The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick

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Audience Member Nice info but the delivery is terrible. Feels very amateurish and the animated sequences get old REAL fast. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member I just watched this "documentary". I'm at a loss for words to express anything good about this piece... Which can only be described as a high school quality, steaming pile of sh!t. It pains me to say something so harsh about a documentary, because I usually love documentaries. I don't usually write reviews, but felt it necessary to warn others who might want to learn about Philip K. Dick. This low budget mistake is a dis-service and will turn watchers off to PKD through sheer boredom- which I can only assume is the exact opposite of what the producers had originally intended. Speaking of producers... Mark Steensland and Andy Massagli give credit to themselves no less than 6 TIMES EACH in the opening/closing credits for this festering ball of cat vomit . One of them lists himself as "Camera Director"... Which consists entirely of placing a camera on a tripod with seemingly no regard for lighting, then making sure that camera NEVER moves. Bravo. Unrated and uninteresting, this is an hour and 21 minutes I can't get back. Not only that, but what a horrible loogey to hock on such a great writer as PKD. Thanks a lot. In contrast, the episode of Prophets of science fiction dedicated to PKD is excellent! And the camera moves. And Ridley Scott doesn't credit himself 6 times... Although, he deserves it far more than these hacks. Thank you, drive-thru. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Talking heads reminiscing. Meager biographical content. Puerile production values. The communication of three trivial facts burns off the entire first hour of the film: PKD did drugs, PKD once had his safe broken into, PKD had a hallucinogenic experience after he had his wisdom teeth out. Eject, eject, eject. What would cause a producer to think this "work" could qualify as a biopic is beyond me. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member interesting doc great interviews from friends etc. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't know a lot about Philip K. Dick's personal life and this was not a good place to start. The film begins by discussing a break-in at Dick's house where "something" was stolen from a safe. Not knowing the author's history it took me a long time to understand why this was at all significant. Also, the device of an animated man writing on a typewriter and then having the camera show what he'd written was very cumbersome and slowed down the film. I didn't finish watching this one. Maybe I'll come back to it after I'm more familiar with the author. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't know a lot about Philip K. Dick's personal life and this was not a good place to start. The film begins by discussing a break-in at Dick's house where "something" was stolen from a safe. Not knowing the author's history it took me a long time to understand why this was at all significant. Also, the device of an animated man writing on a typewriter and then having the camera show what he'd written was very cumbersome and slowed down the film. I didn't finish watching this one. Maybe I'll come back to it after I'm more familiar with the author. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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