Actually Scanner Darkly is freaking awesome. Hands down THE most accurate translation of a PKD story to movie. Just don't have anything scheduled too soon after you see it because getting out of that theater is a lot like coming off a serious drug trip and driving is not your friend for a good half hour afterwards.<<
Looks crappy and Pop to me !
It stars Keanu Reeves, yeaghh !
I remember that Wil Gibson wanted to make Sci-Fi more Rock 'n' Roll, that is the probelm he and other in this subgenre of CyberJunk also made it very anti-American and very very violent(remember Johnny Moronic)
Well I actually saw it and it was great. Huge PKD fan and I've seen everything made from his books and short stories, and Scanner is the best. Keanu actually can act, he just frequently doesn't.
Wil Gibson wanted to get away from the sacharine shiny-happy-future that had taken over SF in the 70s. Personally I like the changes, those clean shiny SF worlds were primarily boring, they didn't connect to reality well and lacked oomph. There's a reason why Gibson got the first ever Philip K Dick Award, the modern age of SF follow very closely from some of the core concepts in PKD's work, filled with dirty streets and unhappy people. I don't think anybody hated the Johnny Mnemonic movie more than Gibson, nice soundtrack though.