Just wondering, but did anyone out there enjoy Solaris?

Hell, when I rented the dvd the girl working behind the counter pleaded with me to like the movie, as almost everyone she'd encountered had loathed it. Someone had even gone so far as to scrawl "This movie sucks!" in permanent marker across the front of the dvd case.

When I'd heard it was dull, I assumed that meant Soderbergh had used the same (at times painfully)plodding pacing that Tarkovsky used in the original movie. While I enjoyed Tarkovsky's version overall and appreciate the idea of slower pacing in order to increase the impact of dramatic moments, there are spans of time in that film that are just mind-numbingly dull. Chop an hour out of it and hell, it'd be a great film. Well, in addition to incorporating his own vision of the story, that's exactly what Soderbergh did.

I understand that this movie isn't for everyone, but the backlash still surprises me. Was it the way it was advertised? The lack of explanations throughout the film? Or was it the George Clooney audience, folks who might've felt themselves tricked into seeing an art film?

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Also, I'm fairly confident that the repeating up 'n down sound heard near the end of the movie is the hyperspace effect from Star Raiders.