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- 818Rob, on 05/14/2009, -0/+37This title really had me confused for a minute
- Wubsy, on 05/14/2009, -2/+21 A dick's tears? Strange, my dick just gets a runny nose.
- bromac, on 05/14/2009, -0/+14Philip K Dick is one of the seminal authors of time. Think Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Blade Runner. If this adapts to screen anywhere near as good as Blade Runner, we're in for a show.
- fightclub, on 05/14/2009, -0/+12Bladerunner
Screamers
Total Recall
Imposter
Minority report
Paycheck
A scanner darkly
Next
All Philip k. dick adaptions. Some good... some not so good. Depends on who directs and stars in I guess.
Anyway here's hoping... - TwwIX, on 05/14/2009, -1/+11Why are my dick's tears sticky?
- gOofytj, on 05/14/2009, -0/+7creativity with titles reached a new height
- markf3388, on 05/14/2009, -1/+6To all the haters, You dont know Dick!!!
- roodammy44, on 05/14/2009, -0/+4Man in the High Castle was epic.
Tears was a good book, at this rate all of his books will be made into movies.
Interesting how most of Dick's books have large amounts of drug use in them. - geauxtig3rs, on 05/14/2009, -0/+3He was a heavy drug user, and it eventually destroyed his liver and led to his death. This is why he wrote 'A Scanner Darkly" It was a tribute to all his friends he had done drugs with and died or were seriously ***** up.
- Regulator980, on 05/14/2009, -2/+5And here I thought, this would be about Dick Cheney crying in a movie.
- chazooka, on 05/14/2009, -0/+3Damn. I just went through a major reading kick of Dick. This one seemed great until the ending, which was pretty dreadful...
If Hollywood knew what it doing, they'd option Valis and The Man In The High Castle. The latter = one of the best sci fi stories I've read in ages. - geauxtig3rs, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2Blade Runner = Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
He also wrote "A Scanner Darkly" and the short stories that became "Total Recall," "Minority Report," and "Paycheck." All of which were vastly inferior to the stories they were based on. At any rate, PKD is one of my favorite authors of all time. I have every one of his published works. May he RIP. - inactive, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2Get back to me when they do Valis.
- Binto, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2Interesting that I just got done watching "A Scanner Darkly" and then hopped on digg to see a philip k dick reference on the front page. Crazy coincidence.
- TheInformer, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2My Dick cries too.
- thescimitar, on 05/14/2009, -1/+3I think that the relationship between Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was what bromac was pointing out...
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2Dugg for Dick. If I were a lesbian, I'd start a fan club called Dykes for Dick.
- windycityhxc, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1I'm going to need a tissue or two.
- scattass, on 05/14/2009, -1/+2He was a heavy meth user
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1I missed the 's the first time reading the title.
- robblink, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1The Wikipedia entry is pretty interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_My_Tears,_The_Po ...
There were some events in the book that actually happened to him in real life. - Recoil, on 05/14/2009, -1/+2The title could easily be interpreted as something else, if one uses their dirty imagination.
- samsmartjr, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1The Man In The High Castle wasn't just sci fi - it was alternate history. Still, yeah, it'd be a great movie.
- jbmcb, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1Forgot Barjo, an adaptation of Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Anyways -
Bladerunner - Excellent
Screamers - Pretty good for a somewhat B-movie
Total Recall - Not a great adaptation, but a fun movie
Imposter - Not that good
Minority report - OK, had some issues but not bad
Paycheck - Not good
A scanner darkly - At the very least it was interesting, not a bad adaptation
Next - From what I've heard, not good
Barjo - Good - OLTP, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1I think they had to try very hard to make the article title worse than the book title.
- 8FoldPath, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1He and Vonnegut are the prime suspects in the warping of my teenage mind. :)
- adraft, on 05/14/2009, -1/+2I gotta say I finally watched Blade Runner after hearing so many good things about it around the net and I was severely unimpressed. I wanted so badly to like it but it was not entertaining for me at all.
- warplayer, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1As long as they NEVER try to adapt Lies, Inc. (also known as The Unteleported Man) into a movie, I'll be happy. That book was just garbage, and I freakin' love a good Dick novel.
- samsmartjr, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1They already did. It's called "The Matrix."
- geauxtig3rs, on 05/14/2009, -0/+0That's exactly what I was thinking. Now "Ubik" or "The Three Stigmata or Palmer Eldrich" would be amazing.
- geauxtig3rs, on 05/14/2009, -0/+0I had forgotten about Screamers and Imposter
They could have done so much better with paycheck. - yttrstein, on 05/14/2009, -0/+0I think VALIS can't really be done as a movie, or at least it very much shouldn't be. To adapt it would very, very much be missing the point.
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -0/+0Unfilmable! :) of course, that's what they said about watchmen.
- dinot, on 05/14/2009, -2/+2Because you keep sticking in a minorities. I'll have to report you. They sure were screamers, I can totally recall.
Next! - HoraceJacobi, on 05/28/2009, -0/+0If you enjoy Dick, and loved A Scanner Darkly, check this out.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11761-Milwaukee ... - sajorojas, on 05/14/2009, -1/+1Dick Tears. There's a Visine for that.
- ElGubrush, on 05/14/2009, -3/+3Dick Cheney's tears are made of poisonous snakes.
So I thought this was a "snakes in a movie theater" movie. - Jektal, on 05/14/2009, -2/+1Meh, Blade Runner does -not- compare with the book.
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -3/+2also known as dick snot
- damntourists, on 05/14/2009, -3/+1dick tears.
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