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Yes, but you are hardly Mr light and fluffy Abba-listener, are you Simon?
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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I suspect only dangerous and hip urban films appeal to Simon, like the upcoming Swimfan.
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and the current "Juwanna Man". by the way, i saw Minority Report tonight, and it KICKS ASS. even better than Gattaca as a sci-fi drama/thriller.
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Bah. Spielbergified Philip K. Dick. Oxymoron aside, it was fairly decent though. Nothing as powerful as Armageddon, I'll grant.
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A "to scale" representation of the film's budget?
Also, this is like the second Dick short story to be made into a very different movie than the source in a very short time span. At Least Minority Report was good. Impostor made me want to cut my own face off.
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well, Blade Runner was the movie i would have used, Magnus, instead of Imposter, but i think that was why you didn't use it. you didn't want to be like me.
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Don't forget Screamers. Plenty of Dick rolling over in his grave there, too.
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here is a list of reviews for Imposter, if anyone is interested. by the way, Magnus, what is your definition of "short story"? i thought "Do Androids...." was short, but i guess you weren't including it in your list since it was published as a "novel". i guess it depends on whether we are using subjective definition or publishing definitions.
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Well, we'd need the publishing definitions, else it'd be up to you to define 'short.' If all I read are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, then a grocery list would be a short story for me. But, if you're in the habit of reading things like Poor Fellow My Country, then things like Anna Karenina seem short.
Also, this is too much talk about Mr. Dick. He was a paranoid monkey who didn't know how to properly finish anything, which is why the films of his novels are always, like, radically different, man. Or perhaps, I'm buying too much into his mainstream criticisms. I'm a trendwhore.
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