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"The Island?" Yes, I saw it.

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tinear

In Reply to: RE: Don't get your hopes too high, his previous work was crap. posted by Victor Khomenko on January 14, 2015 at 08:11:12

I liked it, very much, the first time.
Liked it more the second time.
I thought, btw, that "Elena" was a good film, an interesting if weaker effort.

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I thought Elena was horrible. - Victor Khomenko 06:14:10 01/16/15 (2)
I think your love for the "darker than dark" Russian films belongs in the same category as "It is very cold in Russia" and "All Russians have beards and drink vodka" stereotypes.

BTW - these very dark stories are generally not well received in Russia, it is mostly the Western pseudo-intellectuals who fall for them. :) Don't mean you personally, of course. :)
- Actually, I have been many times in Russia, if you - tinear 08:25:17 01/19/15 (1)
  count Russian vessels as "land." For five years, I worked with many of your fellow countrymen, supplying their ships (as a ship chandler).
  The only stereotypes I could pronounce upon, and wouldn't enlarge to population at large because of selectivity of crew and officers, is that invariably they were well-mannered, honest, and desperate (this was the mid-80s) for American jeans and other goods. In one respect, however, I must make an exception: drinking. The captains and officers drank a LOT of vodka when off duty; two kinds, one that was what we generally think of, the other was more like pure grain alcohol. They poured it like water into large glasses and drank it off.
  Anyhow, I wouldn't characterize Eisenstein and Tarkovsky as comic...
  - Did they have beards? - Victor Khomenko 10:19:50 01/19/15 (0)
    You would not believe the fights I have gotten into with some of the Russians on a guns forum. Many are chocking on anger, over how their "great country" is portrayed in that film.
    
    Their most pathetic comeback was along the lines: "What if someone made a movie showing an American ghetto?". What can I tell people like that? Many still live as if it is the seventies out there.

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