[boris]

"Solaris" a Hollywood perversion of Stanislaw Lem's novel.

I admit I liked neither.

However--get a copy of Lem's The Cyberiad and prepare to be enchanted.

When you discover it was written in Polish and translated into English, prepare to be utterly amazed.

They'll never make a movie of it.

--Boris

[cake_crumb]

Just a sudden thought about Turks and Cloony and the opinions of him expressed on FR (as well as elsewhere)...A_Turk, was that YOU who told Cloony his movie was boring?? (just kidding)

[Cvengr]

I watched the subtitled Russian version,...twice, several years apart,...I really wanted to follow the Sci-Fi plot,...I walked out on both because they were so incredibly boring. Maybe something in the translation. Of course I was also wildly entertained during that same period reading Emmanual Kant and Charles Sanders Peirce, but Solaris I must admit left me a bit bored. Maybe he actually performed his part well.