S O L A R I S
by i watched this flick twice in a row last night because i just had to know the truth. once, alone. then again with audio directors commentary on. and commentary is a real treat because you get to listen to James Cameron and Steve Soderbergh discuss their craft. anyway, Solaris is an extremely mysterious space opera with beautiful visuals and awesome set design. the score is geniusly understated and extremely enjoyable. excellent writing and great acting make for a geat film experience. George Cloony really kicks it up a notch this time and Jeremy Davies is amazing. for a change, in this film, the danger isn't physical, but psychological. you don't fear for anyone's health or well-being, but for their sanity. this movie takes you through many emotional twists and turns. i was totally blown away. it's like a romantic version of 2001: a space odyssey. and it proposed something i've never thought of: frightful, unexplained resurrection led into the unwanted, imperfect immortality. this is HIGH CLASS science fiction. beautiful, poignant stuff. it gets my highest possible recommendation.
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man..funny, when I caught sight of this thread in the forum, I assumed that it'd probably somebody bashing the movie, didn't think it'd be a positive view of it...reason being, everybody I went with, and a good majority of the people i've talked to about, didn't like it at all...Guess it kinda flies over the heads of most..No oversized explosions, incesant violence, or hot female cast, so it didn't catch the interest of many. But, yeah, one of the most artistically done sci-fi movies I've ever seen..You know this is a remake right?..It was origionally a 1970's Andrei Tarkovsky movie, it was in Polish...most people think it's a new movie..The old one's pretty much the same exact thing w/less special effects
have you seen the original? let's find it and watch it with the polish girls.
hahha the polish girls will no doubt be eating through the entire movie
look below, my son. one week late. bow.
hahahaha...I don't think any of us saw that posting, lol, sorry.....RUSSIAN, POLISH, it's all the same!!!..it sounded like polish to me when I saw it...we should have the polish chicks try and translate it for us anyway, that will be funny to watch..and, then we can make fun of them for not being able to translate it, saying that they must not really be Polish, and this whole "we're from Poland thing" was all a hoax from the begining
ok. so I saw the movie. and it was ok. I wasn't a huge fan of the book after I finished it, but it was actually better than the movie story-wise. There's a whole bunch of stuff they go into in the book that would make you understand the premise so much better.
But the movie was good visually.
how about audibly?
not bad. it was better smellily though.
how about touchilliy?
hmm I read the book, wasn't extremely interested in seeing the movie after I heard how unfaithful it was.... but maybe I'll give it a shot.
there was a book...ugh i HATE seeing the movie first
yeah, a pretty famous one. by Stanislaw Lem. I think he was russian, and wrote in french or something.
i've often thought about this. which is better? being dissapointed or being happy with the movies and then reflecting what they could have done different after reading the book?
oh, blah blah blah. did you's know theres also 1972 russian film based on the book. directed by a gifted director named Tarkovsky. i have yet to see this version but i'm told it's a beautiful to behold. steve soderbergh didn't do this film to cash in, he just loved the book, the old movie and the concept and he had his own interpretation to share. and he did an amazing job. again, the film is AMAZING. i say: take each work of art at it's own merit.
now the raping of Michael Crichton's books is something worth complaining about. nearly every one of his amazing books was turned into a big budget impersonal studio driven piece of crap. save the Jurassic Park flicks, all of which i enjoyed. even though MC didn't even conceive the third one.
his wife creeped me out tho with those big brown eyes.
YEAH! especially after she regenerates and convulses! she looks right into the camera. awesome brown eyes. good stuff. on my first viewing, the convulsing looked so weird. i've never seen anything like it. it looked impossible. then on the directors commentary, soderbergh said he just ran the mag backwards and so what you're actually seeing is her convulsing backwards. it gave her movements a strange, almost alien quality. anyway, EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS MOVIE!