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60 of 135 · most liked firstMovie 2 today: A SCANNER DARKLY (2006)
neutral · AI labelView post →For @crooked-marquee.bsky.social, I celebrated the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater's 'A Scanner Darkly,' possibly the only movie to truly capture Philip K. Dick's psychedelic stoner sensibility.
positive · AI labelView post →[SPOILER] :: A Scanner Darkly (2006). [SPOILER] ::: First i want say about the rotoscope animation, this is first film i saw like this, it’s a unique way to portray the story without any real life constraints. and the story also was good with a well casted characters. In the beginning i wasn’t able to understand the intricacies of the movie, specifically the opening sequence, but later on found he was paranoid. It took me long enough to understand and when it revealed it’s quite intriguing to…
positive · AI labelView post →[Movie] A Scanner Darkly - proto-cyberpunk, maybe?. All of Philip K. Dick's writings pre-date cyberpunk as a genre but were very influential in the creation of cyberpunk. So he represents a proto-cyberpunk period in time. Also, most of his books are about drug use and questioning reality. When his books are only used as the foundation of a movie, amazing things can happen (Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall). But when you create a *faithful* adaptation of his works it always ends…
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Cyberpunk Masterpieces the Algorithm Buried!. I hate clickbait listicle youtube videos too, but this video actually came up with a pretty good list of obscure cyberpunk movies and I wanted to talk about them. Just to save you a click (so you don't have to watch the video), here are the 10 movies it mentions: 1. [Hardware](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0k2YvEns-M) (1990) 2. [Nirvana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4Q_6hr5II) (1997) 3.…
neutral · AI labelView post →*A Scanner Darkly* is the near-future Philip K. Dick film that always feels set in the present. 20 years later, Richard Linklater's rotoscoped sci-fi is as fresh as ever.. > Linklater’s adaptation of *A Scanner Darkly* works so well because, back in 2006, it adhered so closely to the source. Twenty years later, the real world has begun to look uncannily like a dystopia imagined by Philip K. Dick.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Night Announcement: A Scanner Darkly (2006) followed by Fight Club (1999), Saturday 2/28 (tomorrow). This is 8pm Eastern like usual.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav non-franchise science fiction film. I could also have named "Brazil", "The Fifth Element", "A Scanner Darkly", or "They Live", for example, but I'll go with: "Delicatessen" (1991)
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the best adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel. 'A Scanner Darkly' Is the Smart Challenging Movie You're Looking For - Dirk Hooper Write Works www.writeworks.dirkhooper.com/scanner-dark...
neutral · AI labelView post →We are starting A Scanner Darkly now. Saturday Movie Night. Just pick a chat name here: https://submatrix.net/chat
neutral · AI labelView post →I actually stumbled upon A Scanner Darkly, a film based on the Philip K. Dick novel and animated using the rotoscope technique. Starring, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson. It’s REALLY good and like nothing I’ve seen. Highly recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: Richard Linklater intended to film the Philip K. Dick novel ‘Ubik’, but decided to film Dick's ‘A Scanner Darkly’ instead, after Wiley Wiggins, who played the main character in Linklater’s ‘Waking Life’, suggested it to him. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Sunday evening film: A Scanner Darkly, directed by Richard Linklater, based on the novel by Phil Dick. Captures the feel of a Dick novel better than most adaptations in my opinion
positive · AI labelView post →Alex Jones cameo aside, which is a hell of a thing to type, I feel like the movie version of "A Scanner Darkly" improves on the source material.
positive · AI labelView post →"Neo barely needing Neo" (a rotoscoped tribute to FauxPseudo's *Heathcliff without Heathcliff*). Still kinda blows my mind that director Richard Linklater got four top-shelf actors in to this scene, which is from his beautiful adaptation of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's [*A Scanner Darkly*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly). In any case, this is just a little random, sideways-thanks to [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/FauxPseudo) for his lovely, ongoing work on…
neutral · AI labelView post →more books in the mail today: one for me and one for kiddo. tbh it's crazy I never read A Scanner Darkly before, considering it's one of the best PKD adaptations on film. and Bunnicula.. suddenly remembered that being an early favorite of mine so fingers crossed my son likes it
neutral · AI labelView post →A Scanner Darkly There's an emotional side to drug use, and the film leans into that more than the book does. It's a much a telling of the story as it is an insight into the mind of the author.
positive · AI labelView post →Between CoFlow teaching me to be independent as fox and Akira showing me the only sci-fi future I really cared about as a kid, it’s amazing I didn’t properly get into PKD until the A Scanner Darkly movie. They gave me all the clues
positive · AI labelView post →A Scanner Darkly and it's not even remotely close. Career-best performances from Reeves, RDJ, Ryder and Harrelson. The best and truest adaption of a Philip Dick novel to film ever done. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched A Scanner Darkly last night. First time in a while and: 1. This movie is still so good and doesn't get talked about enough. 2. Especially RDJ and Winona Ryder. Each gives a performance so different from what people are used to. Amazing. 3. I am going to read more Philip K. Dick.
positive · AI labelView post →I dunno. A Scanner Darkly kept its title. Great movie too.
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched A SCANNER DARKLY. Written & directed by Richard Linklater based on the book by Philip K Dick. This is a great film. Weird & unsettling, with a beautiful visual style. And it’s the closest adaptation of proper #PKD I’ve ever seen, capturing his twisted reality & dark humour. Great stuff!
positive · AI labelView post →Time to get a couple movies in before AEW Double or Nothing! First randomly selected movie up is.. A Scanner Darkly, 2006
neutral · AI labelView post →my current brain-damaged movie rewatch list: -Coherence -Primer -A Scanner Darkly (audiobook by Paul Giamatti is also terrific) -White Noise -Repo Man time loops and supermarkets in 2026
neutral · AI labelView post →I just finished The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick. Entertaining read. I've seen the film A Scanner Darkly and will leave that one for another day - but, I am looking forward to finding a cheap copy of Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →A Scanner Darkly Amazing film. Got to see it in the theater. Highly recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →Flock and Meta (et al.) sure have made PKD's A Scanner Darkly and its film adaptation relevant again, huh?
neutral · AI labelView post →New issue of Film Stories is very, very good. Great articles on A Scanner Darkly, the music of 2001, T2, Roger Deakins, David Koepp, Spielberg + more. @filmstories.bsky.social @ryanlambie.bsky.social @filmsonwax.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Mostly 1999, with one detour to rewatch A Scanner Darkly, because it was my pick for a movie discussion group I'm in that met this week. I expect next week I'll get to 1999's Oscar winners (American Beauty and All About My Mother). #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →Unusual or less known movies I've watched a quite a few times: - Leaves of Grass - A Scanner Darkly - Red Lights - Where the Buffalo Roam - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -2010: The Year We Make Contract My mind is blanking on the others
positive · AI labelView post →I also have to set John Wick aside, but very close anyway, is A Scanner Darkly, arguably the best movie adaptation of Philip K Dick. Incredible film.
positive · AI labelView post →Have any of you guys read 'A Scanner, Darkly' because it's pretty good and the movie is pretty good also
positive · AI labelView post →Well, my favorite movie that Keanu's in is Bram Stoker's Dracula, but it's not because of him. My favorite Keanu performance? A Scanner Darkly.
positive · AI labelView post →Recent dad and daughter film, A Scanner Darkly.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Scanner Darkly is an underrated classic. So much so that Film Stories devoted an entire section to how it was made: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...
positive · AI labelView post →#FilmSky My 4 favorite first time watches from March: 1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2026) Directed by Matt Johnson 2. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) Directed by Kim Jee-woon 3. The Cell (2000) Directed by Tarsem Singh 4. A Scanner Darkly (2006) Directed by Richard Linklater
neutral · AI labelView post →Late Friday night watch: A Scanner Darkly. Great film.
positive · AI labelView post →The best PKD adaptation, and maybe my favorite movie adaptation of a novel in general (or tied with "Inherent Vice," is "A Scanner Darkly" which maybe understands addiction better than the original book. It's tighter and more elegant than its source material.
positive · AI labelView post →Psychedelic movie night in Edinburgh - A Scanner Darkly - all welcome! Book free places here and do share: www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedeli...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Night Announcement: A Scanner Darkly (2006) followed by Fight Club (1999), Saturday 2/28 (tomorrow). This is 8pm Eastern like usual.
neutral · AI labelView post →IMO It's an absolutely brilliant concept and amazing achievement, but on the whole, the parts didn't sum up to something all that interesting for me. Maybe it's because we already have years of personal experiences in terms of growing up and seeing people, things and situations change all around us, I don't know. And we already have documentaries tracking peoples lives & careers, making "Boyhood" oddly gimmicky for me. \*shrug* Meanwhile, his earlier films *Slacker* & *Dazed and Confused*…
neutral · AI labelView post →Philip K Dick is one of my favourite novelists and A Scanner Darkly one of my most loved books. Until this evening I had never seen the film (as I didn't want to taint my memory of my imagination). Here the prescience about an authoritarian state is astonishing. This looks like an Ice abduction.
positive · AI labelView post →I only really found out about Philip K Dick after watching A Scanner Darkly on a trip to the US. Rotoscoping really worked in that film. Amazed at how many of his stories made it into film.
positive · AI labelView post →For the movie, "A Scanner Darkly", the film was shot digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope, an animation technique in which animators trace over the original footage frame by frame. In 2006, it took 15 months to animate. Pretty sure you could do it over a weekend with AI now.
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie that takes place where you’re from ~ Shout out to A SCANNER DARKLY - the only movie that literally takes place where I’m from. Go watch!
positive · AI labelView post →141. A Scanner Darkly Utterly enthralling movie. Visually fixated on the screen from minute 1 to the end. What a good experience, I want to read the book now. Only real flaw is the introduction of the YOU LOOK LIKE EVERY PERSON SIMULTANEOUSLY suit was so stunning that I missed expository dialog...
positive · AI labelView post →I think A SCANNER DARKLY is my favorite Linklater movie. Before I saw it, I never thought he was capable of something like that.
positive · AI labelView post →My top 10 sci fi films? (One per director and only one Star Trek film) 2001: A Space Odyssey A Scanner Darkly eXistenZ Star Trek: The Motion Picture Metropolis Galaxy Quest Terminator 2: Judgment Day Slaughterhouse-Five Back To The Future 2 2010: The Day We Make Contact (a cheat? Whatever)
positive · AI labelView post →Movie Night Announcement: A Scanner Darkly (2006) followed by Fight Club (1999), Saturday 2/28 (tomorrow). This is 8pm Eastern like usual.
neutral · AI labelView post →the absolute doom at the heart of things like Slacker, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, the Before films...even Dazed & Confused, a "cool hangout movie," is imbued with menace. And then movies like Tape or Suburbia are so underseen that the more explicitly dark edges get lost in the sauce
neutral · AI labelView post →I can remember when Lil' Alex was an amusing character to a lot of us. Around the same time, I enjoyed reading RAW and dipping into the conspiracy theorists once in a while and trying on their "reality tunnels" for a bit, just for the exercise. Heck, I remember spotting Lil' Alex in *A Scanner Darkly* and being amused at the cameo. I thought he was doing it for the grift, meaning all of it - his Prison Planet movie, etc... But a lot of this got very dark and metastasized over time, that's for…
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with 1 TTRPG, 1 book, 1 boardgame, 1 movie & 1 TV show. AD&D 2nd Edition A Scanner Darkly Trouble Ghost in the Shell Mr Inbetween
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been thinking a lot lately about the novel/movie A Scanner Darkly, where the protagonist wears a "scramble suit" making him completely anonymous. This is the sad future we're limping towards now, the need to wear a literal body-size bag (and more) to disguise us from all pervasive surveillance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ANIMATED movie title that begins with the letter “S” 🎥 S is for… A Scanner Darkly (2006) #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →"Brokeback Mountain"... man, both the short-story (novella?) and the movie were phenomenal. Carrie, Princess Bride, A Scanner Darkly, The Wizard of Oz, Stand By Me, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, ... I'm sure there are others, but you get the point.
neutral · AI labelView post →ok.ru/video/896805... We all know Keanu Reeves can't act, but this interpretation of 'A Scanner Darkly' is well worth a watch (if you haven't already watched it a 100 times 🤫😉🙃) Ps, I had to buy all my Philip K Dick books. The non sci fi ones are classic too.
positive · AI labelView post →I mean, that would fit with my two favorite movie roles of his, especially Waking Life (he's abducted with a van in A Scanner Darkly, both are rotoscoped so you can't really see him) youtu.be/y5HLn3eYLSo
neutral · AI labelView post →Oddly, these two movies are both written and directed by Richard Linklater (though A Scanner Darkly is adapted from a novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick) Oddly, both of these movies employ rotoscoping as their animation method.
neutral · AI labelView post →25 May 2006: Adult animated sci-fi thriller ‘A Scanner Darkly’, based on the eponymous 1977 novel and directed by Richard Linklater, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Rotten Tomatoes score: 68% Letterboxd score: 3.6 (72%) #FilmSky #TodayAtTheMovies
neutral · AI labelView post →George Dibble's essay on A SCANNER DARKLY: midwestfilmjournal.com/2025/04/03/d... Alamo Drafthouse Indianapolis ticket link: drafthouse.com/indianapolis...
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