWEET. Such a great example of what a simple sci-fi idea can be.

The film is alright, but has barely anything to do with the original story. And I hated the ending of the film... yuck.

There was another PKD thread a few months ago... I'll see if I can dig that up, because there are a ton of good recommendations in that one, too. VALIS, Scanner, Palmer Eldritch, etc. EDIT: Nevermind; the aforementioned thread devolved into a gay meme-fest

Also, yeah, "Blade Runner" the film and "Electric Sheep" the book, while again almost completely different, are both two of my all-time favourites.

RIGHT!

C

Scanner is my fav. book, I also really like the movie, though a lot of other people don't, it makes so much more sense if you've read the book first.

I have a copy of Valis sitting on the shelf next to my laptop right but I'm too tied up in a diff book to read any of, I really want to though.

If I could live anywhere I would choose Bladerunner, the most beautiful sets of all time, ALL TIME.

smile_man wrote:Scanner is my fav. book, I also really like the movie, though a lot of other people don't, it makes so much more sense if you've read the book first.

I have a copy of Valis sitting on the shelf next to my laptop right but I'm too tied up in a diff book to read any of, I really want to though.

If I could live anywhere I would choose Bladerunner, the most beautiful sets of all time, ALL TIME.

ALL GOOD. If you like Scanner that much, you'll dig VALIS. It's weird. It's like if Scanner got super self-referential and took a bunch of Substance D itself.

And you're reading Infinite Jest, too!

Keep up the good works.

C

CBA713 wrote:

ALL GOOD. If you like Scanner that much, you'll dig VALIS. It's weird. It's like if Scanner got super self-referential and took a bunch of Substance D itself.

I heard they were going to make it into a movie or something.

I love this movie. We have the box set and the poster, and by we I mean her, which is one reason why I said "shit yeah, let's move in together."

I like the book better though. But it's completely different. Like vag v. ween different. Sure, both go together, but they really are distinct.

There's a lot of Valis in the Matrix, being both explorations of gnostic christianity.

when the movie first came out it was truly stunning visually, and the exteriors are still remarkable for a future-visionary film in the way they graft an electronic superstructure onto old LA...most "futuristic" films assume a total replacement of the old, but the BR film's depiction is much truer to the reality of how high tech is integrating into everyday life. you can see it happening in LA now, with the Jumbotron billboards that change four times a minute at major intersections.

however, like most film adaptations, it didn't exactly reflect PKD's original. back in the 70s, when i was reading sci-fi, Dick's work was all in print in cheap/remaindered paperback and so i read a metric ton of same. i enjoyed the concepts, but after awhile i wore out on his prose style, which has a kind of flat Midwestern Ray Bradbury tone that i find tedious. i think that as Dick's concepts got more complex (and his amphetamine use increased), his prose got worse and the books increasingly didn't hold together well; as such, my favorites of his novels are The Man in the High Castle and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

PKD was immensely happy with how closely the world and characters of Blade Runner reflected his imagination.