[Cardinal Rob]

Another K Dick-inspired gem:
http://www.electricsheep.org/

[tesla69]

"Now we are occupying the country, that has changed. According to the United Nations, 2006 was the biggest opium harvest in history, smashing the previous record by 60 per cent. This year will be even bigger.
Our economic achievement in Afghanistan goes well beyond the simple production of raw opium. In fact Afghanistan no longer exports much raw opium at all. It has succeeded in what our international aid efforts urge every developing country to do. Afghanistan has gone into manufacturing and 'value-added' operations.
It now exports not opium, but heroin. Opium is converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in kitchens but in factories. Millions of gallons of the chemicals needed for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads, improved by American aid, with Nato troops.
How can this have happened, and on this scale? The answer is simple. The four largest players in the heroin business are all senior members of the Afghan government – the government that our soldiers are fighting and dying to protect."

[jon boy]

loved the film and its strange animation feel. i have not read the book but no doubt i will have too.

[alyasa]

Fred: [voiceover] Crazy job they gave me. But if I wasn't doing it, someone else would be. And they might get it wrong. They might set Arctor up, plant drugs on him and collect a reward. Better it be me, despite the disadvantages. Just protecting everyone from Barris is justification in itself. What the hell am I talking about? I must be nuts. I know Bob Arctor. He's a good person. He's up to nothing. At least nothing too bad. In fact, he works for the Orange County Sheriff's office covertly, which is probably why Barris is after him. But that wouldn't explain why the Orange County Sheriff's office is after him. Something big is definitely going down in this house. This rundown, rubble-filled house with its weed patch yard and cat box that never gets emptied. What a waste of a truly good house. So much could be done with it. A family and children could live here. It was designed for that. Such a waste. They ought to confiscate it and put it to better use. I'm supposed to act like they aren't here. Assuming there's a "they" at all. It may just be my imagination. Whatever it is that's watching, it's not human, unlike little dark eyed Donna. It doesn't ever blink. What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again. I'll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too.

[atsonicpark]

So glad we didn't see thousands of films featuring that rotoscoping effect in the wake of this film and Waking Life..

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Bastian

Minority Report

blech

fucking horrible!

[pbradley]

There's a scene in the movie A Scanner Darkly where the characters drive on the freeway and pass the off ramp to my house.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

So glad we didn't see thousands of films featuring that rotoscoping effect in the wake of this film and Waking Life..

heee heeeee heeee

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

So glad we didn't see thousands of films featuring that rotoscoping effect in the wake of this film and Waking Life..

I remember when Wiley was wroking with Linklater animating a part of Waking Life. They hoped that it would allow for a new method of animation. Instead, we got endless fucking commercials using the technology.
I thougth scanner darkly was very good, but I would have preferred to see winona ryder in the flesh, as in, naked, as in, shaved and spread for comfy licking.....

 

[alyasa]

Isn't that Spock's mum? Grosss.....