[quote=nostradamus]LOL. I’ve bought something like 400 movies (at least that’s how many I still have in my collection, they tend to “walk away”) and Blade Runner (director’s cut) as well as all the Mad Max films are of course part of my collection. Blade Runner was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Which is timeless… Hard to believe it was written in 1968. I am one who (like many) will almost always prefer the book to the movie.
Another potential-future movie I love is A Clockwork Orange. The movie is dated but the book just blows it away… I do see the self-entitled people of today turning into ultra-violent Alexes![/quote]
Nost: Philip K. Dick wrote the short story “Do Androids…”, as well as dozens of other stories and novels that have been turned into movies.
IMHO, one of the greatest sci-fi writers ever, and I say that as a fan of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, etc.
Interesting side note: He died in 1982 nearly right at the release of “Blade Runner” and absolutely hated the movie, saying that Ridley Scott had destroyed his vision of the tale. I wonder what he would have thought of the Director’s Cut, which is vastly superior to the theatrical release, for no other reason than it eliminated that annoying Harrison Ford narrative/voice over.
If you’re a fan of alternative history, read his novel, “The Man in the High Castle”, which is an alternative history of WWII (the Axis wins this time). Good stuff.
