Monday, May 26, 2008

Russia's Leaders Need to Watch More Movies

When I read this report on Yahoo!, I felt like taking hold of some of these old guys and tell them, "Hey! Fiction lah!"

Unless they've been using the Indiana Jones movies to teach their children history. Hmmmm... too poor to create proper historical movies?

Wonder what would happen if they took the Phua Chu Kang series and taught their businessmen that that was the way Singaporean businessmen looked like?

LOL.

MOSCOW - Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist competing in 1957 with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.

It hit Russian screens Thursday.

Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 "did not send terrorists to the States," but launched a satellite, "which evoked the admiration of the whole world."

Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday "it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."

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