Richard Linklater

This film shows the essence of rock'n'roll better than any other film I know of. Black is great, of course, in a role that had to be written for him, but what makes the film work is the kids. I also credit the scriptwriters for not making the crisis point in the film worse than it had to be. I must also note that Joan Cusack, whom I have found annoying in every other role I've seen her in, is really great here. Highly highly recommended. Laugh out loud funny.

This is a pretty lovely styling of Phil Dick's ragged tale; the tale itself has a tragic hilarity, dragged up as it was from Dick's own drugged up life and poured into a typewriter at warped speed driven by bennies.

Maybe only 3 stars because 1. Dick never had the time to do it right . . . but if he had, he maybe wouldn't have done it at all. This is just fate but it makes ragged prose. and 2. buffing the surface of this tragic artifact somehow obscures it. I think.

Two strangers spend the night in Vienna.

I expected it to be better, given its reputation. They talk in a series of Indie Movie Monologues. But I can believe that these characters would talk that way, so it works. Delpy's good enough to turn this from a novel experiment into a genuinely good movie.

Concept: B
Story: C
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: A
Music: B

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 2.8/4

So much work went into making the spectacular movie adaptation of the Philp K. Dick story that I do appreciate the painted stills being repurposed into this graphic novel, which is given more design and care than a simple photo story book of a movie, but at the same time, I would love to have seen new artists adding to this worn their own style and perspectives.

I hope the original artists who worked on the movie got paid for this.

Look, the story is perfect. I laughed, I cried, I had my show more mind blown. Dick is an absolute legend. I just don't think I can give full marks for this, despite giving them to movie and story.

This was another random in library read that I likely wouldn't have bothered with otherwise, but I'm glad I did as this story is so powerful however it is imbibed. show less