Is Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) the greatest sci-fi film ever made… or is it a 3-hour endurance test that only film school professors pretend to enjoy?

🎬 Welcome to Season 2 of the Cool or Nostalgia Podcast, where we're going deep into the world of Sci-Fi movies! This time, we take on one of the most debated and revered films in cinema history: Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet masterpiece, Stalker. With a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, a spot on the British Film Institute's greatest films of all time list, and an 8.0 on IMDb — this movie has the credentials. But does it hold up for regular audiences, or is it strictly for the art house crowd?

🚀 Stalker follows three men — a guide known as the Stalker, a disillusioned Writer, and a secretive Professor — as they journey into a mysterious restricted wasteland called the Zone, where a h ...