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RayB:
A Scanner Darkly sucks.
Blade Runner is great.  I know a few years ago everyone snapped up all of his work, but that doesn't mean everything he wrote is gold. There can and probably are a lot of weak stories that are, and will be made into movies but shouldn't be (eg: A Scanner Darkly)

jbox:
Oh but dude, I totally want one of those morphing suits! That would be awesome.


Anyway, I just got around to watching "Next", and I have to say that I too have a few unresolved questions:
spoiler:

(a) What was the point of being shot *after* the phones were disconnected? duh! It wasn't to find the sniper, because he could just 'rewind' and tell her where the sniper was. It wasn't to make the bad guys think he was dead, because the FBI just switched off all the phone lines so the sniper had no way to contact his associates. So, WTF?
(b) What was the point letting the FBI search one deck at all? He takes a few minutes to process his potential searches of every other deck of the boat, and they can't spare the few seconds more it would take to search the current deck? WTF? FBI chick should have given him a damn radio so that the instant after one of them got shot (especially her!) someone could radio him straight away so that he could radio her back *before* they were shot. I know that wont work for hundreds of agents in mass gun battles like outside, but there's just like five FBI dudes inside.
(c) Covert operations work when they are SMALL. I can believe that a group of say ten individuals can be "trustworthy" and with sufficient funds could pull that off. But they were carrying that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- around and talking in front of hundreds of dock workers. Not a single one of them is even interested in the reward money (if not simply having family near by)? Not a chance. That gun battle at the end made it seem like there were a stack load of bad guys and choppers and all kinds of weapons just sitting on the docks waiting to get used.
(d) He spends his whole life being used to two minutes and now he can see days to weeks into the future for her? No way does he just bang the chick and move on without having a lot more questions about *why* she changes him.

/spoiler
Do any of the people who have read the book know if that stuff gets answered better there (if it even happens there in the first place)?

boykster:

--- Quote from: RayB on August 29, 2007, 08:53:46 pm ---A Scanner Darkly sucks.
Blade Runner is great.  I know a few years ago everyone snapped up all of his work, but that doesn't mean everything he wrote is gold. There can and probably are a lot of weak stories that are, and will be made into movies but shouldn't be (eg: A Scanner Darkly)


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Have you read the book, or are you basing only on the movie?  Personally, I think A Scanner Darkly was MUCH more mainstream than 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' and is actually very representative of PKD's body of work and how he addresses mental illness, drug use, existentialism, and most definately PARANOIA.

To each their own though, if you thought it sucked, then to you it sucked.  :dunno

RayB:
Nope, I did not read the book. And perhaps this is exactly my point. Not everything he wrote is suitable for a movie. Some stories are best told in written form.

boykster:

--- Quote from: RayB on August 31, 2007, 01:20:31 pm ---Nope, I did not read the book. And perhaps this is exactly my point. Not everything he wrote is suitable for a movie. Some stories are best told in written form.


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Good point.  If I hadn't read the book, I'm pretty sure the movie would have been pretty incomprehensible....

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