Movie Polls

What is your favorite movie based on or inspired by a Philip K. Dick story?

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I'm seeing that there are actually several more movies based on Philip K. Dick works to be coming out just in the next couple year including what looks lik a biopic on his life staring Paul Giamatti as Dick called The Owl in Daylight.  His works are certainly full of ideas, often sci-fi and psychological that attract filmmakers and story tellers.

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
Blade Runner
Confessions d'un Barjo (Confessions of a Crap Artist)
Impostor
Minority Report
Next
Paycheck
A Scanner Darkly
Screamers
Total Recall

Re:What is your favorite movie based on or inspired by a Philip K. Dick story?

Of this list, the only two I've for sure seen (as in, I may have seen parts of others but not the whole films) are Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly.  I've seen parts of Blade Runner and Total Recall, but I can't safely say they can be a favorite if I haven't seen or remember the whole film.  Of the two I've seen all of, Minority Report is the superior film on every level.  A Scanner Darkly was ambitious, but the acting was kind of terrible, and the rotoscoping technique was creative but, well, annoying.  And even though Minority Report features our favorite insane scientologist named Tom, he was convincing to the complete suspension of disbelief, the story behind that film is thoughtful, and the film itself was intense and interesting.  Plus, I'm an unabashed Spielberg fan.

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I've actually seen most of these, which is a first. Blade Runner is an amazing movie, easily the quintissential sci-fi-neo-noir (how many of those are there?), so that's the one I ultimately voted for. However, I liked A Scanner Darkly a lot because it was so trippy and so oddly detached, as though it were a drug-fueled indulgence in itself. I liked Minority Report, but I felt as though it owed so much to Blade Runner that I couldn't enjoy it as much as I might have.

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I like several of these, but Blade Runner would be at the top of my list from these choices...

Tom

P.S. The "Link a Movie" dialog box still is not working...

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Ack - I may be drummed out of the corps for saying this, but I can't say I really liked any of them.  Have only seen Blade Runner, Minority Report and Impostor anyway, but while they were interesting ideas amazingly filmed, I got to the end of each feeling dissatisfied, confused & wondering what the fuss was about.  So I haven't voted...

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I had to go with Blade Runner because, well... it's the only one of those that I've seen!

It is a super awesome movie though, and it looks like everyone else thinks so too. :)

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superdrive0:

I had to go with Blade Runner because, well... it's the only one of those that I've seen!

It is a super awesome movie though, and it looks like everyone else thinks so too. :)

I also went with Blade Runner because it captures both the feel and essence of the Dick story, but made it completely it's own.

I have to stick up for A Scanner Darkly. I thought the use of rotoscoping was a pretty inventive tool to visually present the movie. Much more effective than Waking Life. I can understand people who are underwhelmed by it since it has been co-opted by investment commercials. I also thought that the acting was pretty good.

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It's obviously just me, but I simply didn't, and still don't though I've tried, get the greatness of Blade Runner.  It just ran right past me.  I watched it again a few months ago to try to see if I could find why it's such an iconic and beloved movie, but I've come to face the fact that I simply do not appreciate it the way it seems that everyone else does ;).

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Phantasma-gore-ia:

It's obviously just me, but I simply didn't, and still don't though I've tried, get the greatness of Blade Runner.  It just ran right past me.  I watched it again a few months ago to try to see if I could find why it's such an iconic and beloved movie, but I've come to face the fact that I simply do not appreciate it the way it seems that everyone else does ;).

And I thought I was the only one!  At last - a comrade...  :-)

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QFLW:

Phantasma-gore-ia:

It's obviously just me, but I simply didn't, and still don't though I've tried, get the greatness of Blade Runner.  It just ran right past me.  I watched it again a few months ago to try to see if I could find why it's such an iconic and beloved movie, but I've come to face the fact that I simply do not appreciate it the way it seems that everyone else does ;).

And I thought I was the only one!  At last - a comrade...  :-)

For me, I think it's primarily the cyber punk aesthetic.  The futuristic world with all of this new technology mixed with the dirty aesthetic of an industrial culture that won't disappear.  I think it's a more honest expectation of the future than the clean and shiney sci-fi aesthetic.  I mean old buildings and technology are not just going to disappear anywhere near the same rate that new technology is rapidly advancing.  Also all of that rain reminds you that no matter what technology we think we will be able to achieve in the near future, it will probably be a long time if ever that we would be able to control the weather.