| Posted by: Jax at May 26, 2008, 7:22 pm | | Topic: Communists demand that Indy 4 be banned in Russia Forum: Movie List | | Who cares what the russian communist party have to say, they only represent a small portion of the russian duma (about 11%) and thus realy don't have anything to say. This article blows it a bit out of proportion, it's just a few politicians from a small party yapping a bit, not realy something to take notice of. About the Armageddon stuff, that russian official however was correct, russia had a permanent presence in space in the form of mir station long before space station alpha, their achievement was indeed mocked in that movie. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Jake at May 25, 2008, 11:29 pm | | Topic: Communists demand that Indy 4 be banned in Russia Forum: Movie List | | Quote: "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. Haha, riiiiiiight. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: j7wild at May 25, 2008, 10:26 pm | | Topic: Communists demand that Indy 4 be banned in Russia Forum: Movie List | | so what they are saying is they don't want their movie going teenagers to find out that Russia used to be Communist just like Japan still distort their country's history that they teach in their schools. so movie fantasy from the West NOT OK but SANITIZING your history by omitting the truth is OK (like Japan still won't admit to the Nanking Massacre and they have written their history textbook to make it sound like it never happened). | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Granite at May 25, 2008, 9:17 pm | | Topic: Communists demand that Indy 4 be banned in Russia Forum: Movie List | | From Yahoo! Quote: Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film on Friday 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 of St Petersburg. The comments were made at a local Communist party meeting and posted on its Internet site www.kplo.ru. 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 movi... | | Read Entire Entry |
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