― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
it just seems like lots of things in this movie were absurdly stretched out for minimal payoffs. how many times do i have to watch stalker take a nap??
exceptions: the trolley ride into the zone was great, the part where they are taking a nap in the creek is great, too, where we see all the different bits of detritus in the stream.
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe I will go rent Rublev tonight!
― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
how about a 9-hour documentary on decaying abandoned chinese factories??
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked Andrei Rublev, though.
― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
(genuinely curious, not be snarky)
― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl
― ☪, Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
this movie is also at fantasia film fest... everyone seems to say it's worth checking so i may do so! i amde a thread for the fest, as well.
― Will M., Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
this is one of the best films ever!
and it's not boring!
― poortheatre, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I should've gone.
― RJG, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
it better be not boring! I am going to see it, and if I fall asleep like i did in solaris...
― Will M., Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably the most beautiful movie I've ever seen that looks like it was filmed in a vat of toxic sewage (in other words, this film has got to be the Russian equivalent of "The Conqueror", no?)
― Joe, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw this with a group of friends the other night and loved it. it's really beautiful, although it kind of killed everyone's desire to go out drinking afterward.
it brought to mind lots of things that were made later...cube, house of leaves, lots of video games (half-life 2, fallout 3, uh, super mario bros).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 14 September 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i don't get why people hate this one so much, i think it's great
― harbl, Monday, 14 September 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Actual Stalker videogame would be 1000x awes.
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 September 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
uh, see the previous revive!
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 14 September 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
!!!
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 September 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
this is like "mindwalk" with a pedigree.― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, May 29, 2006 7:42 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
i just watched this and i liked it a lot, but it did make me think of "mindwalk" once or twice. but even when the script droned on a little, there was still the gorgeous, ominous look and feel of the film. i think its ideas resonate much more in its non-verbal realms than in its dialogue.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
restraining orders were really hard to get in russia back then
― tectonic p (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 November 2009 07:32 (fourteen years ago) link
minor point of curiosity: why is it split into part 1 and part 2, with a separate credit and everything? was it originally made for tv or something?
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
it was something to do with soviet bureaucracy. Tarkovsky had already used his whole budget shooting the bulk of the film but the film stock was ruined and the footage was unusable. in order to get funding to reshoot it T had to imply to the authorities that the film was always conceived as two parts and he needed additional funding to shoot part two. i think he actually used the funding for part two to reshoot the whole thing.
― jed_, Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ah. i knew about the reshooting. i guess that makes a sort of bureaucratic sense.
man, it was really something to watch, it's still replaying in my head. i'll probably need to watch it again but i want to give it more time to unspool and settle in.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 November 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's really beautiful, although it kind of killed everyone's desire to go out drinking afterward.
new definition of "art film"?
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 28 November 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Tried for a second time tonight. I'll need to be 100% alert and working on a minimum of 10-hours sleep if I'm ever going to last the whole way--drifted through most of the middle hour tonight. I'll forgo the kind of jokes I used to make when I saw it 15 years ago. The stalker's strong resemblance to Woody Harrelson was distracting.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
If you can handle the candle scene from Ностальгия/Nostaghia you can handle Сталкер/Stalker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_li-WHcII
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
i'm kind of surprised the some people (vahid!) think the pre-zone section is good and then it goes downhill. i think the getting to the zone section is often messy and boring but once they get there and less starts to happen, plot-wise, the film is electrifying.
― jed_, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
Uncanny, I tell you.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_khYoWIBgmBI/S13LXPOfn5I/AAAAAAAABrI/ryGqrXSAiak/s320/13stalker.jpg
http://www.hggirlonfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/woody-harrelson.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
I ate a bunch of weed on a train and watched this on my laptop. It blew my goddamn mind. One of my favorite movies, and xp- the film really starts getting good once they reach the zone. Absolutely. Their every step becomes measured, they ruminate, they argue, crazy shit starts happening around them...
I'm gonna watch this tonight again.
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
One of my favorite movies, and xp- the film really starts getting good once they reach the zone.
first part of that sentence OTM, one of my very favorite movies. but it's brilliant from the beginning. hell, the first shot is one of the best in the film. and so's the second...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
thought thread might've been revived cos of this new book:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/05/zona-geoff-dyer-tarkovsky-stalker
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:42 (twelve years ago) link
amazing film.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 12 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Seven years after the making of the film, the Chernobyl accident led to the depopulation of an area rather like that in the film. Some of those employed to take care of the abandoned nuclear power plant refer to themselves as "stalkers" and to the area around the damaged reactor as "The Zone.
love this fact, through the whole film i kept thinking of chernobyl.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 12 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I love this movie so much I can't help feeling personally offended whenever anyone shits on it.
― tanuki, Sunday, 12 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
If someone doesn't like this movie, I automatically don't like them. I think there's something wrong with the way they open their senses.
― elan, Sunday, 12 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
And we were headed for such a beautiful friendship, elan.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
I know I should be beyond the point where I feel so personally about things outside of myself (I got shit for saying more or less the same thing about The Tree of Life on the sandbox movie thread) but I wonder if this movie doesn't work as a sort of litmus test about whether or not one feels sure they know what reality really is, or whether they (like I do) are in constant doubt as to what is real and what isn't. Mind, this is drawn from very little experience but I wonder if anyone else feels the same way.
― tanuki, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
also n.b. I don't think everyone who dislikes this movie is a terrible person, but maybe people who are sure of themselves also tend to dislike this movie.
― tanuki, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link