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I liked it!

posted 8 years ago by VartanD
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Stop the over thinking, guys. Just enjoy the damned movie. Shut the hell up and pass the popcorn!

I gave it a seven. Was a six earlier but heck, I liked it. Not like I'm going to run out of points to give out.

Most of the ex-soviet filmed movies with soviet armor and firepower are B-grade at best. Most have such glaring faults that they're hard to follow. This one wasn't. It was as good as any US-made scifi with the same budget. Better, in fact, because a buck goes so much farther in those ex-soviet countries. Seemed like a real high end, high budget movie. If it *was* 60 million US or whatever, that would have been a huge budget over there.

[–] MarwoodWalks 8 years ago

I liked it aswell, in fact I gave it an 8. It looked amazing, was very well made, interesting and exciting plot...can't really expect more from a sci fi action movie.

But one point, this was a 'US made' film in that the production companies, actors, finance etc were from Hollywood.

"I'll hit you with so many rights you'll be begging for a left."

[–] VartanD 8 years ago

Made with ex-soviet armor, aircraft, APC's etc in an ex-soviet occupied city/country. Come on, people. The tanks that were identified as "Abrams" were Soviet T-55's with add on plywood. The fighters were Mig-21's it looked like. There were two BMP's, a BTR etc.

In ex-soviet, Warsaw Pact countries, you can rent that stuff for a song. What you'd pay to rent ONE Abrams here would get you a platoon of modified T-55's there.

[–] MarwoodWalks 8 years ago

The tanks that were identified as "Abrams" were Soviet T-55's with add on plywood.

And the people identified as 'soldiers' were actually actors dressed up like soldiers. Its a movie, who cares if the equipment is correct or mocked up to look correct...its all make believe.

Can't blame a film maker for wanting to save cash on these details, still a very enjoyable film.

"I'll hit you with so many rights you'll be begging for a left."

[–] VartanD 8 years ago

And the people identified as 'soldiers' were actually actors dressed up like soldiers. Its a movie, who cares if the equipment is correct or mocked up to look correct...its all make believe.

Well, either you forgot the thread you were posting in or that went right over your head. And in those "ex-soviet countries", the "soldiers" really do tend to be soldiers....you can hire them pretty cheaply, too. That's why you tend to have a lot of realism in gun scenes. As opposed to Brit movies where the ACTOR is holding a rifle by the trigger guard, or the American one where the ACTOR is firing a rifle four inches below the sight plane of the weapon. As I said, movies made in ex-soviet countries give more bang for the buck. They tend to be pretty decent. This one was very decent.

[–] MarwoodWalks 8 years ago

Well, either you forgot the thread you were posting in or that went right over your head.

Nope, you started by saying it was well made, then post some contradictory stuff about the tanks being mock ups etc.

the "soldiers" really do tend to be soldiers

and the actors were actors dressed up like soldiers, its not real. And being a soldier in real life is one thing, looking convincing as a soldier in a film is totally different. Who cares if you can hold the rifle correctly if you look at the camera and get nervous and don't move naturally on camera.

This one was very decent.

Yes it was, don't know what your issue is.

"I'll hit you with so many rights you'll be begging for a left."

[–] john-3053 8 years ago

I liked it also. Kept me for two hours.

[–] kellogem6 8 years ago

by "ex-soviet" you mean it was filmed in Budapest, Hungary?

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[–] doenormaaljoh 8 years ago

I fully agree, this was top notch for what it was!

[–] TRinzler 8 years ago

It was an enjoyable standlone sci-fi film which had an engineer (rather than the soldiers) as the main protagonist and hero for a change, for which it gets kudos in my book! It's just a shame the female lead wasn't allowed more of a contribution.