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I'm sorry...I wanted to like this but it was so...SO...poorly written.


That stolen bike scene was laughable but in the wrong way.

This movie is SO aware of itself that if it wasn't Rotoscoped, it would be completely worthless.

Everyone's AAAAAAAAACTING is so over-the-top that you can just tell that the director thought that seeing Woody Harrelson flail around in roto would be so cool without realizing that the story, dialogue and acting are pathetic.

Nice paint job, guys. Next time, try actually putting an engine in the car next time.



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Huh. I actually thought this was very well written, and the people who decided on the winners of the British Science Fiction Award apparently agree with me. I'm sure you're credentials are impeccable, though. I mean, it's not like Philip K Dick was an internationally recognized author possessed of a vast amount of prolific talent or anything. I'm sure your roman-a-clef about the tribulations of long-term drug use is so much more richly detailed and hews closer to the alabaster bone of truth.

Or, (and this is in all probability more likely), you're a talentless, clueless moron who gets off on trolling everything and anything with negative commentary. People probably roll their eyes when they see you coming. Oh well. Better luck next life, I guess.

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I enjoyed the movie but I agree about the overacting. In the DVD extras the actors mentioned that they overacted because they new it would be rotoscoped and it would help it seem more cartoonish. However, I felt the overacting was a bit cringe inducing and the movie would have been better if they had acted as if it were live action.

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^ That.

I at first thought it was badly written, but then realized halfway through it's pretty close to PKD words and style. The acting (and sound design... it doesn't help that you can really feel the soundstage) is just horrible.

Not super impressed with most camerawork either. Mostly impossibly boring, pedestrian.

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That stolen bike scene was laughable but in the wrong way.

This movie is SO aware of itself that if it wasn't Rotoscoped, it would be completely worthless.

Everyone's AAAAAAAAACTING is so over-the-top that you can just tell that the director thought that seeing Woody Harrelson flail around in roto would be so cool without realizing that the story, dialogue and acting are pathetic.

Nice paint job, guys. Next time, try actually putting an engine in the car next time.

Are you sure you weren't just tired? Maybe you shouldn't judge a movie when you're half-asleep... just like you shouldn't drive a car when you're half asleep.

Or maybe you're just in desperate need of sex? So you come on the internet and insult movies to harvest confidence.

Be excellent to each other... and party on dudes!

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Well I can just say you're watching it wrong.

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*eyes sloooooooooooooooooolwly pop out and extend to screen, wobble about it, as if licking it, throbbing erratically with occasional spurts and sprinklings of tears*
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