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"Stalker": Need you be Russian to be entertained by this?

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mr grits

(spoiler? who cares?)

Okay, I got the premise. Something happened and "the Zone" became an area where strange things happened. One must get past security troops to enter and tread lightly to visit a "room" that can allow the visitors their most desired wish once you leave the Zone. So....

We spend over two hours watching them mince towards their objective exchanging intellectualisms and insults while creeping, crawling, and taking unexplained naps while surrounded by water. They finally reach the "room" which brings on more intellectualisms, scuffling, and an attempted bombing?

Suddenly, we end with a young child at a kitchen table doing a psycho-kinesis thing and FINI!

So, that's entertainment?

Who will champion this celluloid wreck and give it meaning?

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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII

Follow Ups:

RE: "Stalker": Need you be Russian to be entertained by this? - Rod H. 11:00:46 07/18/07 (5)
I've seen five of his films, and "Stalker" was the only one I didn't care for. My wife, however, liked it the most of all his films, with "The Sacrifice" being a not-so-close second. She fell asleep twice trying to watch "Solaris", yet was riveted to "Stalker".

She's not Russian, and I have no idea why she liked it so much. The only thing I can think of...she is a big fan of fantasy films.

Rod
- Just because Russian novels are a mile long doesn't mean their films should be, ugh. * - mr grits 13:28:04 07/18/07 (4)
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  - RE: Just because Russian novels are a mile long doesn't mean their films should be, ugh. * - Maril555 05:11:12 07/20/07 (3)
    The novel movie based on is not a mile-long. It's written by brothers Strugatsky, and is outstanding read.
    Movie has very little in common with the book, both in contents and spirit.
    Movie basically borrows a very general outlines of the the "Zone " idea,
    and some characters. Stalker, the main character in the movie, couldn't be more different from his literary protagonist "Red head".
    I could never understand the movie, and I'm a big fan of Strugatsky's.
    Tarkovsky himself is a different story, better saved for another occasion.
    I watched "Mirror" again recently- it is not bad, but IMHO is pretty far from being a staple of the cinematograhy. Same statement, multiplied by 10, applies to "Stalker" as well.
    - Which of his films should I try next? - mr grits 09:24:38 07/20/07 (2)
      I'll usually eat at a bad resturant two or three times just to make sure.
      
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      - "Mirrors" and "Solaris," not forgetting that "Andrei Rublev" is one of the - tinear 14:21:22 07/20/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Which of his films should I try next? posted by mr grits on July 20, 2007 at 09:24:38
        
        best films of the past fifty years.
      - RE: Which of his films should I try next? - Maril555 10:17:45 07/20/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Which of his films should I try next? posted by mr grits on July 20, 2007 at 09:24:38
        
        OK, OK, No more watching Tarkovsky's movies. I promise.
        I think VK made me do that (watching "Mirror")

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