Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Fretless (A) on March 10, 2002 at 21:09:45

In Reply to: If you would like to hang yourself... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 17, 2002 at 09:15:28:

... I think you owe it to yourself to read the book if you haven't already. Arguably Stanislaw Lem’s best. Personally, I love the movie, but I admit that I sometimes fast-forward through that grueling drive to the spaceport; no dialog of any kind, just the monotonous hum of the car’s engine for ten goddamn minutes! My wife believes that this is characteristic of Russian movies and allows the audience to take advantage of the warm theater. You could show them a continuous loop of that driving scene (or even American network TV reruns *hack*) and they probably wouldn’t mind. ; )

Eden, The Invincible, Futurological Congress, and Cyberiad aren't bad reads either...