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randya
07-12-06, 03:47 PM
Anyone seen this yet? It's on limited release, I've seen the trailer, and I'm gonna try and catch the movie this weekend. Another movie adaptation of a Phillip Dick story, this time by Richard Linklater, in an interesting animation style. Should be a good one.
Poppaspoke
07-13-06, 01:58 AM
You may also want to check out the chamber opera VALIS, by Tod Machover
(on Bridge Records).
It's a fascinating piece of music, not all what you would expect from the dreaded
term "opera".
randya
07-13-06, 02:45 PM
The movie opens tomorrow. I've got tickets for a midday Saturday performance.
scarpi41
07-25-06, 10:05 PM
I just saw it last night. Amazing. The animation style is cool and unique, altho i dont watch much animation so I'm no expert to say the least. But however, strong message behind the movie, characters are great, I was a fan of all parts played in the movie.

I especially like the lines from keanu reeves character, FRED.

"What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darky the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again"

Great movie. A must see, to say the least, again.


scarp
HereNT
07-25-06, 10:10 PM
I was less than impressed, though I was drunk while watching and not high or tripping like most of the kids in the theater with me. If I was younger, probably would have been great.

It did make me want to read the book. I'm sure there's a lot that I missed by only seeing the movie...
randya
07-26-06, 03:22 PM
It was supposed to be a very difficult story to adapt to film. I thought it was well done under the circumstances. Robert Downey Jr. had some great lines.
zac33r
08-02-06, 12:36 PM
i really like the animation style but i cant seem to find in theater anywhere near me is it out yet?
randya
08-02-06, 01:48 PM
It is on limited release in selected markets.
muccapazza
08-14-06, 12:48 PM
Great, gonna see it again. The mountain bike riff was hilarious. Don't wait for for the video, must be seen on the big screen.
shakeNbake
08-14-06, 09:37 PM
The mountain bike riff was hilarious.

+100000000000000000000000000000

I was laughing my ASS off! Nobody else in the theatre gets that joke.
Karldar
08-15-06, 07:36 AM
Great, gonna see it again. The mountain bike riff was hilarious. Don't wait for for the video, must be seen on the big screen.
Well, I hope you're happy! Now I gotta see it....
muccapazza
08-15-06, 01:33 PM
Well, I hope you're happy! Now I gotta see it....

Then my work here is done. :)
Johnny Rad
09-14-06, 08:41 PM
Kept waiting for the cartoons to morph into film...

Entertaining movie, until it got to the end and tried to make a point. I have grown weary of movies, comedies especially, that have to make a fell good point at the end. Like Reeve's soliloquy in Scanner.
randya
09-14-06, 10:59 PM
Did you think it was a comedy? Or that it should have been pointless?
substructure
09-18-06, 01:18 PM
I was less than impressed, though I was drunk while watching and not high or tripping like most of the kids in the theater with me. If I was younger, probably would have been great.

It did make me want to read the book. I'm sure there's a lot that I missed by only seeing the movie...


Have you ever read anything by PKD?

A Scanner Darkly wasn't too difficult to follow like some of his work. You may not have a problem, but it took some time for me.

Jeeze, when I opened UBIK I thought I flipped out trying to follow what was real and what wasn’t.