Saw both these movies last week. I am not a big fan of sci-fi movies (hmm... I enjoy Matrix, Star Trek a lot - but I am sure that does not make me a sci-fi fan). But I liked both.
Pitch Black is like many of the space travel/sci-fi movies where a spaceship crashes or gets lost and then the crew/passenger tries to fight aliens. A few of them indeed deserve to die and some do not deserve, but still die and some who are supposed to save the remaining and do that eventually. Pitch Black has similar bits but it is different on many points, too. There is an alien here, but the powers have been balanced in an interesting manner. Without Pitch Black, the aliens are powerless, rather highly vulnerable. Watch it if you get a chance.
Solaris is based on a Russian story and you can make it out by the pace of the movie. No that is not a negative comment - the movie moves very slowly but that gives the viewer a lot to think about what's happening and believe me I cannot write a lot about it. The whole story is based on an almost abandoned spaceship where a doctor (George Clooney) goes to find out what's happening and, of course, gets involved in the happenings. This one is unmissable.
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Solaris is actually based on a book by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. It was first made into a film in 1972 by the geat Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, who is to Russian cinema what Ray is to Indian cinema, Kurosawa to Japanese cinema and Fellini to Italian cinema.
Apparently Lem didn't like Tarkovsky's version. Don't know what he thought of this one.
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