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Film Number 18 on PinHeadLarry145's 30 Days 30 Countries Film Challenge!
Russia/Soviet Union, 1979.
Well.... There is was. My first Tarkovsky film. Many things may be rushing through your head...
"Why the hell haven't you seen a Tarkovsky film yet?"
"What did you think of it?"
"Did you like it? Did you hate it?"
"Why the hell did you choose Stalker as your first Tarkovsky film?"
I really only have a legitimate answer to one of those questions: did I…
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One of the best SFF films I have ever seen since 2001 ASO, masterful direction and cinematography from Tarkovsky with a fine storyline and great use of visual imagery
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I loved it until the end.
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Una maravilla quizás algo difícil de ver pero que a mí a una tierna edad me mantuvo hipnotizado. Contiene alguna de las escenas más bellas jamás rodadas. (Y no se pierdan la novela en la que está basada "Un picnic al borde del camino"... )
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30 Countries Challenge // #12 - Soviet Union
I could probably cut and paste a lot of my opinions from my review of Werckmeister Harmonies and apply them to Stalker. I found them quite similar in the way I could appreciate their technical achievements but just couldn't connect with the narrative. I found Stalker about 50 times more watchable but it still didn't amaze me in the way I was hoping it would.
If you were to simply give me…
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Tarkovsky and like half the cast/crew died from cancer that was caused from making this movie. It's a very slow, quiet sci-fi film that does an excellent job examining humanity.
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Weird but nice
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Magistral fotografía una vez más de Andrei, con un trasfondo filo-social para verla un puñaico de veces, un pepinazo de dialogos.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Well, this was... something.
You know what movie made me feel like this? The Tree of Life. I consistently felt like there was *something* really beautiful and really interesting about that movie beyond my reach, but, like with Tree of Life, I couldn't quite break through the wall of OH MY GOSH NOTHING IS HAPPENING. I'm pretty sure there was a four-minute shot of these men just staring into a tunnel. That's it. No dialogue, no sound, not really any…
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My experience in viewing Stalker bordered on science-fiction, perhaps even more so than the movie itself. First off, almost like a magic pill, every time I put the movie on (for I watched it in a few installments), I fell asleep. Ping! And it wasn't even that I was tired every time I started watching. It's just such an incredibly long, slow haul. Seemingly endless scenes of decrepit men milling about nattering about the meaning of life - and not…