Gullevek

I was extremely surprised about this movie. My girlfriend rented it with a bunch of other movies and I thought this is a bit trashy B-style. But no, this was an amazing intense movie. You could really live with all the characters, you could feel the heat there, how helpless some of those characters are.

The movie starts a bit strange, you are not sure what it is actually about, but this gives this sort of "stick to it" feeling. You have to watch it. From that point on, you start to go with it. The struggle, the wandering, the great feeling of the shots. It makes this movie just amazing. You can really FEEL with it. It's very rare that a movie impresses me that much, but this one did it. This is a rare movie definitely worth to be watched.

If you are into these kind of darams, that are kind of sad, and do not end with the super happy Hollywood typical hero ending, then you have to check this movie out. I really highly recommend it.

Those who know Stanislaw Lem's Book Solaris will know how horrible difficult it is to create a movie based on it. As I know this book quite well, and I am a huge Lem Fan, I was especially interested in this movie.

So I waited ... and watched it ... and I have mixed feelings.

On the good side it is slow, very nice music, Cloney is well ... acceptable, the station is nice made, the Planet itself too ... but ... its too short.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOILER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just give on example. In the book he has quite a lot meetings with his dead wife, a lot of time passes by before he puts her into the rocket and gets rid of her. In the movie it is like "Scene A: meet girl", "Scene B: get rid of girl". That hurts, hurts very much if you know the book.

Another aspect is the change of the characters. Some who are old get very young. Male change into female, etc. It all puzzled me too much.

Furthermore I missed the lack of the planet expeditions. I really wanted to know how Soderburg though of them and with the today technical abilities it could have been very spectacular.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOILER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, sadly I never had the possibility to watch the old Russian version. Thought I really have to do it.

At the bottom line I ask myself who the target audience for this movie is. SF Geeks ? naw ... to mushy. Artist guys ? naw, too commercial, to Clony. Woman ? Naw, one time Clony ass, there are better ones...

So I really don't know ...

lg, cs

Yeah well, another masterpiece from America. Yohoo ... Okay, enough sarcasm today. This is really a horrible bad movie. Not only that it is so predictable from the first minute one, but it also has a stupid topic and a more stupid message, that goes like "if u don't have sex with every woman you see, you are a dork". Very smart ... wohoo!

Anyway, it's not a comedy (I only laugthed three times), it's nothing romantic (I wouldn't go into this movie with ANY woman on this whole planet), nor it is anything else.

1 from 10 and I wished I could vote negative ...