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by typon 2400 days ago
Because a lot of people find the animation style weird. I love that movie though
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The style is known as rotoscoping:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

A Scanner Darkly was made by Richard Linklater. He used the same technique in Waking Life. Recently, it's also used in the Undone Amazon Prime series (recommended).

If we're talking about overlooked movies with weird animation styles based on books by titans of '70s science fiction, i'll mention The Congress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBl43lMJY0

It is, IMHO, better than that trailer suggests.