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What is your definition of boring? The concepts explored, for example, in Solaris and Stalker are far from boring. If you rely on a cliffhanger every 15 minutes
by spookybones 6y ago
What is your definition of boring? The concepts explored, for example, in Solaris and Stalker are far from boring. If you rely on a cliffhanger every 15 minutes, your taste might be boring to many cinephiles.
- billfruit 6y agoYes, but there are many great film makers, whose work isn't generally considered 'boring', like much of David Lean, or Milos Forman's Amadeus.
- QuesnayJr 6y agoI don't understand how you can read my comment as anything other than pro-Tarkovsky. I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek by calling them "boring". I hope the cinephiles of the world can someday forgive me. The real tragedy is that in our hyper-attention-seeking society that calling a movie "boring" is such a terrible insult. A movie that is strategically boring defeats our expectations. Movie makers know what we're expecting, and when we're expecting it, and delaying or flouting the fulfillment of those expectations can be part of the movie-making art. It's been a long time since I've seen Solaris, but I just recently rewatched 2001, and that's a movie that definitely uses boringness strategically. It has long sequences that communicate how long it takes to get around space, so that when you finally get to the Discovery One you can feel how far away and isolated Bowman and Poole are.
- 8bitsrule 6y agoI appreciated the idea of an intelligent planet. (But yeah, 2:47, mostly dialog? NOt so much.) The soundtrack was in part created on a synthesizer (the ANS) heard in several AT films. Its tones are based on patterns drawn on glass. That part of the film survives (at 38m) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrF1PSoTN3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrF1PSoTN3A How it worked: http://www.theremin.ru/archive/ans.htm http://www.theremin.ru/archive/ans.htm