Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by joe2cooled (A) on January 17, 2003 at 21:03:25

In Reply to: My question is, does your dog do that while watching Solaris? posted by Audiophilander on January 17, 2003 at 07:38:42:

now that was really funny and not stale. lol
You do have humour after all.
But no he does not do that while watching Solaris, he usually sleeps when I watch it. (surprise!?)
I was using starwars just as an example, and by the way I enjoyed the first 3 (old) movies very much.
Aha, so you like other movies too, good to know.
Of course it is always a big question of taste as well what one likes and doesn't. But maybe you got roughly my point with expensive and primitiv holywood movies anyway.
I put the word "art" in quotation marks, since that is what other people use to refer to it, I do not like the word at all myself.
And I completely support your opinion that not everything declared as art and made with pretendious stereotypes is worth even watching.
In case of solaris I think one would have to see it in a different light since it was made in Russia when the country was still under dictatorship.
Just quickly to tell you what I like about the movie is the atmosphere it is creating (somebody said it is better than taking dope), this of course is not effecting everybody the same of course and I can understand that it does nothing to you exept make you sleepy, but hey as you said earlier, it saves you the sleeping pills and it is completely untoxic, think about that, and once you have it on DVD (or video) it is very cheap to in comparison to expensive pills. So it could be of benefit to you after all.
You made your point clear now but nevertheless I think you might have missed a lot of the story. So I ask once again, have you read the book? (just out of interest). If not I highly recommend it after all, but of course it is slow and probably tiring for you, though worth the effort I think.
Apart from that there are many exellent books written by Stanislaw Lem, even a few funny ones and also some thrillers. I found "the invincible" very gripping and "thus quoth Golem" (I think that is the English title. I did not read it in English) extremely interesting from a theoretical and technical point of few. (Do not read "memoires found in the bath tub" !! Even I found that tiring and boring).
I think S.Lem is one of the greatest SF authors and I do not stand alone with that opinion.

Kia Ora
Joe