Russian Communists outraged at new 'Indy'

[NJNetz]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Communist Party members condemned the new "Indiana Jones" film on Friday as crude, anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens.
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"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 movie.

In past episodes Indiana Jones has escaped from Nazi soldiers, an Egyptian snake pit, a Bedouin swordsman and a child-enslaving Indian demigod.</div>
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Silly communists.

 

[Mamba]

LOL silly Soviet Communists...don't they know we beat them in the Cold War? We can do what we want, we're America.

 

[NJNetz]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>don't they know we beat them in the Cold War?</div>

You beat nothing!

 

[Mamba]

Shut up, Commi.

 

[Chutney]

They can take consolation in the fact that the movie sucks.

 

[Master Shake]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ May 24 2008, 08:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>They can take consolation in the fact that the movie sucks.</div>


The ending was horrible.

 

[NattaNerNuttaMan]

Damn, does it really? I was looking forward to it....damn, damn, damn.

 

[Master Shake]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NattaNerNuttaMan @ May 24 2008, 08:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Damn, does it really? I was looking forward to it....damn, damn, damn.</div>

Well, it was really funny (I thought anyway), but it lacked a good script. You can still go see it and get a good laugh and just enjoy Indy for one last time.

 

[Denny Crane]

They're just not used to Hollywood making films that don't show the communists in a good light.