I am a big fan of Richard Linklater, so I've been eagerly waiting to watch A Scanner Darkly. So, I was a bit disappointed in finding merely okay or pretty good. There are some very interesting ideas and scenarios, but none of the intensely intellectual dialogue I look to Linklater for. Granted this was not an original story of his but based on the novel by Phillip K. Dick, the sci-fi innovator who brought us Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report among others. Linklater definitely gives it style, using the animation technique we saw in Waking Life. It is still worth seeing, and I would watch it again, I was just hoping for a little more.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
A Scanner Darkly
I am a big fan of Richard Linklater, so I've been eagerly waiting to watch A Scanner Darkly. So, I was a bit disappointed in finding merely okay or pretty good. There are some very interesting ideas and scenarios, but none of the intensely intellectual dialogue I look to Linklater for. Granted this was not an original story of his but based on the novel by Phillip K. Dick, the sci-fi innovator who brought us Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report among others. Linklater definitely gives it style, using the animation technique we saw in Waking Life. It is still worth seeing, and I would watch it again, I was just hoping for a little more.
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