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Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #132675  by RentCavalier
 Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:10 am
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life

See this movie. I guarantee you, it will change how you think about the world. Absolutely one of the best philosophy pieces I've heard.

Got a great cast of intellectuals and some celebrities too--Lewis Black does a voice--and it's directed by Scanner Darkly's Richard Linklighter, and down in the same style too.

 #132676  by Blotus
 Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:15 am
I've seen it. However, the rotoscoping technique used in WL, and later SD, is all I recall about the movie... other than that I liked it. Perhaps a second viewing is in order.

 #132677  by RentCavalier
 Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:28 am
Blotus wrote:I've seen it. However, the rotoscoping technique used in WL, and later SD, is all I recall about the movie... other than that I liked it. Perhaps a second viewing is in order.
It really is worth seeing again and again.

Preferably, for each time, under the influence of any number of illicit substances.

 #132719  by KluYa
 Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:15 pm
I own this movie in my collection although I haven't watched it in years. It's not for everybody but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 #132733  by SineSwiper
 Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:18 am
A Scanner Darkly is an excellent movie. First movie I've seen that approached both negative sides of the drug wars at the same time.

Also, I hate those Schwabb commercials with the rotoscoping in it. It's like they are saying "Hey, rotoscoping is cool and popular, even though it has nothing to do with the commercial!" It would be like having a stock broker just liquid metal morph to his office and start talking to the camera... and there was absolutely no reason for it.