[OT] Dark Star (1974) - the platinum age of movies

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/2/10 14:01 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 09/02/2010 04:47 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> What do you think about Solaris? I've heard reviewers praising it for
>>>> being "real" science fiction, so I've been tempted to try it out of
>>>> sheer curiosity, but I've never felt confident enough about it to
>>>> actually give it a try.
>>>
>>> I watched the original russian one. It's sci-fi, but it's rather long
>>> and boring. Like there's a long sequence of just the character driving
>>> on the freeway. Driving, driving, driving, ...
>>
>> That was a key scene.
>
> Whoosh. That's either your joke going way over my head, or the scene!

The scene was of the main character driving on a busy highway into a 
crowded metropolis. The meaning was to question the veracity and meaning 
of perception, existence, and human interaction - all of which are 
central themes in the movie.

Andrei