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Soderbergh tackles Solaris
According to a good portion of reviewers here this movie is a remake of the Tarkovsky's film... so I guess in a same misguided sense Coppola's Dracula is a remake of Murnau's Nosferatu, etc... ummm, Riiiiight. <
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>Anyway, the fact that many reviewers here dismiss the film up-front because they think it's a remake and not an adaptaion of the book is interesting. <
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>The film itself is of course another shot at Lem's novel. Again, with emphasis put on different aspects than the book (contact with an extremely alien `intelligence'), and different aspects than in Tarkovsky's film (spirituality? god? can't say for sure...). <
>This one concerns itself with the relationship between character Kelvin and his wife or possibly between Kelvin and his memories of his wife, depends on how to look at it. <
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>The film has a smallish feel to it, a big wholywood spectacle it isn't. Good sense of the future from the presence of many suitable props in the scenery, I'd say 95% of the scenes take place in a confined space, a room, a space station, etc. Strong acting. Bittersweet ending. <
>It's a psychological drama, not an action fest... <
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>Never understood why they replaced Sartorius(?) with a completely different character (Gordon?) <
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>Overall, more like 4.5 stars really, but i gave it 4 from fear of being ridiculed by the oh-no-a-remake-of-Tarkovsky's-masterpiece crowd <
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Interesting and dream-like
I enjoyed Solaris. It isn't a film for everyone and I don't think it tries to be. The pacing is good - nice and slow! Just the way I like it! Too many films seem to want to rush me to some place before I have had a chance to really engage with the visions, sounds, words, music and ideas inside the film. Solaris did give me a bit of breathing space in this respect. <
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>It is a very handsome film and the special effects, although modest in comparison to some recent science fiction films, are effective. <
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>In some respects this film is really a fantasy rather than a science fiction - it deals with a very strange "what if?" and this question is not about technology, society or man's relationship with his artefacts and machines. It also looks at some psychological reactions. <
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>I was only disappointed by the fact that we were give so little information about the apparently sentient planet, Solaris. Surely, the people would have gained some information about this strange object? <
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>The quiet, ambient music composed for this film was particularly good and I wholeheartedly recommend the soundtrack. It contains some of the most mysterious and beguiling ambient music I've heard. <
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Does Philip Glass make films now?
This film is an unbearably boring, irritatingly pretentious waste of celluloid. Were it filmed digitally, it would have been a waste of precious binary code. It raises rather under-elaborated metaphysical questions about life and death (at a sub-glacial, coma inducing pace) then fails to provide any meaningful message. After 90 minutes of waiting for something to happen, something actually does, for which I was extremely grateful: the credits rolled. Video stores should be forced to apply warning stickers to the boxes.