Tarkovski's Solaris vs Soderburgh's Solaris vs Dark City vsThe Matrix?

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Do you choose to live in a dream and if so which one do you choose to live in? Why?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know, but living in Soderbergh's Solaris would be terrible. I haven't seen Dark City.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, I'd probably choose Tarkovsky's Solaris, because I find a weird kind of comfort in that kind of tedium.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

I think Dark City smells of oil and fumes
Tarkovsky's Solaris smells of set paint
The Matrix smells like deodorant and latex clothing
and Soderbergh's Solaris smells like an empty office.
I don't like any of those!
I would take Lem's Solaris. I bet the ocean smells lovely if it tries.

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

They're all essentially the same film. Dark City even takes the closing shot from Tarkovski's Solaris, and the aesthetic similarities between Dark City and The Matrix are astonishing when you consider they were made at the same time. I really like Soderburgh's version though.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

it's interesting to note the differences as much as the similarities i think. the quasi-mystical-Christian overtones of the two Solaris pictures clash with the more direct us-vs-them thing going on in Dark City and The Matrix--i dont think the line between desire and reality is quite as distinct in Solaris

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I'd like to live in the part of Dark City where J Connelly lives. To talk, I mean.

Dark City has a good first few reels. I like the Cenobite appropriations. (Good band name.)

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Thursday, 26 February 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

that was pre-sickly thin connelly too.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 26 February 2004 07:17 (twenty years ago) link

nine years pass...

dark city worth catching?

― The Finnish Question........after question......after question....a (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link

Yes, definitely.

― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link

good enough- i've to bring along a sci-fi flick to a movie night and it was that or solaris, as it happens

― The Finnish Question........after question......after question....a (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link

Assume you mean the Soderbergh. Which is good too, but might get lost on an unsympathetic crowd.

― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link

i only truck with unsympathetic crowds tbr

― the norman wisdom of gaffers (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

Kind of figured that, tbh. Well then, do as you see fit.

― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

i'll take both, throw em to the wolves

― the norman wisdom of gaffers (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 April 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link

Ya that was vg

― the norman wisdom of gaffers (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

Didja listen to Ebert's commentary?

― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link

Not first time round. Directors cut, i wonder where they found twelve mins to cut tbh, it was pretty packed as was

― the norman wisdom of gaffers (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

Saw it for the second time last night. My problem with this movie is my not accepting Kelvin's wife as interesting: she's a post-sixties male panic idea of femininity.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link

panic pixie lem girl

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link

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