Darren Zenko wrote in The Toronto Star : "Canadian SF writer and broadcaster Minister Faust (author of the recent novel From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain ) agrees that Blade Runner 's reputation opened Hollywood doors to the representatives of the Dick estate, but disagrees as to the artistic merit of Scott's hard-boiled adaptation , illustrating a hard and often hard-argued division between what might be called the Purist and Relativist approaches to cinematic Dick. "'Hollywood,' says Faust, 'doesn't understand s--t about Philip K. Dick. They don't even care that Blade Runner was a bomb – $25 million to make, took in $31 million to date – and was an inversion of the novel's ideas and morality ... a travesty! But these same people remember Scott's visuals and Vangelis' music and they think, "Hey, classy." "'No adaptation that I've seen has been a good adaptation. Total Recall is fun, but it's a foul-smell...
