George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh 'Solaris'

[truckcompany]

"I get it, she doesn't exist, or she exists on a different plane. I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of reality for a while just to have a night with my wife"

This is what makes this movie my favorite movie. I'm torn between living in the unpleasantries of reality and this deep yearning to throw all that away just to experiences a deep connection of love with someone.

I do wish there was a God.

[shesarainbow2009]

I agree about missing the point. I can not bear to see this version. Solaris is my favorite film (the Tarkovsky version) George Clooney is my least favorite actor of all times. I wish this had never happened. But then, works of art are perceived on many levels or layers and the viewer is subjective, after all. If interested, "Sculpting in Time" is a good book which includes lovely poetry written by Tarkovsky's father. And of course Lem's novel as the basis.

[Lilifors]

missed the point entirely. Solaris is not about screwing your dead girlfriend in zero gravity. it is about human missinterpretation of life and the human disability to unterstand emotions other then humans.

this movie is not science fiction. it's, as they say,"a love story", which again proves how much they have missed the point. this is just another hollywood blockbuster.

[Schizm1]

Lem's book is muuuuuuch better than both movie versions

[lepricoun]

the original from 1972 is much better

[toborexperiment]

I hate remakes...

[toborexperiment]

Tarkovskij and only Tarkovskij

[wesruleswow]

after being totally engrossed in this score and movie, this trailer is so fucking misleading.....its not a chick flic

[tomoctavian]

Nobody respect the book, Solais

[energeez]

go suck tarkovsky's dick

[Cassavius]

It stinks!

Watch the original! 

[Hessimore]

I prefer the book. It's a lot better than the film, both films. Lem was a genius. His books are terrifying because fourty years ago he was writing about things which now are more real than he could imagine they'll be. I'm his huge fan and I think 'Solaris' is one of the best books I've ever read and... it's NOT a love story!

[Salimalisa]

I think also, that the version from Tarkowsky from 1972 is much better andit`s the original....sorry....

[apocryph5]

@Salimalisa orginal its a book Stanislaw Lem - Solaris. from 1961

[Salimalisa]

@apocryph5

Hi, I mean the original film! Or can You read the book here on Youtube?!

[Salimalisa]

@apocryph5

HI, I mean the original film from 1972, this was the first film on Lem`s book! Or can You read the book here on Youtube? I can`t believe....

[enerjon777]

I liked it, '72 is better though.

[kanudoss]

It's like drinking warm, stale piss, after you've tried Cristal Champagne

[hellraidzor]

this trailer is a disgrace

[paranapoleon]

Solaris 4 nubs

[lenesu86]

Having watched the original Tarkovski version, this one seems to be an abomination on his works. PLEASE WATCH THE ORIGINAL !!!

[hallowedbeeddie]

this is like if they tried to remake 2001

[futuristfood]

waxing. skin treatments. Clooney is looking good. he's no spring chicken.

[lakeb0dom]

They turned a perfect psychological drama into a love story. Nice job Hollywood !

[TheUmmwhatever]

@lakeb0dom Well actually they turned an amazing novel that deals with the explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations, and turned it into a psychological drama, and then into a love story. The Solaris novel will ALWAYS beat the shit out of all it's adaptations. Sorry.

[inachu]

She reminds me of my Korean GF. He cheek bones are just like hers.

[Tirius9393]

@inachu like really mang?

[JuglarEuskaldun]

George Clooney as Kelvin? No thanks...

I guess... I'll stay with the book, that i have already in my hands.

[elerond]

I haven't seen any of the movies, though I'd like to. But please, don't forget whose Solaris from: Stanislaw Lem. That's really a psycological masteripiece. As I hear from everybody, Tarkovsky really catch it's essence, and makes it big, while Soderberg just don't fit quite well. But please, remember it was Lem the creator of this whole wonder.

When I said I read 2001: Space Odyssey, There was a person who said to me "So you read Kubrick"...

Lem really made me shake reading Solaris. Masterpiece

[JuglarEuskaldun]

@elerond Of course, the book is a holy masterpiece. This movie is not about the book... This movie's about the romance of Clooney with his dead wife... wtf? bullshit.

[TheReverb1]

CAUTION: this movie has only took couple of things of the original and mislead many ways to see the real film. This one lack of the depth in the A. T. film. Seems that they only wanted to show a Hollywood s love story. After watch you dont realize that is possible an invent of the father of the guy, etc. Nuthin of the real thing in this movie

[Max0Inq]

I don't want to watch the movie after watching this trailer.

Harey (or Rheya) looks nothing like she should. She was 19 (or 20, both are mentioned) in the book so she should look innocent, almost girlish. The feeling this trailer leaves is something like "I'm back, let's fuck". The way the relationships between protagonists are shown in the book is very intimate, personal. There's no place for sex in the original story, the love is expressed in unspoken words, not images...

Read the book!

[Fapsamup]

Forget about this Cloone(y) version and watch the real one. What's next? A remake of 2001: A Space Odyssey? As a matter of fact they did a sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact... It is the year they didn't realized that film is an art form that stands alone.

[Dutchvine]

Excellent story line, enjoyed the movie very much. I would like to see the original as well. To have an terrestrial intelligence that has the ability to create and gather information that will not be wasted or destroyed is profound. (Theology anyone?) Its no wonder they (Hollywood) decided to recreate an original. Thanks for the upload!

[rosebudgarden]

Natasha McElhone is absolutely useless in this role. Compared to Natalya Bondarchuk in the original (and vastly superior) film, she's a novice... no depth whatsoever. Her reaction upon realising that she's not human is like "Oh my god", as if she has a run in her nylons.

This is a movie you watch while eating popcorn. If you want your cinematic life to change forever, see the original.

[Xetrev13]

@rosebudgarden

agreed %100 Tarkovsky's work canNOT be recreated..

[interconnectedone]

the original solaris is so much better.

[truckcompany]

Solaris is my favorite movie of all time so far. It makes the core of my being react in such an amazing way

[Vittoriocacciatore]

shit shit shit shit hollywood shit shit shit shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! andrei tarkovsksy laughs...

[newpote5]

no coments888888

[kimmortennissen]

true, but it aint the same her, that comes back it´s a new her. the other one the planet created is still floating out there!

[TheStepanov]

This is fake! Not true Solaris. Clooney can't be compaired with great Banionis... Very sad...

[JonasE1969]

@TheStepanov at least they look the same, I bet Clooney has a slavic heritage.

[sesherbes]

For me it is a very bad film! The Tarkovsky's film Was a masterpiece. You can not compare, but one thing is art and the other is just a movie. It's like trying to overcome the Dante´s Divine Comedy, it is impossible. Soderbergh has been set only in aesthetics.

[kimmortennissen]

The most mind blowing part of this film, is when he sends her out in space:(

Think about it, "ok it is not real" she is going to sit there and think "how could he do that", and she is going to die alone, killed by the man she loved:/ That must be awful!

[JolSummerville]

@kimmortennissen But she doesn't remember any of it when she comes back for the 2nd time. Once she realizes she is a just a figment of his imagination she wants to be set free for good.

[TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

i love this movie, its mood and its music, very surreal. Awesome.

[A11ex]

"Solaris" a love story? Pfffff As much as "Event Horizon" was a love story.

[dcddjc]

@A11ex ha ha ha great I love your comment!

[Uselink]

Not a love story at it's core. It's the relationship between the human and the..divine i think.

[cougar776]

Soderbergh is an OK director but here he falls sooooooooooooo fucking short when compared to Tarkovsky that is almost pathetic....

[rochebalia]

LOVEmeUNCONDITIONALY have the reason tarkovski version its much better.

[ivangrebe]

in a scene you can see the booty of george: this is the sense of all this operation with remake LOLO

[ivangrebe]

already the first two seconds of the trailer are so sad uahahahaha my god

[ivangrebe]

poor poor soderbergh ahaha

[RonAlmeida]

@ivangrebe I would say so too, he should have known better than to even try to Hollywoodise a masterpiece.

[ivangrebe]

@RonAlmeida yes mate, that's the sense of what i'm saying: a case of "cultural arrogance" and overevaluation of own personal capacities, a mistake with considering the emotional counterpart in perception of a modern man, the idea that we all are robots servants of the illusion of the "american dream" and cannot to see the pain of the fusion between the present and the future tarkovskij was represented so perfectly!

[Jeroennn198]

voiceover FAIL

[ripley969]

Moi je l'ai lu et vu les 2 versions les 2 me plaisent !

[peacefulnature10]

Tarkovsky wins.

[RonAlmeida]

@peacefulnature10 Hands Down!

[AntiProUltra]

"it's essentially a love story" lol, has this guy even read the book? it's nothing of the sort

[spacecowboy5000]

I saw Tarkovsky's 1972 version of Solaris and left feeling confused and disappointed. It was NOTHING like Lem's novel which I've enjoyed reading some 20 or so times. This film also has little connection with the book but at least I can relate to it. Lem was one of the 20th century's best writers but his characters were rarely "emotionally developed". If the events of Solaris happened to one of us this version depicts how a human would react. Philosophy is cool but I prefer it in books.

[Cupit29]

Personally, I found this to be one of the most boring and confusing films I've ever seen.

If ever I have trouble sleeping, I put Solaris on.

[clairekerrypike]

@Cupit29 hahhahahahha

[Pacisdiligo]

A hauntingly beautiful film. One of my all time favorites. Not a film for the impatient however. A deeply thoughtful and profound treatment of life, death and longing. One of Clooney's best. Two thumbs up!

[movielover1332233]

i hate Geico now

[ripley969]

I like !

[Avokado77]

говна кусок по сравнению с Tarkovsky!!!!  its bull shit !!!!

[Alex787]

What annoyed me was how the film was promoted as if it was some sort of amazing love story in space. which im guessing was the idea from the film company get women in to watch clooney. I thought that it was very good but i didnt think it was a love story

[JillAngie2]

I LOVE George in this film....his acting is just TOP and he totally captures the screen. MAGNIFICENT film and I give it 10/10

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

this film was awful

[albedoshader]

Solaris - the book - is not a love story. It's about the limits of human understanding and the very likely impossible communication with non-human intelligence - a common theme in Lem's books. Remember the book "His master's voice" where scientists try to decypher an alien message, find parts of it seemingly making sense but never find out what the message is about or if it is a message at all - or if all they "decyphered" is only a product of their own human limits of understanding.

[EliasRafael]

I love both movies. Both working on different aspects of the same philosophical idea.

[1aDemokrat]

wesentlich besser., leider.

[RonAlmeida]

@1aDemokrat Wesentlich besser als dem von Tarkowski, Meinst du? Ich gaube nicht. Es is viel zu dum Hollywoodish fur mich, entschuldigung. Tut mir leid, meine Deutch ist nicht so gut.

[1488bill]

Does anyone know when the original was made and if this one follows the same premise? I thought I saw it without subtitles and dubbed English. It seemed different...with lush vegetation and pods. I may be thinking of another film. It was like Invasion of the body snatchers but much scarier.

[albedoshader]

The original is from 1978.

[m00rad]

the original one by Tarkovsky is waaaaaaaaaaay better so I recommend everybody to watch that one

[SoapSudz101]

original was way better :(

[damienAlmann]

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[pinkeyegasms]

the original movie lets u figure it out ... well it was in russian and the subtitles were translated strangely so a lot of the meaning was lost ... i tripped out on how long the car ride was but it let u see the city which was cool cuz ive never been to russia

[Pacisdiligo]

A thinking persons sci-fi film. Very beautifully and hauntingly done. One of my favorites. The ending was superb. Five stars for this one. Clooney at his best.

[LOVEmeUNCONDITIONALY]

pssh... in my opinion the Tarkovsky version was so much more better than the new version. As already said, no one can match the genius that was Tarkovsky :D

[francorussie2]

@LOVEmeUNCONDITIONALY True! Philosophical and moral, deeper human values appreciated by Tarkovsky are replaced with "romantic" relationship, which is by the way, not that romantic in the modern world. I suppose this is no poetry, just a private, personal affair. Tarkovsky's film is poetic and abundant in beautiful images. Even the girl is SO poetic in T's movie ((( I do not see anything of that kind here...

[leisurelydinner]

@LOVEmeUNCONDITIONALY new version's better imo

[ZeeN4v0]

@LOVEmeUNCONDITIONALY don't forget the time. time goes by, generations change, new perspectives are needed. i don't think that anybody tried to match Tarkovsky.

[kasztanka28]

@LOVEmeUNCONDITIONALY

there is one person - stanislaw lem, the original writer of the story ;p

[nachtrauch]

I liked it a lot. Not so much as the version of 1972 though.

I thought about it...maybe it is, because Hollywood filmmakers tend to turn good movies with a message into tearjerkers and sobstuff. It also happened to Wim Wender's "Der Himmel ueber Berlin" (Wings of desire) which was raped into "City of Angels", a lachrymose love story with the intellectual depth of a 50 Cent stamp...

[IrishClaudius]

@nachtrauch I'm writing a new film about why American's see intellectuals as threatening aliens: It's called:

The Search For Einstein

It stars Tina Fey as Sarah Palin The Exterminator who travels back in time to stop

Einstein from being born and decides after killing his parents that it would be good to kill Issac Newton's parents as well. On she goes back to the stone age to try and find the ape who used a bone as a tool.

[ForViewingOnly]

The trailer for the film is rubbish... the run-of-the-mill deep voice trying to sum up the movie in a few slowly spoken sentences. However, I think the movie is superb! The music, the mesmerising CGI used for the surface of the planet... What an incredible story too - painful for anyone who has lost a loved one and yet still kinda uplifting. Regardless of how great Tarkovsky's film was, this film is still way way ahead of most sci-fi films in my humble opinion.

[shiz777]

AGREED. I love sci fi and although I do enjoy the blockbuster summer star trek, deeper philosophical movies (which is what science fiction actually is) are seriously lacking. Solaris is a fantastic film from a sci fi perspective, the book is 10X better.

The last film that tried foray into thought provoking sci fi was AI and that movie was a flop, (save Ben Kingsleys futuristic performance at the end).

[MassimoDiFelice]

agreed

[NoOne3234]

It's really difficult to outdo Tarkovsky.

: )

[NoOne3234]

and if you can't outdo Tarkovsky, you shouldn't try a movie version of Solaris.

[aserta]

or even lem. ppl forget the book. if u take the movies from the books perspective they both fail. if u take the movies as separate items and as singular items they are both good. if you take the movies in comparison to each other then tarkovsky wins in depth but looses to the powerfull love story in this version helped by the two actors their expresions and even themselves as humans fit lem's amazing work. it's all about perspective

[Nekronn]

Tarkovsky's Solaris is the only one,and that's all.The love story in this movie is haunting and deadly romantic;also very deep.I will not discus this new Solaris because,for me,it doesn't even exist.

[LTstudios]

Thats ridiculous to compare a book to a film, they are two different mediums. Tarkovsky's film is a love story in the sense it deals with love on a larger plain, among many things, it's just not a sappy hollywood boo-hoo love story.