Hooray for Philip K. Dick

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2002)

I saw Vanilla Sky on DVD last night and liked it immensely. I was enjoying it right up to the moment when i realized this was based on a pirated Philip K. Dick idea. Ubik (published in the late sixties) goes in to much greater detail on the issue of 'half-life' (not wanting to give any details of the movie away for those who don't know Ubik and haven't seen the film!).
The movie was entertaining although not as entertaining and twisted as Ubik (or Cosmic Puppets, Time Out of Joint, Eye in the Sky and dozens of more mind-bending stories from PKD, for that matter) and the soundtrack was quite pleasant, too.
In short I highly recommend reading all the PKD you can find and, if you have time afterwards, see Vanilla Sky.