Blade Runner is a fine film (one of only 5 titles in my permanent collection, I'm a real film snob) and I highly recommend it. Other films supposedly based on Phildick stories were only so-so at best.
Can't read just one or two phildick books and think you know about Dick. I suggest the entire canon in chronological order including the non-sci-fi Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Of course, if you don't want your mind to get all twisted around, then I recommend not reading any Dick at all.
As far as sci-fi movies go, I recommend Mad Max, it is a very tight and thrilling movie, not a single scene wasted.
I just saw the new DVD Star Trek not because it thought it would be good, I just wanted to see where the franchise was these days. The movie exceeded my not-very-high expectations and I am happy to recommend it to fans of Star Trek TOS. I especially liked McCoy's entrance, I hooted so loud I scared the animals.
“P.K. Dick was easily the weirdest of all the sci-fi writers”
J G Ballard? He was out there.
Kilgore Trout does not count.
Or maybe the earlier works of Philippe Jose Farmer, before Riverworld (which is pretty strange in a religious way).
“P.K. Dick was easily the weirdest of all the sci-fi writers; his vision of reality could not easily be put on film.”
He was definitely weird. I’d add that he was extremely paranoid as well.
A Scanner Darkly stayed close to the books vision.
Blade Runner is great movie but nothing like the book. It should say inspired by PKD.
I hope to hell you’re not talking about the first 1979 movie where they’re wearing those silly pajamas. The polt was half-baked as well (think the TOS “Nomad” plot warmed over). The 1982 Wrath of Khan is the true classic. The soundtrack was awesome and the uniforms looked like uniforms.