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I'd probably go with the Matrix. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was much better then the movie Bladerunner.
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Indeed, I am highly ambivalent about Blade Runner. PKD was not a great writer by any rational criteria, but was (I think) a good ideas man and if I had never read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep I suspect I would like Blade Runner (in all 3 versions I own including the bloated 4 disc set
) a good deal more. PKD has been the victim of a substantial number of book-to-film crimes and is not in a position to defend himself.
I thought A Scanner Darkly was the best PKD adaptation I have seen , the mood and presentation suit the material pretty well.
Screamers (Second variety) was a bit meh
Total Recall (We can remember it for you wholesale) was okay
Paycheck was wholly off-beam
Minority Report misssed the whole point completely
Impostor was not bad but rather stretched
Next (The Golden Man) was a bloody abomination (Cris is not human or benign, that is the whole point)
Now a film vesion of "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" would be worth waiting for...