"US - Movie Trailer" Topic

"While Hollywood is mostly sleeping, Russia keeps on producing movies which are almost always above the quality of American productions and here's another example of that: first trailer for US (Мы) a sf movie scheduled for next year. 200 years have passed since the Great War, which led to the disappearance of almost the entire population of the planet. The remnants of humanity live in a perfect One State. Despite the authoritarian system, where each resident has his own serial number, uniform, glass houses and scheduled sex, happiness and harmony reign in society. The D-503 engineer considers such a life ideal and glorifies it, investing all his knowledge and talent in the construction of a super-powerful spacecraft. A chance meeting with an I-330 woman completely reverses D-503's self-image. With genuine horror, he discovers within himself the uncontrolled "ancient" impulses, feelings and passions. And he will have to find out that there are those who do not like the existing world order and who seek to destroy the last bastion of humanity on Earth – the One State …"

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Armand

"Russia keeps on producing movies which are almost always above the quality of American productions"

I'm sorry, does Russia make movies other than government propaganda? I have Netflix, Prime, Hulu, Disney, and HBO.
But I have never watched a Russian movie. French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, and South American I have.

Can you name a great Russian movie for me to watch?

I've seen a few Russian movies. I did like Daywatch and Nightwatch, but other than that, everything I've found was slick but shallow derivative Sci-Fi or laughably obvious Russian WW2 propaganda.

J McCarroll, I can reccomend "Hard To Be A God" A group of Human researchers are icognito on a planet stuck in a medieval period and while holding a strict non-interference policy one of the reaeasrchers begins to wonder if he hasn't an obligation to at least guide these people out of the literal mire they are in. It's pretty neutral, though it challenges all that utopian Prime Directive stuff in "Star Trek"

Returning to the original post, this sounds like a less critical of Soviet Collectivism version of "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, the one that got him on Stalin's blacklist ( Though that might just be the trailer , which might be misleadign for a reason – Not to spoil the ending ). He was supposed to be praising the idea this movie shares, but ihe ended up making it very very critical of the personal application of such politics, as Zemyatin knew all too well form personal experience under the Soviet system. Hell, even "Predestination" admitted it was actually " . . . All You Zombies. . . "

"Russia keeps on producing movies which are almost always above the quality of American productions"

Well, that does make me curious. I also liked Daywatch and Nightwatch, but I haven't seen much other contemporary Russian film.

There was a vaguely interesting movie on tv a few years ago about a Russian city full of invisible monsters that only appeared as they were about to kill you. It was interesting, neither better nor worse than similar American movies.

I want to see the one about the giant spaceship that crashes into a big Russian city; I forget the title.

I think you mean 'Attraction'.

'Брестская крепость' (Fortress Brest) is one I like about WWII. 'Sebastopol', and 'The 28 Panphilov's men' not so much at all.

i saw 9th company recently, I thought it was cool when they fight to one man in hand to hand on that hill in A stan. Then i looked it up and a 39 man company (damn Russians have small Companys) actually only took 6 dead and a whole lot of wounded. There was no hand to hand in real life. Put it down to Russian propaganda I guess.

Covert Walrus thank you I will try to watch it.
Also Daywatch and Nightwatch. I may have to change my ideas of them?

Russians are not the only one who made "propaganda" movies… moslty all countries did…

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Armand

The premise sounds interesting.

I'd be willing to watch it if they'd dub it into English, since I hate subtitles.

Tango 1 obviously Russian movies take the propaganda to a new level. I mean I saw a recent Russian movie based on Stalingrad and the Russian troops advanced across the Vulga while BURNING and defeated the German troops on the other side. This is while the Russian troops were ON FIRE. Cmon, Russian propaganda is only bested by Chinese or Korean propaganda.

Well… I have seen A LOT of movies from this side of the world SO ridiculous about War… (smile)… this (or others) not surprice me as different…

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Armand

This upcoming movie is based on Zemyatin's "We". I read it years ago for a university class. It was an interesting dystopian vision written in 1921-1922, right after The Bolshevik Revolution and RCW! Why Stalin and company didn't kill Zemyatin is anyone's guess, but they let him escape to Paris.

Uparmored, you mean that's not accurate and therefore propoganda?

Than how do you view "U 571"?

So the plotlines have caught up to Lucas's THX1138 from the mid 70's.

And the production values have caught up with 'A Sci-Fi Channel Original' circa 1998.

Might be a good movie, but I don't see it as evidence for such a sweeping characterization.

Never seen U571 but the worst Western propaganda I've seen lately is Horse Soldiers, where they're literally on horseback during the final battle. Total .

However EVERY Russian movie I've seen on war has greatly exagerrated the facts to favor Russian heroism.