"We don't need other worlds, we need a mirror."

Sue me - I like Spielberg's better. I found that this did not reach the poignancy of the remake.

Slow paced to leave room for on-board dwelling from characters and audience members alike. This film touches on various philosophies and has some conclusions of its own about the human condition. The film features a deft twist at the crescendo for you to ponder in the slower moments of your post-Solaris life.

A bit of a slog, but Tarkovsky doesn't appear to be drawing out scenes just for the sake of it. There's a certain power in letting the horror of confronting distorted memory fester that might not have translated well with less time for contemplation. The leads certainly help by understanding the humbling immensity of their particular existential angst and reacting with appropriate amounts of clammy terror. Requires patience, but this will likely speak to hard sci-fi and philosophy fans alike.

A disturbing and confusing view on ... necrophilia in space, I guess. Like all of Tarkovsky's films, it's photographed to the best extent and is wonderfully directed. The intellectual baffle can be a bit much at times, but I suppose that's what happens when you're so distant from your home.

"The salvation of humanity is in its shame!" questioning without posing questions instead questioning through beautifully structured yet still so simple situations, a grounded skeptic approach to philosophy from sisyphus to platon, science versus humanity, critical thinking, structured problems versus open ended ones, basic human truths and mysteries..This is kind of a masterpiece makes you think in layers inside layers, I pay my respects to Stanislav Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky. Seeing it once is

Thought-provoking and incredibly moving. Tarkovsky moves slow, as usual, but the mystery and ethereal nature of the piece means it's very effective. So many scenes were just breathtaking.

I tried, believe me, I tried. Just couldn't bare with the incredibly slow pacing. The ideas, the shots, everything is perfect, its just so slow and long.

This was a slight let-down. I'm going to revisit it some day, because I think the movie's slightly too smart for me. Or, rather, I think Tarkovsky is slightly too smart for me, if I go by his other movies. I saw the remake first, which I loved, but I had a hard time getting into the original. It dragged on and on, and once we got some momentum going on the space station it didn't really seem to go anywhere. If this almost 3 hour movie was 2 hours, I think I might have loved it.

The pacing is so slow that at times there's no pace at all, but a stand-still. When the story did move it was quite interesting, and the visuals were good as well. Overall it was quite an ordeal to watch and not really worth it.

Interesting to see a consummate master fail so spectacularly. There is some gorgeous imagery here, and some striking moments, but as a cohesive whole, it's just not there. Stalker worked as a sci-fi because it didn't have to be. This has to be sci-fi, and Tarkovsky tries to abstract it unsuccessfully. To think this is put up there with 2001. No way.

Doesn't quite reach the heights of 'The Mirror' or 'Stalker' yet is still pretty great. The one real stand out flaw is the pacing. No matter how interesting that second half was, it is a undeniably slow movie.

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Tarkovsky's Solaris is at its best when it ventures away from the book and I say this as a fan of the book. It's not as visually impressive as some of his other work but still has some highlights.