Giant Ginkgo

Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is being remade by James Cameron and Steven Soderbergh. The Soviet movie version is a very slow and ponderous work that is considered to the be Russian the answer to 2001. The original takes a while to really get roling (there are other Soviet films that are much slower BTW!); which loses a lot of Americans who can't handle the pacing. It is a shame, because it is a good film.

I've seen a number of people gasp and complain about the idea of remaking this movie... The only thing I really have to say is 'Have you read the book?' Stanislaw Lem was one of the best science fiction authors in the world. When I first read the novel, I was really enraptured by the descriptions of a world which transcends human understanding. Will the new movie come closer to capturing it?