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A Scanner Darkly

I've seen it a while ago. IIRC, it was ok... the animation technique was cool, the story was pretty true to the Philip K. Dick original, but I remember not being too impressed with it. A bit too confused in the middle for my taste, which might or might not be intended. If you can get it easily, it's sure worth watching, but I wouldn't really go to any length obtaining it.
 
It's probably the most accurate adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel there is, and I think it's pretty successful with it. The rotoscope style works very well with the film and looks pretty awesome. Reeves is your standard Reeves (but it works alright here), but Robert Downey Jr. is in it and he's actually awesome in it so there's that too!

Music's hella cool too.


(read the book afterwards)
 
It was ok. The ending speaks to Keanu's acting talent.
 
I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. It wasn't OMG BEST MOVIE EVAR or anything, but it was good. Definitely worth watching, if you're a PKD fan.
 
Bickendan has seen it.

I've not, but I dislike that sort of animation.

You see it sometimes on tv commercials now.
 
I found it enjoyable enough, although I recall being a bit distracted by the animation. I've just read in your link that it was only done by computer, rather than rotoscoped manually, so I can watch it again now without feeling any guilt if I don't enjoy something that had apparently taken hundreds or thousands of pointless man-hours.

Interesting that it was done by the same people as Waking Life, which is a film where I thought the animation served the subject really well and added a lot of interest and character to something that could've been a little dry if it was a straight documentary.
 
Whilst I found the performances to be more than adequate, I found the story slow, plodding, unintersting, and on the whole, just plain dull.
 
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