Comments on: A Scanner Darkly http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly Transcend Trends Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:34:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: mr skin http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-388 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:46:19 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-388 Sounds like Keanu did a great job in The Lake House. I am sure my wife will want to see that one. She always wants to see chick flicks. I would never see these movies by myself. But I end up liking them. :) Sounds like Keanu did a great job in The Lake House. I am sure my wife will want to see that one. She always wants to see chick flicks. I would never see these movies by myself. But I end up liking them. :)

]]> by: laura jane http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-182 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:51:12 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-182 scanner was my first PKD story, and i was in tears by the time i finished reading it. i connected with this book on so many levels -- the humor, the future dystopian paranoia, the spiritual implications, and the overall HUMAN tragedy of the story.... i felt that the movie fell EXTREMELY short of the mark. i couldn't find an emotional context for any of the characters. i was also really disappointed by the opening scene, which to me could have been a lot scarier and weirder and less "ha ha, omg he thinks he has bugs on him!!!!" ...i am not a huge david lynch fan BUT i will cite the diner/dumpster scene in mulholland drive because lynch has an ability to convey a certain weird creepiness which i felt scanner was really lacking... to me this creepy trippy element exists in almost all of dick's stories, but for the life of me i couldn't find it in the movie, and i was left feeling really disappointed.... the movie felt, to me, like an empty shell. scanner was my first PKD story, and i was in tears by the time i finished reading it. i connected with this book on so many levels — the humor, the future dystopian paranoia, the spiritual implications, and the overall HUMAN tragedy of the story…. i felt that the movie fell EXTREMELY short of the mark. i couldn’t find an emotional context for any of the characters. i was also really disappointed by the opening scene, which to me could have been a lot scarier and weirder and less “ha ha, omg he thinks he has bugs on him!!!!” …i am not a huge david lynch fan BUT i will cite the diner/dumpster scene in mulholland drive because lynch has an ability to convey a certain weird creepiness which i felt scanner was really lacking… to me this creepy trippy element exists in almost all of dick’s stories, but for the life of me i couldn’t find it in the movie, and i was left feeling really disappointed…. the movie felt, to me, like an empty shell.

]]> by: SubstanceM http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-131 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:26:20 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-131 I had huge hopes for this movie - at one time I was working out my own screenplay - but somehow, I agree with Tim's review. I loved the novel, and they did a good job sticking to the novel, but somehow it didn't work and I left feeling like it was mainly booooring. In a way I wondered if it was because I had too much front loading of what I expected, but I found it boring and I think most people will. Too bad. It wasn't without it's good points, like RDJ as Barris, but...ehhh. I'd love to be writing that it was the shit and urging everyone to go see it, but I'm not feeling it. I had huge hopes for this movie - at one time I was working out my own screenplay - but somehow, I agree with Tim’s review. I loved the novel, and they did a good job sticking to the novel, but somehow it didn’t work and I left feeling like it was mainly booooring. In a way I wondered if it was because I had too much front loading of what I expected, but I found it boring and I think most people will. Too bad. It wasn’t without it’s good points, like RDJ as Barris, but…ehhh.
I’d love to be writing that it was the shit and urging everyone to go see it, but I’m not feeling it.

]]> by: pmp http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-113 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:36:42 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-113 i suspect i rather liked it specifically because i've never read the book i suspect i rather liked it specifically because i’ve never read the book

]]> by: alistair http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-69 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:43:28 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-69 i watched about two or three minutes of it and franky the bugs were too much and i disliked the twat who casually dropped the phone as a way of hanging up so much that i did too. i watched about two or three minutes of it and franky the bugs were too much and i disliked the twat who casually dropped the phone as a way of hanging up so much that i did too.

]]> by: Nicq MacDonald http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-67 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:11:48 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-67 Haven't been here in awhile... ...but I've gotta disagree with you, completely. A Scanner Darkly has to be about the best PKD adaptation I've seen yet, and the only one that truly captured the "Dick" feel; after my roommate and I walked out of that movie, we felt like we'd come off of a two-hour drug trip. It was positively disturbing. As for Keanu as Arctor, I thought it worked- it's precisely his "cypher"-like quality that made him work, both in A Scanner Darkly and in The Matrix (Slate.com recently ran an article about Keanu's character portrayals that explains this better than I can bother to at the moment). The rotoscoped animation, rather than distracting, proved to be the most effective filter that I could imagine to see a PKD work to... as my roommate, a bigger PKD fan than I noted, his works were inspired by seizures- drug induced and otherwise- and as she is someone who also experiences the same condition that PKD suffered from, she understands what it can do to one's "reality"; the rotoscoped picture reflected this in a very similiar way. But that's enough for now; I can't convince you to like something you don't (I've tried to convince enough people to like the Matrix sequels with little success)... Haven’t been here in awhile…

…but I’ve gotta disagree with you, completely.

A Scanner Darkly has to be about the best PKD adaptation I’ve seen yet, and the only one that truly captured the “Dick” feel; after my roommate and I walked out of that movie, we felt like we’d come off of a two-hour drug trip. It was positively disturbing. As for Keanu as Arctor, I thought it worked- it’s precisely his “cypher”-like quality that made him work, both in A Scanner Darkly and in The Matrix (Slate.com recently ran an article about Keanu’s character portrayals that explains this better than I can bother to at the moment). The rotoscoped animation, rather than distracting, proved to be the most effective filter that I could imagine to see a PKD work to… as my roommate, a bigger PKD fan than I noted, his works were inspired by seizures- drug induced and otherwise- and as she is someone who also experiences the same condition that PKD suffered from, she understands what it can do to one’s “reality”; the rotoscoped picture reflected this in a very similiar way.

But that’s enough for now; I can’t convince you to like something you don’t (I’ve tried to convince enough people to like the Matrix sequels with little success)…

]]> by: sketchmonkey http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-66 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:04:46 +0000 http://www.popocculture.com/32/a-scanner-darkly#comment-66 I must say, after I watched the first 20 or so minutes of the IGN Filmforce preview, I lost all interest in seeing the rest of the film. The performances were just too... self referential? Over the top? I dunno, the rotoscoped animation struck me as an excuse for the actors to ham things up... & not in an entertaining way. The performances totally turned me off & seemed woefully inappropriate, given Dick's original story. Yet another example of a PKD story shit-ified by Hollywood, IMHO... I must say, after I watched the first 20 or so minutes of the IGN Filmforce preview, I lost all interest in seeing the rest of the film. The performances were just too… self referential? Over the top? I dunno, the rotoscoped animation struck me as an excuse for the actors to ham things up… & not in an entertaining way. The performances totally turned me off & seemed woefully inappropriate, given Dick’s original story.

Yet another example of a PKD story shit-ified by Hollywood, IMHO…

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