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10-22-2011, 12:09 AM
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Adjustment Bureau
Has anyone seen this? We watched it tonight...GREAT movie! Lots of interesting implications...
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10-22-2011, 12:15 AM
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I wanted to see it. It looked like, coming from fundy land, that it would be very appropriate.
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10-22-2011, 03:19 AM
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I loved The Adjustment Bureau. Very well made movie.
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10-22-2011, 09:25 AM
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great movie. I thought the whole thing really worked, the ending didn't even go off track like I was expecting it to.

A shade below Inception from a visual/plot perspective, but quite a good flick for sure.
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10-22-2011, 09:40 AM
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It was a pretty decent concept. Not a bad way to spend a couple of hours.
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10-22-2011, 12:55 PM
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Philip K Dick!!!!!! Was the MAN!!!!! (wrote it) I have read most everything he ever wrote. Big fan! (DORK! GEEK!)

Other movies made out of PKD stories that you might have seen, or might enjoy: Minority Report (from story of the same name), Total Recall (Story: "We Can Remember it for you wholesale"), Screamers (Story: "Second Variety"), A Scanner Darkly (same name, animated), Blade Runner ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")... he was such a genius.

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10-22-2011, 01:23 PM
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Mr. NDTK picked this one on Netflix and I thought I wasn't going to like it--thought it was more of a shoot em up/chase thriller. While it had some of the elements of a thriller, there was a great love story interwoven. Casting was spot on and (without spoiling anything), the door scenes were looked so smooth! (Between this movie and Monsters, Inc. I'm beginning to wonder if doors are really "just" doors or if there is more to it that I'm missing...lol)

@Daisy--the hubby has seen Minority Report and I've seen Total Recall (can't forget Ah-nold in that one!) I didn't realize PKD did Total Recall though.
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10-22-2011, 02:41 PM (This post was last modified: 10-22-2011 02:43 PM by captain_solo.)
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RE: Adjustment Bureau
(10-22-2011 12:55 PM)DaisyDeadhead Wrote:  Philip K Dick!!!!!! Was the MAN!!!!! (wrote it) I have read most everything he ever wrote. Big fan! (DORK! GEEK!)

Other movies made out of PKD stories that you might have seen, or might enjoy: Minority Report (from story of the same name), Total Recall (Story: "We Can Remember it for you wholesale"), Screamers (Story: "Second Variety"), A Scanner Darkly (same name, animated), Blade Runner ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")... he was such a genius.

R.I.P. -- died during making of Blade Runner.

Minority Report is one of my favorite movies - in part because it got me reading everything PK Dick wrote

Also like the Nick Cage movie Next (Story: The Golden Man) and Paycheck (story: Paycheck)
ok, so I basically have like everything he wrote, and the movies have mostly been good adaptations - probably because they were short stories and so the screenwriters could just take the genius of an idea that he developed in short form and go wild with it
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10-22-2011, 05:47 PM
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(10-22-2011 02:41 PM)captain_solo Wrote:  
(10-22-2011 12:55 PM)DaisyDeadhead Wrote:  Philip K Dick!!!!!! Was the MAN!!!!! (wrote it) I have read most everything he ever wrote. Big fan! (DORK! GEEK!)

Other movies made out of PKD stories that you might have seen, or might enjoy: Minority Report (from story of the same name), Total Recall (Story: "We Can Remember it for you wholesale"), Screamers (Story: "Second Variety"), A Scanner Darkly (same name, animated), Blade Runner ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")... he was such a genius.

R.I.P. -- died during making of Blade Runner.

Minority Report is one of my favorite movies - in part because it got me reading everything PK Dick wrote

Also like the Nick Cage movie Next (Story: The Golden Man) and Paycheck (story: Paycheck)
ok, so I basically have like everything he wrote, and the movies have mostly been good adaptations - probably because they were short stories and so the screenwriters could just take the genius of an idea that he developed in short form and go wild with it
Then you probably know he was a major gnostic, old school... have you read any of the biographies about him?
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10-23-2011, 06:51 AM
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RE: Adjustment Bureau
(10-22-2011 05:47 PM)DaisyDeadhead Wrote:  
(10-22-2011 02:41 PM)captain_solo Wrote:  Minority Report is one of my favorite movies - in part because it got me reading everything PK Dick wrote

Also like the Nick Cage movie Next (Story: The Golden Man) and Paycheck (story: Paycheck)
ok, so I basically have like everything he wrote, and the movies have mostly been good adaptations - probably because they were short stories and so the screenwriters could just take the genius of an idea that he developed in short form and go wild with it
Then you probably know he was a major gnostic, old school... have you read any of the biographies about him?

makes sense, his novels all have very striking duality
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