Your Favourite Philip K. Dick Movie Adaptation

Hi,

A bit of a harsh criticism, but in many ways it is something that is important, and specially so in film in the past 30/40 years in America, where all the hero films and stuff out of Hollywood is all about "action" ... you certainly won't bother with Tog Pun whatsoever, because it is all "action" and has ... oh well ... a little acting along the way!

America, has not been literary minded since the day that Marlon Brando screamed his famous Stella line, and then the movies thought that JD would make a far out hero, even though he is a jerk! It became about glorifying something for the show of it, and it also happened in England for example ... Lawrence Olivier was not above not raising his voice and pointing deadly fingers on stage and throw daggers around left and right ... some action in a few moments of theater!

As times change, everything seems to come into play ... but America is not a place to learn about the arts and their meaning and history ... movies have a better history here, see? ... and your comment will seem out of favor by many folks ... though within our group so many of us have seen, and enjoyed, so much foreign film and different things, that (for my tastes) it will be the day after I'm gone that I will be caught watching Tog Pun! And while fun in many ways, I even find the first film rather boring! Maybe it has to do with that church thing, and it making sure that folks see "everyday" heroes at work!

I was not lucky and when I came to America at 15, I spoke no English and I did not become aware of a lot of literature, other than the "classics" because of it. It took me 10 years to finish college/university because of English as I was dumped out of high school still not speaking English well enough to even get me a date or find out what the prom was all about!

I finally read Heinlein and Asimov when I was into my 40's some 25 to 30 years after coming to America, thus a lot of "literature" for me, was based in films. For example, I was more aware of Ray Bradbury via film than I was via his literature! Later this turned the tables into the lack of appreciation for Stephen King that I kinda consider just another Hollywood pulp writer. Although I found Anne Rice interesting and her take on the story of vampirism is a nice addon to its history, however, it was much better stated and seen in the erotic works, than in her best known novels, that could not show what she really wanted to see.

I became aware of this writer AFTER the film Blade Runner, and I don't even know that I have seen the other films at all and will look for them. But in general, what happened to BLADE RUNNER, is a once in a lifetime thing, and not likely that a film can color a writer and story any better for a while ... and I don't even find the book as good as the film was. The film had more of a story to tell in many ways, and it was beautifully illustrated by the film maker that created a world that even many science film enthusiasts appreciate.

QUOTED FOR TRUTH and not directed to any one person but to general crankiness and nitpicking. 

Also liked Paycheck and Blade Runner 2049. A few of these I haven't seen.

Seen very few of these.  Total Recall '90 was embarrassing, Blade Runner a wonderful textural feast but with almost no plot.   Voted Minority Report.