Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

"Oblomov:" a very different hero is he, a lazy, non-motivated,

Posted by tinear on February 11, 2010 at 21:34:11:
anti-competitive, and almost completely reclusive 19th century Russian man, content to loll away his days in Leningrad sleeping and stuffing himself with only his long-suffering major domo to keep him company.
Until, that is, his boyhood friend, Stoltz, appears. His type-A personality, coupled with his Alpha male good looks and aggressive business smarts eventually overwhelm Oblomov's passivity. With his new found outlook, our hero soon finds a love interest and he embarks on what must rank as the most naive approach to courtship ever filmed.
The film shows the glories of "old" Russia not unlike how Barry Lyndon did those of England. The cinematography is beautiful, the love interest is charming, and those that wish to mull over the philosophical will find no shortage of interesting points to consider. What a pleasure to see the two principal males portrayed by intelligent actors, too!
(I swear Vic I didn't know before I saw it that it was directed by Nikita Mikhalkov; in spite of that, I tremendously enjoyed it; it may be too early to so dub it but I'd say it's a classic film).