Cry me a river!
Posted on 05/23/2008 3:04:48 AM PDT by shove_it
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Communist party members in St Petersburg on Friday condemned the new Indiana Jones' film as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archeologist in 1957 competing with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.
"What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, a communist party member in Russia's second city.
The comments were made at a meeting of the local Communist party and posted on its Internet site www.kplo.ru.
"Our women don't look like Nazis, but maybe Cate Blanchett was threatened by unemployment, so ... she made this film," Perov said.
The film, the fourth in the hugely successful Indiana Jones series, went on release in Russian cinemas on Thursday. Russian media said it was being shown on 808 screens, the widest ever release for a Hollywood movie.
"Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country," said another party member, Andrei Gindos.
"The film is low-quality and would raise a smile if there wasn't a danger of drawing into its orbit teenagers who know nothing about the 1950s," Vladimir Mukhin, another member, said in comments on the Internet site.
Mukhin said he would ask the Culture Ministry to ban the film for its "anti-Soviet propaganda."
"Indians and aliens unite with Jones and his untrustworthy buddies to save the world from a Russian threat - what rubbish, simply a paranoid Churchillian fantasy," Mukhin said.
wow.... methinks the Russians are feeling a bit sensitive.
Whatever happened to suspending disbelief?
Good grief! Everyone is so sensitive these days...Hey Russia, It’s Just a Movie! (and Commies are evil!)
Wow. Must’ve hurt.
Hollywood did an ANTI-Communist movie???
I’m surprised Obama, Pelosi and Biden haven’t denounced it as a personal attack yet...
Somebody didn’t get the memo.
“Indians and aliens unite with Jones and his untrustworthy buddies to save the world from a Russian threat - what rubbish, simply a paranoid Churchillian fantasy,” Mukhin said, (as he pounded his computer with his shoe while screaming something about burying Dr. Jones...)
Correct me if I am wrong but didn’t the Soviet Union break up and wasn’t communism supposedly replaced with another form of Government in Russia? Silly me I guess.
Me thinks they doth protest to much
Kudos to Spielberg for angering freaking Russian Commies. Although the Soviets are the bad guys, the Commies must have missed the fact that the film takes some jabs at McCarthyism as well.
Shouldn’t that be: “how we sympathized with Bin Laden with he hit them”?
You were never our friend, Russia.
SORT OF anti-communist. There’s a subplot that the FBI was suspecting Indy of spying, so there’s some ‘commentary’ on the anti-commie hysteria of the 50s. Weird thing is, the subplot didn’t go anywhere and was never resolved.
Not only that, the final scene was completely forced and frankly, stupid. I was wondering if Spielberg lost interest in his own movie at the end, or the screenwriters had amnesia, or they just had better things to do that day than shoot a quality movie scene.
It was fun I suppose, with the car chases, the stunts, the archaeological puzzles, but not a very good movie in terms of consistency. Prince Caspian and Iran Man are much better.
Oh, almost forget- I also had to endure some preachy enviro-nazi propaganda from Harrison Ford before the movie stated.
Cry me a river!
Much better than having your likeness shown as a house elf.
Remember Putin & ,was it, Doby.
:-)
Communism only killed 100,000,000 people and they get a bad rap.
Often the truth does hurt and it's easier to bury the true history of something by simply banning it. It's the Marxist way.....
can't wait to see it.......:>)
Make sure you watch ALL the credits. There’s a surprise at the end.
But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists
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Communism was scary and continues to be scary....and I am an adult. We have plenty of communists hard at work in the U.S. working diligently to destroy all freedom.
By the way, I wonder if Indiana Jones will be shown in North Korea? ( Just wondering.)
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