• Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Blade runner. Much better than “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” but it is only loosely based off it.

    PS: when reading a book after watching a film, it usually feels like the book is much better, fills in details, separates scenes which a film had mixed together or altogether done away with. E.g. The Shining, LotR, Dune…but for Androids I just felt “what, that’s it?”

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      1 year ago

      The truth of the matter is that a lot of PKD and Heinlien era sci-fi was very focused on exploring a single theme - that works well literary but isn’t rich enough for TV/Movie - so those works generally got richer and usually were by transitioned by genuine fans that tried to keep the theme and core message.

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      They’re almost too different to compare imo, but both the book and the movie are top-tier.