From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 17:36:13 MST
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:14 PM John Grigg starman2100@lycos.com
wrote:
> I enjoyed the original Russian film very much, though it
> was very long and slow in places. A viewer just had to
> let the film work it's strange and mesmerizing mood
> onto them.
That's Tarkovsky's style. It's not meant to be a pure action film.
It's not an action story.
> I wonder how the remake will be having gotten the
> "hollywood" treatment. In some ways it MAY be better
> than the original. My one complaint of the Russian film
> was it did not show the planet (the spacestation orbited)
> and its lifeforms as described in the novel.
That's one thing that can be done better with today's effects...
> George Clooney is a gifted actor in my opinion. I hope he
> got a good script. I am still shocked Hollywood would
> choose this film to be made!!
I'm shocked that a so so directory would attempt to remake a great film
by one of the greatest directors of all time. This happened once
before: "Psycho." I fear the results might be much the same. It's too
bad because there are other Lem stories that could be adapted to film,
such as _His Master's Voice_ (which would make a nice put down of the
awful movie "Contact") and _Eden_.
> It seems far too cerebral
> and slow-moving for the them.
We have to see the results. It might not be the same as the Tarkovsky
rendition. I fear it will be crap cinema, but we shall see.
Happy Holidays!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jan 15 2003 - 17:58:27 MST