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[Moyer78]

What really pisses me off is that it's a Phillip K. Dick story.

Technically true, however, upon reading the actual description of the story,

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

you realize that Next is probably even less faithful to "The Golden Man" as The Wicker Man was to the story that inspired it.

The titular "Golden Man" is a feral young man named Cris with gold-colored skin, who does not appear to be sapient, but possesses the ability to see into the future (specifically, the ability to see all possible outcomes from any single action, described in the story as similar to a chess player with the ability to see all possible moves 5 steps ahead).

That's what I mean though.  I've read the story.  Now who's idea was it to change a great sci-fi story by a brilliant sci-fi writer into a piece of shit movie where a bad magician sees the future for some unknown reason.  Hollywood is so wrong about the public's desire for sci-fi movies.

Hollywood seems to view PKD as a convenient way to give their crappy scifi movies some respectability.
Whenever I see that 'based on' credit now I just assume that means they thought the title of the book was cool and wanted to use it.

If the movie "Next " is based off "The Golden Man" then the movie "Braveheart" is based off my life in that we both wore face paint at one time.

[Goshzilla]

I thought you were going to say William Wallace shagged the queen. You'd think an accomplishment like that would be recorded down in the annals of history.