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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Nov 20, 2002
Pros: A slow ride down beyond depth. Psychology. Ontology. Love.
Cons: Not for the faint of heart: watching Tarkovsky films is hard work.
Summary: With a George Clooney/Steven Soderbergh Solaris set to open this Thanksgiving, let’s take a look back at the first version, with special attention to the book behind them both. It’ll be interesting to see which the new version will ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 12, 2007
Pros: direction, visuals, some interesting ideas
Cons: slow-paced, limited special effects, no action
Summary: When I was young, as in very young, I suppose you could say I was interested in science-fiction/fantasy type of stuff. Although in hindsight, it probably wasn’t high-quality material, since it was mostly of the Saturday morning crassly commercial ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 25, 2004
Pros: A seminal sci-fi work (especially for outside of America), ambitious themes, good performances
Cons: VERY s . l . o . w paced, weak science, implausible behavior, anti-science themes
Summary: There’s a question posed naively by the simple-minded postman, Mario, in 1994’s I
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Postino to a famous poet and deep thinker, Neruda: “Then the entire world might be a metaphor for something else?” The ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 15, 2004
Pros: Philosophical and emotional depth, some beautiful visuals.
Cons: Brutally long and slow-developing.
Summary: What is the relationship between technology and the soul? Tarkovsky's Solaris, based on Stanislaw Lem's novel by the same name, seems to offer an answer, though after viewing the movie several times, I am still struggling to define what it is. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 19, 2003
Pros: Excellent character driven story, splendid acting, not a special effects movie (for a change)
Cons: Some will definitely find the pace, er, ponderous
Summary: After just having finished reading the novel, I decided to plunk down my hard-earned money (at a suggested retail of $39.99!) and purchase Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Solaris in the Criterion Collection DVD edition. With such a steep asking price ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 26, 2002
Pros: A thoughtful psychological study, a unique meditation on the preciousness of our humanity.
Cons: None. I'm thoroughly enthralled by the film.
Summary: About the film
A frequent theme in science fiction is that humans have become so dehumanized in their devotion to technology that they have lost touch of their emotional capacities. In SOLARIS, the 1972 film by the great Russian ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 20, 2001
Pros: This movie shines on it's new DVD release.
Cons: Film can be slow for those expecting ID4 type Science Fiction
Summary: Well, seeing as how there isn't a review of the new DVD set of Solaris, I decided to put one up. I am purposefully not going into too much detail on the film or going into spoilers which can be read in other reviews. I mainly want to talk about the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 15, 2000
Pros: It's Tarkovsky...
Cons: ...in one of his weakest performances.
Summary: I felt somewhat reluctant to write a bad review about the movie from the author I otherwise like so much, but since I have already written about the book "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem, I decided it would be an injustice to the potential readers of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 31, 2000
Pros: You can recover with therapy.
Cons: Is longer than the Triassic Era.
Summary:
Solaris is the longest movie ever made. I believe that it is in fact eternally long, that it never, ever stops. I . . . fear Solaris.
When I rented this movie, it was under the presumption that this was a foreign sci-fi classic. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 21, 2000
Pros: An interesting curiosity
Cons: Oh mama! Don't get me started!
Summary: This is one of those films that makes it into the vocabulary of every film critic for no clear reasons. I believe Roger Ebert called it "eerie," and I think I've heard "important" come from lesser critics.
Truth is, this ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 10, 1999
Pros: One of the most beautiful films ever made ...
Cons: Not for the impatient, and not transferred well to video ...
Summary: The fundamental questions asked by Stanislaw Lem's Solaris are these: if we were to encounter alien intelligence--here, an entire ocean of seeming sentience--if we were to encounter the absolutely Other, how would we communicate with it? Would we even be ... read more
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