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    Posted: November 25 2011 at 13:47
Wheres Blade Runner?

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A Scanner Darkly for me,though it would be my second if Blade Runner was included in the poll.


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Definitely Blade Runner, but since it was accidentally left off (more like conveniently omitted Wink), Scanner Darkly is also ace.  
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Some love for Minority Report here.


I suspect due to the fact Blade Runner is not in the poll.

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Points: 1240 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2011 at 07:06
Originally posted by Alitare Alitare wrote:

^Well, that was on porpoise. The OP knew that Blade Runner would win, so he excluded it.


No, I really forgot to add to the list!Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Deathrabbit Deathrabbit wrote:

No option for the Matrix? It was loosely based on a concept by Dick.


MAtrix was "based" in MANY things... but the main inspiration, I think, was Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
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Originally posted by tupan tupan wrote:

^There's a remake being made, starring Colin Farrel and directed by Len Wiseman.

The original one is awesome, they really expanded the original idea from the short story!



Interesting, that could be good. And I saw that Bill Nighy would be Kuato. And Len directing, which perhaps explains why Beckinsale and Nighy appear in the remake. Interesting.
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Points: 3595 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 21:37
^Well, that was on porpoise. The OP knew that Blade Runner would win, so he excluded it.
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Oh wow, I just realized Blade Runner isn't here, either. That's another good one.
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'Little Brown Hole'

 .. whoops sorry, that's an adaptation of an Andy Dick work to film
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No option for the Matrix? It was loosely based on a concept by Dick.
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I'll vote for Adjustment Bureau, I liked MR but it was a bit muddled in plot and appearance and Blade Runner is more a work of art than a well-written story, and Recall... ouch.   Haven't seen the first two on list.
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Would Minority Report have been better if it were someone other than Tom Cruise in the lead role?
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I vote for Total Recall. I also quite enjoyed Minority Report, but Paycheck was an abomination, especially considering the utter genius of the original story.
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^There's a remake being made, starring Colin Farrel and directed by Len Wiseman.

The original one is awesome, they really expanded the original idea from the short story!
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I'm voting for Total Recall because I actually like how they picked up an already fantatsic idea for a story and kept going with it. And of course, for all the cheesy Arnie one-liners.
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Some love for Minority Report here.
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Points: 36840 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2011 at 11:49
Neat to hear about the film adaptation Ubik -- great book, though I doubt it will do it justice, but then I rarely find movie adaptations nearly as satisfying as the books (Truffaut's adaptation of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 being an exception).  I still think Dr. Bloodmoney would be a really good one to adapt for film, but might come off pretty cheesy.

That looks quite interesting, Dean.  I haven't read Radio Free Albemuth.  I found VALIS rather difficult to get into, but should read it again some time. 
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Radio Free Albemuth is finished waiting release.
 
 
The film rights to two related stories, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said and VALIS have been sold.
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I've only seen a couple of those.  I didn't realize they were Dick flicks. LOL
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