Radio Free Albemuth

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Audience Member It's a great movie, just has a lower budget. Philip K Dick gets a little different in this but as usual centers around drugs and paranoia of fascism. Still a cool movie. Good cast. Katheryn Winnick is a fox. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Horrendous movie. A $3.9 million dollar budget and $5,600 in box office revenues. That says it all. If you done something wrong and feel the need to punish yourself watch this mess. Until I watched this "How It Ends" was my choice for worst movie ever made. This is far worse. Do yourself a favor and eat broken glass. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Let me start off by saying I am a huge PKD fan. I've read over half of his novels and tons of his short stories. I was excited to see that one of my favorite books of his got made into a movie. Sadly, I wish it hadn't. "Radio Free Albemuth" on paper is such a great story - full of intrigue, conspiracy, plot twists and surprises. This film version falls flat though. The acting is wooden, it looks worse than a student film and the music is awful. That last point is especially key because music features in this story in an important way! Please heed my warning and stay away from this movie if you're a fan of the book. Or even if you're a fan of movies! It's such a waste of time. I wish I could have been warned beforehand because I regret subjecting myself (and my poor wife) to it! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Fun, faithful adaptation of a late PKD work. Not my favorite novel, but a top contender for best real adaptation of his work to the screen. Sad indeed that it's never caught on, since it's so extremely relevant in 45's Amurrukuh. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review corkball It held my interest late at night. Maybe in the day I would have wandered off. Some interesting ideas, but the plotline was a but muddled and didn't always make sense. They were mashing up politics of today with that of Rome, and there were references and parallels to the Roman Christians, etc. It was a bit too much of a mash up that didn't work. Acting was so-so, and the lack of extras and background noise was distracting (why are 2 guys playing basketball in a gym during the day BY THEMSELVES???). Obviously low budget as well, although they obviously weren't going for blockbuster. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Back when Ridley Scott made Blade Runner, it wasn't that well-received by critics, and for many years ended up relegated to being a "cult classic". That seems to be the fate that awaits adaptations of Phillip K Dick's stories into movies that try to keep sight of the Question behind them Radio Free Albemuth, at its core, involves real people like you, me, your neighbor down the road, that kid you knew in grade school. In a time when "gritty realism" in movies is neither gritty nor realistic, it eschews the usual "enhancements" demanded by entertainment to stay true to the original story. Part of that is undoubtedly because as an Indiefilm it was budget constrained, but it is more trying to stay true to the source material without adding in the bells and whistles people demand. RFA isn't a movie you can just watch and come away feeling good about yourself after, but it *is* PKD - given Shea Wigham seems to have been channelling PKD while playing him in the movie, just watch his performance and you'll see what I mean :) Blade Runner is no longer a "cult classic", now it's "visionary" and "prophetic". To some, Radio Free Albemuth already qualifies RFA is about a group of normal people, flawed warts and all, in an impossible situation, trying to figure out a way to live when the odds are against them. In retelling that story the movie keeps to one precept of PKD's works that most movie adaptations seem to have forgotten: Real life doesn't come with a soundtrack Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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