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He's not as much of a rage as you might think. You'll still find more of his stuff in a good used books store than in a Big Chain.

Blade Runner and Total Recall are not recent movies. I figure they make a PKD movie every decade or so.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Heheh I was gonna mention Dune too. Amazaing how such a great book can be made into such a bad movie.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hey, I loved that movie! Granted, I watched the movie before reading the book (IIRC I was eight when it came out) but it helped to shape my ideas of what it is to be more-human-than-human, and fed my burgeoning messiah complex. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif The thought that one could shape the world with a word is a powerful (and somewhat biblical) concept. When I finally did read the book I was bitterly disappointed that the wierding way was so horribly misrepresented. Once I finished the book I vastly prefered the true Version, so much so that I even pursued the martial arts (and some yoga), at least partially, in an attempt to gain some small understanding of prana-bindu. Needless to say, Dune is one of my favourite series.

My, that was a little OT.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">the one with the underground worms attacking the trailer park in the desert? i loved that, Kevin Bacon is so danmed funney.. Michael Gross put on a good show too. Oh wait, that was Tremors. Screamers had its good moments, but it was painfully bad in places, too.

block busters that sucked? I hated T3. in fact, im not too fond of most of the recent blockbuster movies. i mean, kangaroo jack toped the charts! granted, there was nothing else out at the time, but it was popular, for crying out loud!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Since Dune is my favorite SF book of all time, I had very high expectations. Unfortunately, I have been disappointed in most films made from good books: the Lord of the Rings, Dune, etc. After reading the bad reviews, I didn't even go to see the Postman or Starship Troopers (two more of my favorite books).

I think most books are just too long for the movie format. The BBC made a pretty decent Dune series, but it took six hours of story to do the book justice. Short stories can make very good films, though. Blade Runner was an adaptation of a short story called "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?" (I believe by Philip K. Dick).</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Starship troopers is a cool movie. Very different from the book (which is good in a very different way). You just have to not take the movie seriously.

Although how anyone can take a movie with lines like:

"You're just a big, fat, BRAIN BUG, ain'tcha?"

seriously is beyond me! Denise Richards attempts at acting are always quite funny too - oh, how I laughed!

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*peers in QuarianRex's ear...*

*...Hey, i can see a light at the end of the tunnel!*

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Oooohh... contact. I'd forgotten (blocked out?) everything about that. But yeah, now I'm reminded, it really was muchly badly bad. Awful, in fact. One might even go so far as to say "heap o' ****e."

If you hadn't noticed, I really didn't like that film.

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My friends and I had a darn good time watching "Contact"! Of course, turning it into a home Version of MST3K helped tremendously. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Yeah turning it into a joke fest was the only way I survived that movie http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif most of the people I knew that watched either can't remember what happened or fell a sleep outright.

I wonder if they did something to the film that made it so that it causes blackouts and memory loss? hmmm maybe so you'll forget how bad it was and watch it again?

Yeah the funniest part though was a PRIEST!!!! A FREAKIN PRIEST!!!! that boffed what's her name only an hour after meeting her, not bad for a guy who ain't supposed to have sex AT ALL, he's a man of the cloth you know.....satin, silk, linen you know whatever your bed sheats are made out of he'll be 'in the cloth" ;-).

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Was he a priest? I thought he was a preacher...

Am I wrong or are you being romanocentric?

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Yeah he was a preist....and what is Romanocentric?