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.
Life is so unfair. You brutally murder 100,000,000 people and suddenly you're a bad guy...
Life is so unfair. You brutally murder 100,000,000 people and suddenly you're a bad guy...
Doby Gillis?
Or Dobby the house elf?
"The Soviet people have a grand and glorious history, he went on to note. "And we are deeply sorry about the various Purges. And killing millions of our own people, and other people, on the way to our economy falling apart, and the collapse of Communism. Oh, and the gruesome and cruel deaths of the Czars. We were really something before America outspent us, and we couldn't keep up, because of our pathetic, useless, unresponsive command economy. But we have a Five Year Plan that revolves around bitter, sneering remarks at successful Hollywood actors that we think will turn the whole thing around and make us a superpower again in a century or so."
"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.
"Because the first thing on any Hollywood actor's A-List is to visit the scraggly turnip fields of a failing former empire."
"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.
And exactly how far to you have to live in the past so that your cultural reference to appear "hip" to the outside world is Churchill? This guy's PC must operate on vacuum tubes.
“Iran Man”?
Talk about having your historical blinders on...no mention of being allied with Hitler, no mention of your wonderful leader who was the only man on Earth who can actually be termed as "worse than Hitler."
Good to see the Soviet propaganda machine is alive and well, if a little pathetic.
IT’s A HIT!!!
It pi$$ed off the “Soviets”!
You should pop some popcorn and enjoy it.
lol just noticed my own typo!
Yeah, it’s about Achmedinijad in underoos. Great flick!
Hey russia... YOU STILL SUCK!
LLS
the running dogs of the CIA.
Whoa, hadn’t heard that in a while.
The Comunist Russians were indeed the bad guys who got their comeuppance and students on Indy's campus (they used YALE) were holding a rally with anti communist RED signs reading "Better Dead than RED"!
A good time was had by all. Go see it, you won't be disappointed.
“”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.”
Their local Commie seems to have forgotten that period of time between 1945 and up into the late 1980’s.
Pol Pot's and Communism's legacy! If only OBama_Lama_Dingo_Dong had been available to negotiate!
SARC OFF (I thinkg that was flash gordon's Mentor)
Pol Pot's and Communism's legacy! If only OBama_Lama_Dingo_Dong had been available to negotiate!
SARC OFF (I thinkg that was Flash Gordon's Mentor)
If the commies don’t like it i’m willing to bet there is a good chance that the Democrats don’t like it either.
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