Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by joe2coold@icqmail.com on January 13, 2003 at 19:24:54

In Reply to: Interesting.... posted by Joe S on December 31, 2002 at 10:40:05:

found TTT draging on too much as well. Of course I read the book before (twice) and therefore looked at the movie with different eyes. I loved the book (it is just a fairy tail, but nice), but why drag out every little detail in the movie? Especially those fighting scenes just don't seem to end. Where are the good old movies where you see one guy swinging his sword at another guys head and then "cut" and you imagine the rest. Why do we have to be bombarded by rolling heads and blood all over the place? Is it not exciting enough without it?
What I liked though were the scenes with a long view of the scenery, since I am a NewZealander myself and I just love that country.

Solaris> I am suprised that you had that film at the theatre in the states. It is very old and I thought it was all forgotten (or am I talking about another one).
Again, I read the book 25 years ago, but in this case I liked the movie. But maybe if you have not the read the book first, you might not appreciate the film as much. I can only recommend to read the book (Stanislaw Lem, Solaris).
By the way I am the one who wrote the thread about the solaris DVD, but I hadn't read this thread first when I wrote mine. Strange that this coincides.