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RayB:
--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on August 27, 2007, 05:22:27 pm ---A good rule of thumb is to see any movie that's written by Charlie Kaufman.
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Adaptation
Being John Malkovich
All great. He used to write for "Get a Life" too which was a great albeit short-lived sitcom.
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I saw Spotless last night. Funny, it reminded me of Being John Malkovich. Now I know why.
PS: I have both Get a Life DVDs. It's so stupid, I LOVE it!
boykster:
I'll probably see Next, but will wait for dvd (for sure). I'm a big fan of PKD's novels and shorts, but have to admit that most of the movie adaptations are pretty craptacular. I'm probably one of the few ppl that actually liked 'A Scanner Darkly' in all of its rotoscopic wierdness....liked, not loved. I LOVED the novel.
It'd be curious to see some of his more obscure work adapted to film; I think Counterclock World would be a good choice...
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 27, 2007, 05:02:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 27, 2007, 04:57:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 26, 2007, 02:12:33 pm ---Another horrible cage movie was The Wicker Man.
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I'm one of the few people that didn't hate that movie, I didn't think it was all that good, but I didn't hate it. Although I only saw the dvd version which apparently had a couple different scenes and a different ending then the theatrical version (I have no idea how different, it just said it was on the box), so maybe that had something to do with it.
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I saw only the DVD version too. I just thought the whole thing was ridiculous. never was there an suspense or mystery. Just laughable ridiculousness.
BTW I like Lord of War too. Haven't seen Adaptation or Matchstick men and maybe I should.
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definitely see matchstick men
patrickl:
To me the story of Scanner Darkly got compeletely lost in the odd cartoon effect. I didn't even finish the movie. It felt a bit like a Bertolt Brecht play (make sure people don't get involved in the story so they keep thinking).
Blade Runner was nice though and Minority Report too (up to a point)
boykster:
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 28, 2007, 12:55:46 pm ---To me the story of Scanner Darkly got compeletely lost in the odd cartoon effect. I didn't even finish the movie. It felt a bit like a Bertolt Brecht play (make sure people don't get involved in the story so they keep thinking).
Blade Runner was nice though and Minority Report too (up to a point)
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Blade Runner was a loose adaptation of a MUCH wierder story, and Minority Report was a short story that was turned into a MI type action flick.....
I actually think the rotoscoping helped the movie immensely try to match the wierdness of the novel. There's also no other way I can imagine that you could represent the scramble suit and his trippy friends and their paranoia and hallucinations.....Like I said, I liked the movie....but not as much as I loved the book.
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