[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by chairman of the bored

solaris-Sloooooow, but ultimately engrossing. around 8/10

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I find that once you've got through the first hour you kind of stick with it, but that first hour is torture. Same with Stalker. You sort of have to mentally adjust to their pace, then they're fine.

i love the pace of solaris-- it's absolutely delicious. if it was faster it would kill the haunting mood and it would become a star trek episode. i don't know what sodherberg did with his remake, probably something like that, which is why i haven't seen it-- plus the gumption of redoing tarkovsky, ha ha, sorry sodherberg but you're no tarkovsky.

anyway, you blasphemers

[Rob Instigator]

Solaris is great.

I actually was more engrossed in the first hour than the later parts!

[krastian]

 

I liked it....some good footage of Monk and his band on tour. The music was obviously great too.

[Rob Instigator]

straight no chaser is a good doc.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

the gumption of redoing tarkovsky, ha ha, sorry sodherberg but you're no tarkovsky.

I've seen that remake and, in all sincerity, it really isn't bad. I actually quite admire Soderbergh for doing it (in much the same way that I do Van Sant for his version of Psycho). The easy option would be to simply stick the originals on the shelf marked 'Classic - DO NOT TOUCH!'. I don't for a minute think either Soderbergh or Van Sant thought they were the respective equals of Tarkovsky or Hitchcock. I think both remakes were done more in the spirit of, 'I wonder what would happen if ...' rather than, 'I can do better than ...'

[MellySingsDoom]

Talking of Tarkovsky, some flid who writes for the Guardian claims to have seen "Stalker" more times than he's had hot dinners/masturbated/lied about writing for Sight And Sound in order to get laid, and I was hugely amused by the fact that he seems to have missed the entire goddamn point of the film. Ha!

[atsonicpark]

I've only seen it once. I'd like to see it that many times though!!

[afterthefact]

 

I'll elaborate more when I have the time, but for now let it suffice to say that I LOVED it.

[atsonicpark]

 

6ixtynin9 - 7/10

[me.]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

How's 3-Iron? I love the 3 Ki-Duk Kim films I've seen (Bad Guy, Real Fiction, and the Isle).

Liked it alot,i've not seen the 3 you have,but my fav so far is 'Spring,Summer,Fall,Winter ..and Spring'.
Think i might give 6ixtynin9 a watch soon.

[Danny Himself]

 

Crybaby

John Waters = YES
Traci Lords = YES
Soundtrack = YES

[viewtiful_alan]

Yesterday:

 

8/10

Tonight:

 

7.5/10

[stu666]

 

and

 

[atsonicpark]

tokyo gore police rules ass!!!!!!!

I watched santa fe. really weird family comedy with religious satanic cults and shit.

[sonic sphere]

zombie strippers! - not bad at all i thought.

[me.]

 

Who's That Knocking At My Door?

 

Intresting short film...^

In the middle of......

 

Not too sure about this one tho.

[jimbrim]

 

I liked.

[me.]

That looks intresting, (REC) ^.

[chairman of the bored]

just got my jodorowsky box set ($24 on amazon!) and im watching them sequentially...so la cravate came first...it was well-done enough...nothing insanely great or anything...fando y lis next

[pokkeherrie]

Yeah, that Jodorowsky box set is pretty great and decently priced at the moment. I got it last month for about €30. I haven't watched all of it yet though.

Originally Posted by jimbrim

 

I liked.

I loved that one, watched it in the cinema last year at a film festival while being really sleep deprived. It gave me a few freights, mainly because the sound (of the screaming etc) was so unbelievably loud. But even without that I thought the last 10 minutes (when they are up in the attic) were genuinely scary... brrr.


Solyaris is great. I don't have a problem with the pace of the average Tarkovsky film, but I can imagine it doesn't suit everyone's tastes.