Solaris

[threeplusfire]

I just saw a preview for this remake of Solaris billing it as "the greatest love story." This is not a love story! If I get my hands on Cameron and Soderbergh, I will make them wish their mothers and fathers had never so much as kissed! What were they thinking, putting George Clooney in there?

The real Solaris was directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and released in 1972. It's one of the creepiest, strangest sci-fi movies ever, and based on a novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. I love this movie. I think it is brilliant.

Comments

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Stanislaw Lem rocks my crotch.
Soderberg, not so much.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Lem is brilliant.
Soderbergh, he's broken my heart. Bastard.

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

I never quite grokked why someone would make a remake. It's befuddling the masterpieces of previous eras and kids these days all think that things such as the recent Psycho and Ocean's Eleven and various other remakes are originals. It's disconcerting.

I understand the desire for artistic license and such. But reinterpreting a movie based on an iconoclastic book is grounds for beating directors with golf clubs and jumper cables. The whole point for the remake isn't about turning a film into something it's not, right?

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I can understand how someone might want a chance to present a different vision of a story. Hell, that's why you have all these movies based off Shakespeare that are set in 19th century Ireland, or modern day California, or what not. That I don't mind.

That said, I've seen several remakes of classic movies and I just didn't think they were anywhere near as cool as the orignals. I mean, that remake of Sabrina was awful.

[neflhim.livejournal.com]

Hmm. What the hell.

Do you know where I might find a copy of Cyberiad in Polish or Russian? A member of the book club is looking for this, as much to check the Electronic Bard's haircut poem as anything. He has exhausted all options he knows, and some of us are looking around a bit.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not off the top of my head. You're probably going to have to get a copy sent from somewhere in Poland or Russia, maybe the Czech Republic or the Ukraine. Unless you can find a bookstore in a larger city like Chicago or New York that's got some sci-fi reprints. That might be your best shot.