Re:War of the Worlds
[quote=”Hollydays”]LOL! Yes – dead rotting donkey for both of them!![/quote]
I found the original to be quite moving and to be dealing with a unique theme.
Is it that this kind of movie is not to your taste?
Or perhaps it is that you read the original book by Stanislav Lem and were disatissfied with the movie adaptations of the book?
The original “Solyaris” directed by Andrei Tarkovsky is a Russian flm. It is slow but to some of us, but not boring at all.
But of course, I might explain that when i watch a screen I don’t require the camera to be moving or the people to be moving or things exploding as per the ADD generation’s needs.
Here is a user review that might explain the attraction of the original:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/#comment
“The thing that generally stands out most about this movie is that it is long. Very long. And Russian. Very Russian.
It raises a lot of interesting questions about the nature of humanity, conscience, love, etc. which, honestly, I’d never thought to ask before, and don’t care enough to answer now that they HAVE been asked. (Will Shame really save humanity? Who knows? Maybe. How will it do that? Haven’t a clue. Now what’s for lunch?) That’s not to say I didn’t like the movie. I did. It’s very beautifully shot, such that I think it would be worth purchasing, even if I never sit through the whole thing again, just so that I can have scenes like “City of the Future” on hand as a reference for my own film-making endeavors.”