man, Nightwatch was one of the good ones.
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they will be cardboard. they cannot make them any other way.
cannot agree more.
well, my drivel is evidence-based.
I can tell you what to expect — based on all previous forays into the genre by Russian movie-makers. Poor script, cardboard key characters with actors with acting chops of burned semolina, abhorrent dialogues, great scenery, impressive stunts and camera work and lovely secondary characters that will be wasted on the…
they are Russia-trained fighters?
this is Russia heating up the continent so that the West relieves the sanctions. Russian paid political commentators are already speaking about the West’s need to abandon Ukraine so that Russia can help them fight ISIS.
Me, too :)
these stories — and these writers - were among my favorite reading, when I was a teenager and in my twenties. what is peculiar, though, is how misogynistic all of them were — Strugatski included. I wanted to write a paper on this — but then realized that for this I had to re-read all them, and felt I did not have the…
it was not based on any story.
it is that difficult just to copypaste Olga’s surname, Kurylenko, if you don’t care to spell it correctly?
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this sounds good but nothing beats Smoke on Pearl Harbor:
I watched them both and found them acceptably entertaining — as the actors involved on the second-tier roles were impressive and Maxim was extremely sexually attractive. it was far from doing justice to the book but as far as Russian movies go this was close to a masterpiece. but Hard to be a God — that was a drag.…
I love Strugatsky dearly ever since I first picked up their novel about Malysh in a local children’s library (in the late 1980-ties) but I failed miserably to watch this black-and-white jaggernaut of a movie — plus I can see much of it in the current situation in Russia.
that, too.
but just imagine how hilarious would locals sound speaking English!
nah. hate the movie, anyways — but for the actor who played the stalker. that one is a keeper. well, was.
Maybe this series will make Strugatsky more popular with the Western audiences to the point of considering other works of theirs for adapting for the big / small screen, like, It is hard to be a god, or Monday starts on Saturday, or the series on Ludens and deep space.
I wonder if they consider filming it in Ukraine, say, in Chornobyl or in Prypiat.