What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

grindy · 08-18-2018, 12:44 PM

You should check out the book. It's quite different and one of the best sci-fi books ever. Although I'm not sure how much it loses in translation.

~~MicShazam~~ · 08-18-2018, 12:51 PM

I've watched precisely 2 Tarkovsky movies and that's all I will bother with. There's having patient pacing and taking the time to set a mood, and then there's just straight up wasting my time.

grindy · 08-18-2018, 12:52 PM

Movies can make me cry because they're sad, but only Tarkovsky's movies can make me cry through their sheer beauty.

**Frownland** · 08-18-2018, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

You should check out the book. It's quite different and one of the best sci-fi books ever. Although I'm not sure how much it looses in translation.

Oof.

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I've watched precisely 2 Tarkovsky movies and that's all I will bother with. There's having patient pacing and taking the time to set a mood, and then there's just straight up wasting my time.

Rational af. What did you see? I think that Ivan's Childhood is his most "accessible".

grindy · 08-18-2018, 01:00 PM

Thx. Fixed.

~~MicShazam~~ · 08-18-2018, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Rational af. What did you see? I think that Ivan's Childhood is his most "accessible".

His movies bore the **** out of me. That trumps whatever else he might have to offer.

I watched Stalker and Solaris. At least his version of Solaris was better than the one with Clooney.

**Frownland** · 08-18-2018, 01:07 PM

Straight up eye candy though, it's like jacking off my corneas. You should check out Ivan's Childhood.

Andrei Rublev is the only film of his that I felt was drawn out.

~~MicShazam~~ · 08-18-2018, 01:09 PM

So in Solaris, you didn't find the 10 minute bit with stock footage of cars driving on a freeway to be drawn out?

Are you some sort of monk? I'm patient, but not that patient.

grindy · 08-18-2018, 01:10 PM

Bela Tarr though.

**Frownland** · 08-18-2018, 01:12 PM

It's not that hard to watch things that are visually captivating imo. The car scene is an interesting sort of intermission/breather in the movie but is by and large unnecessary. That said I still think it looks nice. I put Stalker several notches higher than Solaris. I think it's his best alongside The Mirror.

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Movies can make me cry because they're sad, but only Tarkovsky's movies can make me cry through their sheer beauty. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Thx. Fixed. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Straight up eye candy though, it's like jacking off my corneas. You should check out Ivan's Childhood. Andrei Rublev is the only film of his that I felt was drawn out. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Bela Tarr though. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I've watched precisely 2 Tarkovsky movies and that's all I will bother with. There's having patient pacing and taking the time to set a mood, and then there's just straight up wasting my time.

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	So in Solaris, you didn't find the 10 minute bit with stock footage of cars driving on a freeway to be drawn out? Are you some sort of monk? I'm patient, but not that patient.

08-18-2018, 01:12 PM	#21950 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	It's not that hard to watch things that are visually captivating imo. The car scene is an interesting sort of intermission/breather in the movie but is by and large unnecessary. That said I still think it looks nice. I put Stalker several notches higher than Solaris. I think it's his best alongside The Mirror. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x