See: Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Well, though, I'd like to SOMEDAY see a movie that truly captured the essence of Philip K. Dick. In serious ways - namely the attitude towards androids/replicants - Blade Runner was the polar opposite of Electric Sheep. Apart from one really nifty scene in Total Recall, the closest any movies have come to the trippy PKD feel (and I haven't seen Scanner Darkly yet, so that may have it) are some movies of Cronenberg's that aren't even PKD adaptations.
I would actually like to see an adaptation of DADoES. It is a very different story from Blade Runner, and there's quite a few elements from the novella I think would work on film.
Scanner Darkly is much closer to the real PKD vibe, Frank.
I said this at the time, but I think S1 of Galactica is the best adaptation of Dick that isn't actually based on something he wrote. It's got buckets of paranoia and identity issues, people who are killer robots and don't know it, evil imaginary women, and messages from God.
I agree with both Strega and David.
So
Xanadu
isn't very good. Just in case anybody was wondering.
(I mean the movie, here, naturally. Not the Broadway musical, which is utterly brilliant and should be seen by anybody who is near New York and likes having fun.)
See: Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I was going to say "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
So Xanadu isn't very good. Just in case anybody was wondering.
Man, I really like this movie unreasonably, but I know that there are reasons for it, mostly including 1) Gene Kelly being awesome, 2) rollerskating, and 3) I loved this movie when I was a kid and even though I hadn't seen it in a good ten years I still knew all the words to the songs.
But... yeah. It's not very good.
t /Xanadu ramblings
Once again, Ailleann appears to be me.
t clutches beloved copy of ELO's Xanadu soundtrack tightly to chest...
