Indiana Jones

[Botnst]

Indiana Jones makes Russian communists see red
Fri May 23, 2008 9:40am BST

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 archaeologist 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 sympathised 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.

(Reporting by Chris Baldwin, editing by Richard Balmforth)

[LUVMBDiesels]

It's OK... Putin is letting it be seen. Let the old style commies rant & rave... If they get too loud, Putin will stick them in a "New Vista Settlement"

[Dee8go]

Free speech is still a tough concept for some of them. Self-deprecation is completely off the charts.

[Mistress]

I find it hard to believe that a Parliment who would let men die in a metal tube at the bottom of the Baring Sea would get offended at an American move....

[Dee8go]

Damned booshzey American!

[dynalow]

Coincidentially, my g/f just returned yesterday from St. Pete., her place of birth. It was her first trip back to visit her family in five years. She said St. Petersburg is much nicer today, cleaner fresher, etc than her last visit.
I asked her if they're happy and smiling. She said, no, Russian's never smile! (Especially the old guard Commies, who were losers when Gorby gave up the ghost.
)
FWIW, gas, food, clothing are all as or more expensive than current prices here. She was *****in about the price of shoes.

[BamaMB]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Indiana Jones makes Russian communists see red
Fri May 23, 2008 9:40am BST

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 archaeologist 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 sympathised 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.

(Reporting by Chris Baldwin, editing by Richard Balmforth)

They can always make their own movie. Call it Ukraine Uri. The communist archaeologist who fights to save artifacts from the capitalist who only want to hoard the relics for their own private collection.
Uri's only reward is the knowledge that he is serving his fellow man by obtaining these precious objects for the peoples museum.

[MTI]

I heard that they loved "Borat"

[jlomon]

Originally Posted by BamaMB

They can always make their own movie. Call it Ukraine Uri. The communist archaeologist who fights to save artifacts from the capitalist who only want to hoard the relics for their own private collection.
Uri's only reward is the knowledge that he is serving his fellow man by obtaining these precious objects for the peoples museum.

I think you've got something here...maybe he can go on a quest to find the amber that was stolen from the famous Amber Room of the Hermitage in St. Pete's. Maybe with an Uzbek sidekick.

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by MTI

I heard that they loved "Borat"

I can understand that.

Too bad other folks have such difficulty laughing at themselves.

---chris