Solaris: Women Are Easier To Love If They Aren't Real

[nostalgia_lj]

Finished watching Solaris. It is like if 2001 was twice as slow and had half as much excitement.

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[calapine]

I'm gonna watch some Qautermass.

Dillon, there's something on your face!

[nostalgia_lj]

I love me some Quatermass. My most favourite is Quatermass and the Pit, but all of it is generally win.

[dracothelizard]

"The main character falls in love with an idealised version of a dead woman who he sort of killed in some way"

Silent Hill 2 did that better! And creepier! Whilst being a video game.

[nostalgia_lj]

He's just creepy, is the thing.

[dracothelizard]

Well, yeah, but Silent Hill 2 had the protagonist angst about his dead wife while he had to fight monsters who were the manifestion of his deep inner manpain. That's way more awesome.

[dracothelizard]

Plus, weren't we supposed to notice that his whole deal was fucked up? Instead of whatever the hell we were supposed to conclude from Solaris? (I don't know; retreating from life into a fantasy world is a good thing? Imaginary people are better than real people? Embrace the alien mind control because it feels really good before you die?)

[aj]

Ooh! OOH!! Go rent the Russian one! Please rent the Russian one? I wanna hear you talk about that and the 15 minute drive through something that seems as Leningrad with no actual purpose!!!

[nostalgia_lj]

It in FOREIGN?

[aj]

YEP.

It in RUSSIAN. The book it's based on is by Stanislaw Lem and is all Russian and Emo and objectifying of women too. But. The Russian version of the movie is 1. An hour too long 2. In Russian 3. has mesh wifebeaters and tighty-whities on a LARGE HAIRY UKRANIAN MAN.

WAAAAAAAAAAAATCH IIIIIIIIIIIT!

[big_n_happy]

Agreed. Slower, more panning.

Best experienced with horrifically damaged film and inaccurate subtitles, but a DVD will suffice.

[ex_spockette108]

OMG. I have remembered a thing I meant to ask, and I ask here 'cause of you are never on AIM: do you want a playstation 2, plus a bunch of games? 'cause I have one that I don't want anymore, and I were going to take it to the charity shop, but I minded that I am coming to visit you in a month, and a PS2 is a better housewarming gift than a cactus, y/n?

[nostalgia_lj]

YES I WOULD. PLS?

[ex_spockette108]

HAI. I will put it inna backpack and take it to you when I come visit, yah. Also, the PS2 has a memory card and one controller, but extra controllers, should you need them, can be got for cheap off the internetz.

The games what I have left ('cause my sister's boyfriend took the best ones, so you do not get Wolfenstein & therefore cannot kill Nazis) are:

Silent Hill 2
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Final Fantasy X
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness

[nostalgia_lj]

YAY. Are they easy games?

[aryas_zehral]

Have you seen the orig Russian version? It's so much more tedious, less happens, there's lots of watching someone watch grass in water for long swathes of time and it's 3 hours long. I was actually mad at it for wasting my time (I watched it a couple of days ago) and mad at the people on my course who seem to love that sort of indulgent nonsense. The George Clooney one is waay better, but still crap.

Was there a reason you were watching it or just because you hadn't seen it before?

[nostalgia_lj]

It was cos I had not seen it before and it was in a box of three DVDs what were on sale. It was the least interestng of the three.

[aryas_zehral]

What were the other two just out if interest?

[nostalgia_lj]

Planet of the Apes (the remake) and Minority Report.