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  • Steeler80
    Mayor of Strunk
    • Jun 29, 2001
    • 5688

    #16
    Originally posted by Mawni
    I thought "Blade Runner" was better than "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and I also thought "Children of Men" was better than the book.
    I have to agree on this although I'm sure there's a lot of Philip K. Dick fans that might want to stone us.

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    • Hector
      el Hombre de Acero
      • May 19, 2003
      • 31852

      #17
      Originally posted by Mawni
      I thought "Blade Runner" was better than "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
      You beat me to the punch.

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      • jessica
        fortune favors the bold
        • Nov 5, 2007
        • 4590

        #18
        Definitely Planet of the Apes (1968) is better in the movie than the book. I'm glad that the movie makers didn't go for the futuristic look when they made that movie.
        Those who look outside dream. Those who look within awake.
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        1:6 boots for Mathilda, 1:1 Romulan Commander outfit, Ursus helmet; Cornelius appliance
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        • misterdroid
          Banned
          • Jan 10, 2008
          • 561

          #19
          Originally posted by Steeler80
          I have to agree on this although I'm sure there's a lot of Philip K. Dick fans that might want to stone us.
          Welllll, I'm a pretty hardcore PK Dick fan. I like the movie more than the book. Although in truth I consider Bladerunner "inspired by" rather than "based on" Androids. He did also and was pleased with the direction of the film (see book "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick")
          I am going to assume however that the upcoming film treatment of Radio Free Albemuth will be terrible, as the book is in itself a weird and paranoid version of his own far superior Valis.
          Digressions aside, I understand why people do not care for Androids. It is classic PK Dick at his best, and that's not for everyone.

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          • megoat
            A Therefore Experience
            • Jun 10, 2003
            • 2699

            #20
            Originally posted by misterdroid
            Welllll, I'm a pretty hardcore PK Dick fan. I like the movie more than the book. Although in truth I consider Bladerunner "inspired by" rather than "based on" Androids. He did also and was pleased with the direction of the film (see book "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick")
            I am going to assume however that the upcoming film treatment of Radio Free Albemuth will be terrible, as the book is in itself a weird and paranoid version of his own far superior Valis.
            Digressions aside, I understand why people do not care for Androids. It is classic PK Dick at his best, and that's not for everyone.
            I'm not a "hardcore" PKD fan, but I've read about a half dozen or so books--all excellent. I've actually never got around to reading Androids but I'm sure I'd dig it.

            Valis is by far my fave. A Schizo/Gnostic/Mind Bender. Horselover Fat!

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            • misterdroid
              Banned
              • Jan 10, 2008
              • 561

              #21
              Originally posted by megoat
              I'm not a "hardcore" PKD fan, but I've read about a half dozen or so books--all excellent. I've actually never got around to reading Androids but I'm sure I'd dig it.

              Valis is by far my fave. A Schizo/Gnostic/Mind Bender. Horselover Fat!
              Also my fave. I try to reread Valis/Divine Invasion/Transmigration trilogy every year. Keeps me grounded.

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              • Werewolf
                Inhuman
                • Jul 14, 2003
                • 14975

                #22
                Somewhere in Time is much better than the novel Bid Time Return.
                You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...

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                • The Bat
                  Batman Fanatic
                  • Jul 14, 2002
                  • 13412

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Mawni
                  Yeah, Bat, I really liked the voice-over too. And as for Dekard being a replicant, I thought it was cool when Rachel was the only one……

                  Yeah...the Voice over really gives it that Phillip Marlow/Sam Spade "Film Noir" kinda feel. As far as Deckard being a Replicant....I don't like it(I've never got thru more than 5 Minutes of the Directors Cuit). Part of the story is that Deckard had quit, and didn't want kill Them anymore. At the end of the Movie, He realizes that They've become just like Us...with feelings & emotions...and the desire to live. And He's a Human...who simpathize's with them.
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                  • Bo8a_Fett
                    Pat Troughton in disguise
                    • Nov 21, 2007
                    • 3738

                    #24
                    How about "Village of the Damned"....that was a great book but a superb movie....the original of course.
                    ENGLISH AND DAMN PROUD OF IT British by birth....English by the grace of God. Yes Jamie...it is big isn't it....

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                    • Adam West
                      Museum CPA
                      • Apr 14, 2003
                      • 6822

                      #25
                      Honestly, I don't really recall reading a book that I thought was better in movie format but most of the books I read never become movies.

                      One book that I really enjoyed was John Adams and thought the HBO miniseries was an excellent representation of the book. Other than that, I'm having a hard time thinking of another one.
                      "The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
                      ~Vaclav Hlavaty

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                      • namtab29
                        #1 Aquaman Fan
                        • Feb 22, 2005
                        • 1856

                        #26
                        i enjoyed the Ghost World movie much more than Clowes' original GN.

                        i know Clowes is brilliant and all, but i just find his tone so cool and detached, its always been hard for me to "enjoy" his work. but i didn't have that problem with the movie.

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                        • shellhead
                          museum rustpot
                          • Mar 1, 2007
                          • 638

                          #27
                          JAWS....The movie was very fast paced and tight, while the book got mired in multiple subplots. The movie ending was way better than the rather lame book ending.
                          Chris

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