Haha, interesting that you watched it and i didn't cause here it had not so good reviews. But i'm glad you liked it. 2 moments. 1) not Dimitry, Dmitry and 2) i wouldn't think you'd enjoy Volga (esp that old) all that much being inside :) It's rougher than US cars and if the road is bad you feel every pit in it.
I can see how it might not get good reviews. It's very formulaic and pretty predictable. But the characters were likable, and it was a very traditional good-vs.-evil storyline. It kept me interested, and it was fun.
Ah, thank you for the spelling. Will correct.
The car itself looks really cool, a similar body shape to some of our classic cars. (It looked kind of 1940s to me. I was a little surprised when Geo told me it was a '66.) He likes old cars a lot. Sounds like one would have to upgrade the suspension, if possible. But when Dima got it all painted and slicked up, it was pretty sharp. I rather liked the hood ornament.
Also, the movie had some pretty neat visuals. Unfortunately, I couldn't really appreciate them because my attention was split between watching the movie and reading subtitles.
The producer on the movie also produced an animated feature we really like, 9, and I think that's what caught Geo's attention when he picked up the movie at the thrift shop
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I think less good reviews were cause it was too *american* if you know what i mean. People here if they want to watch something loike that can always pick US movies, originals so to speak. But i can also see why for some people it can be interesting to watch. If you'll go rare movie hunting again (sort of) you can look for our movie Metro. It's (how do you call it?) a movie about water flooding Moscow underground. Too simple of course but i think it was well done FX-wise and a dog there is adorable ;)
It's not really the same, but kind of like what we do. The American movie industry so often takes foreign movies and Americanizes them, which sometimes drives me up a wall. We can be kind of ethnocentric anyway, but Americanizing (and sometimes "dumbing down") stuff that works so well in it's original format is part of the reason why we have that problem, I think.
For example, Let the Right One In is a really cool Swedish (?) vampire movie, and if you get the one with the right (more accurate?) subtitles, it's really awesome! And it was so well received that within a year or two, a studio had bought the rights to re-make it into an American version, Let Me In, which I haven't seen, partly on principle. Sometimes the transfer from one culture to another can be interesting, especially if it puts a different spin on things or brings a different facet to life. But if it's just done for the sake of making it more "palatable" to an American audience (and profitable to the company), that's when I
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Thanks so much for the rec!
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2 moments. 1) not Dimitry, Dmitry and 2) i wouldn't think you'd enjoy Volga (esp that old) all that much being inside :) It's rougher than US cars and if the road is bad you feel every pit in it.
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Ah, thank you for the spelling. Will correct.
The car itself looks really cool, a similar body shape to some of our classic cars. (It looked kind of 1940s to me. I was a little surprised when Geo told me it was a '66.) He likes old cars a lot. Sounds like one would have to upgrade the suspension, if possible. But when Dima got it all painted and slicked up, it was pretty sharp. I rather liked the hood ornament.
Also, the movie had some pretty neat visuals. Unfortunately, I couldn't really appreciate them because my attention was split between watching the movie and reading subtitles.
The producer on the movie also produced an animated feature we really like, 9, and I think that's what caught Geo's attention when he picked up the movie at the thrift shop ( ... )
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If you'll go rare movie hunting again (sort of) you can look for our movie Metro. It's (how do you call it?) a movie about water flooding Moscow underground. Too simple of course but i think it was well done FX-wise and a dog there is adorable ;)
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It's not really the same, but kind of like what we do. The American movie industry so often takes foreign movies and Americanizes them, which sometimes drives me up a wall. We can be kind of ethnocentric anyway, but Americanizing (and sometimes "dumbing down") stuff that works so well in it's original format is part of the reason why we have that problem, I think.
For example, Let the Right One In is a really cool Swedish (?) vampire movie, and if you get the one with the right (more accurate?) subtitles, it's really awesome! And it was so well received that within a year or two, a studio had bought the rights to re-make it into an American version, Let Me In, which I haven't seen, partly on principle. Sometimes the transfer from one culture to another can be interesting, especially if it puts a different spin on things or brings a different facet to life. But if it's just done for the sake of making it more "palatable" to an American audience (and profitable to the company), that's when I ( ... )
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