george_deforest wrote: >> TurquoiseB wrote: >> >> As it turns out (I didn't know this when I wrote the >> first mini-review), the good ideas in the flick came >> from...again...Philip K. Dick, whose story it was >> based upon. That said, it wasn't a very good render- >> ing of Philip's ideas, but what, other than (perhaps) >> "Blade Runner," has been? >> > > well, i really liked "A Scanner Darkly", which came out last year. > based on PKD (who is great) and done by Richard Linklater, > using a very cool animation technique called digital rotoscoping. > stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Winona Rider > I liked it too. The digital rotoscoping is mostly all software and a lot of NLE programs these days including inexpensive ones are capable of this so one can do their family videos in this style. > >> Philip was an over-the-top crazy, a man with so many ideas >> running through his brain that society is still trying to >> absorb them all. But they haven't translated to film >> very well yet. >> > > on the DVD extras, they interview his grown children > I recently picked up the DVD but haven't gotten to the extras yet. Those should be very interesting. I saw the movie in a theater last year.
I also get a kick out of how Linklater likes to put his old buddy Alex Jones ( www.inforwars.com ) in his animated films. In this film he had Alex acting out his favorite fantasy of being rounded up by government black-ops. :)
