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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] I think IMBD has it right on the nose with this comment about Solaris (2002): [i]"But 2001 will always be the better picture [than Solaris] because that was a true meditation on space, and it wasn't an excuse to use a "second chance" romance formula on a space station."[/i] The first thing you figure out if you really know the film 2001 is that Arthur C. Clarke clearly didn't get what Kubrick was doing. 2010 only reinforces that. Yeah, Kubrick worked with him while the film was being made, but Clarke famously kept having to rewrite the novel to match the developing film. The inverse never happened. If you go into 2001 expecting a plot you miss the entire point. Kubrick himself said nothing import is conveyed in the dialogue. 2001 is like the most expensive art house film ever made. It's entirely an audio-visual experience, and seeing it on TV just isn't the same as seeing it on a big screen. This is a flaw to a lot of people, but I don't see it as such. I'm not trying to convert anyone. I think it's one of those either you like it or you don't things. As to Solaris...both versions are slow. Strangely enough, lbeit the recent Steven Soderbergh version is significantly shorter than the Tarkovsky version, it felt almost as long to me! Perhaps I have more patience than most with Tarkovsky's having seen enough other Russian cinema to be used to the sometimes glacial pacing. Plus I think the Russian version is more about its ideas and less about the love story, so probably less accessible than the American one. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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