What are the worst anti-communist films you’ve ever seen? I’ll start us off with Enemy at the Gates
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Just gonna point out that the Anastasia animated movie depicts Rasputin as starting the Russian Revolution despite him getting offed a year before the revolution started.
That movie is a fascinating window into how and why libs think revolutions occur, though.
From Lord of the Rings to The Dark Knight Rises we hear the same story again and again and again: swarthy hordes are surreptitiously manipulated behind-the-scenes by crooked wizards and deceptive illusionists — often hiding in plain sight, in our midst! — and lay siege to everything that is balanced and well-rounded and pure and good and holy and white and which by rights should be eternal. The manipulators do so for no discernible reason other than greed and ressentiment.
revolutionaryth0t did a good video getting mad at/debunking all the ahistorical nonsense in that
I just realized there’s an extra layer of irony to it as the person who made the film, Don Bluth, also made An American Tail. In that film, a pogrom by the tsar-led Cossacks is a major plot point as it’s what drives the protagonist’s family out of Russia and to the US. So the man couldn’t even keep it straight if the Romanovs were blood thirsty antisemites or lovable fairy tale nobles.
according to Don BluthLovable fairy tale antisemites.
Well he was imitating Disney in many other ways
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I still can’t believe that a barely post Cold War kids movie set in the Russian Revolution missed the opportunity to make Lenin the villain.
But, then they’d have had to draw him (he’s like the Soviet Bear, impossible to draw in cartoon style without him looking cute) and give him a cool villain song. Lots of little reds might have been born from that.
Think we may have a winner
The Deer Hunter. It depicts the NVA of doing crimes the US actually did while they torture poor Yankee troops who never did anything wrong. Also what the fuck was that ending where they sing Amazing Grace out of nowhere?
Bridge of Spies. They completely fabricated the conditions experienced by the Americans captured by the Soviets. IRL the guy who the movie is based on said his stay was actually pleasant as they gave him a nice room with good meals, despite the fact he was a fucking spy they had every right to execute.
That one James Bond film where the North Korean officer puts someone in a punching bag to use as stuffing.
That one James Bond film where the North Korean officer puts someone in a punching bag to use as stuffing.
Funny enough this sounds like exactly the sort of depraved shit a British colonial governor would do, to the point that I find myself wondering if this is in “every accusation a confession” territory
Even in Bridge of Spies Abel gets sentenced to 30 years in prison down from a death penalty whereas Powers gets 10 years house arrest with 2 years in prison.
Charlie Wilson’s War is horseshit about how amerikkka successfully backed the Taliban in the 80s against the commies. And at the end it says we gotta build the schools and industry or Afghanistan might be a problem for us in the future. The very stuff the soviets were advising the Afghan government on.
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Forrest Gump but that’s low hanging fruit
That movie was one of my favorites as a lib and I had seen it a couple of times. I don’t think I could watch it today without rolling my eyes so much I’d get dizzy.
It aged so poorly: “boomer goes through life with no agency and amazing things happen to him and around him and he ends up rich without really trying” is every spoiled boomer trope in film form.
Don’t forget the open anti intellectualism. Who needs to think when youre born at the right time?
Yeah that ties into the lack of agency. That generation didn’t need to think about things, no choices made that they can be held responsible for, an existence entirely in the passive voice.
It’s bad. Nicely shot I guess but really bad. Boomer nostalgia all the way through
Same. I used to really love that movie, but not sure I could watch it now without rolling my eyes the whole time.
Red Scorpion (1988)
Lieutenant Nikolai Petrovitch Rachenko (Dolph Lundgren), a Soviet Spetsnaz operative from Ukraine, is sent to an African country in which Soviet and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement. He is tasked with the mission to assassinate the rebel leader. Rachenko infiltrates the rebel movement and to get within striking distance of his target, he stirs up trouble in the local bar and gets arrested for disorderly conduct. He is put in the same cell as a captured resistance commander and gains his trust in facilitating the escape. Upon finally reaching the rebel encampment, he is met with distrust by the rebels. During the night, he attempts to assassinate his target, but the distrustful rebels anticipate his actions.
Disgraced and tortured by his commanding officers for failing his mission, he breaks out of the interrogation chamber and escapes to the desert, later to be found by native Bushmen. He soon learns about them and their culture, and after he receives a ceremonial burn scar in the form of a scorpion (hence the title), he joins the rebels and leads an attack against the Soviet camp after a previous attack on the peaceful bushmen. Nikolai obtains an experimental assault rifle from the armory, confronts his corrupt officers and hunts down Colonel General Oleg Vortek, who attempts to escape in a Mil Mi-24 Hind, only to be shot down after takeoff. Nikolai defeats and kills Vortek, as the rebels finally defeat the Soviet forces who were assisting the government.
The movie is “What if Russia did the Highway of Death, actually?” levels of deranged.
Somehow I feel he stops speaking in a bad Russian accent the instant he realises communism is bad and speaks with an American accent the rest of the film.
This movie was produced by the apartheid South African government.
Red Dawn is pretty hard to beat for this, but I recently came across Invasion USA (actual movie starts ~16min in) while revisiting MST3K episodes and it is stunning how overt the propaganda is
I was initially excited to learn that MST3K did a riff on the awful Chuck Norris movie of the same title, and was quickly disappointed to find that it’s not the same Invasion USA.
But yeah, this and the Chuck Norris one were both awful.
Red Dawn is the archetype of so bad they’re good Cold War movies - I love watching this crap when I’m feeling bloodthirsty. Yeah, the commies always lose in the end, but sometimes we win a good few battles first.
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I want to nominate an older example, which is all the more insidious because it comes from great German and Austrian Jewish emigre filmmakers who made this anti-Communist garbage in 1939, when you’d think they’d have more urgent enemies to prioritize. The film is Ninotchka, by Ernst Lubitsch. Billy Wilder co-wrote the screenplay, and Greta Garbo stars in the title role. It’s a romantic comedy about a White Russian aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) trying to stop the Soviets from selling his family jewels. He falls for the humorless envoy (Garbo) who arrives to facilitate the sale.
Sally Jane Black, on Letterboxd, has an excellent review that I’ll quote at length because the filter won’t let me link directly to her profile. At the moment it’s the fourth review from the top on this page.
In 1939, Ernst Lubtisch, Billy Wilder, and a handful of other bootlicking hacks made Ninotchka, which paints the Soviet Union as drab, dull, inadequate, patronizing, heartless, loveless, and cold. It might have sometime been cold, I admit. This was, after all, before capitalists had inflicted the level of pollution and destruction that would bring about climate change.
But loveless and heartless? How dare they. To read Marx’s words on love is to understand a love greater than any individualistic lie capitalism has produced. To be a communist is to be driven by love for humanity beyond anything a capitalist is capable of. No one who thrives off the work of others while those workers starve is a person who knows love.
Patronizing? This is fundamentally opposed to the proletariat’s interests. It is capitalists–who often style themselves as philanthropists–who are patronizing. It is this film that is patronizing in its portrayal of a Soviet woman who speaks to a man in a robotic, monotone, direct manner that is lifeless, as if she is inhuman and must be taught to love.
“Will you smile?” At least it captures bourgeois misogyny.
I watched Sisu: Road to Revenge a few days ago, and boy was that some hot garbage.
Never heard of it, but did a Google and all I had to know was that it was Finnish and filmed in Estonia lol
I’m sure if looked at closely, it would be funded my AmeriKKKans somehow.
Oh man, been seeing the ghoulish movie ads on bus stops that they are doing for these shit ultra-nationalist films. Such a clear show of what the bougies want everyone to think.
Never going to watch it but morbidly curious on how bad it was?
Most of the action scenes either don’t make sense, or are physically impossible. It was one of those movies where they don’t seem to have used storyboards, they just had a four year-old act out the scenes with toys.
I think it’s a sequel, and that may have set up the enmity between the protagonist and antagonist, but it seems as if it’s supposed to take place shortly after the Winter War, so the protagonist is basically trying to move his house back into Finnish territory after the border shifted. The eViL uSsR releases a war criminal to go after the also-war-criminal-but-for-Finland protagonist, and that’s the movie.
Oh lord… So it’s full on anti-Soviet bs as I suspected.
The bougies got to do decades of “finlandization this, finlandization that”, but they are still so hurt that this shit just keeps on escalating. The rewriting of history is on spectacular levels, has been since the 90s (wonder what happened then, it’s a mystery /s).
Well, you asked for it. Here it is. Drumroll please
The Soviet Story (2008)
The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
“A film by Edvins Snore”
Sounds like nominative determinism strikes again!
slaughtered its own people
Damn, if only they’d done what colonial powers like the US, UK, and France did and slaughtered someone else’s people, they’d be the good guys
No no no, see, it’s not them slaughtering millions, it’s the market.
It’s a movie made by the Nationalist party. They’re the only people who watch it too.
Which is ironic isn’t it? Evil Mass Murdering regime left so much of their opposition alive for some reason.
I wish the towns people of villages that the “Freedom Fighters” liquidated could also be alive to share their own stories in a movie too.
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971) Southern Baptist anti-communist slop, so bad it’s hilarious.
https://archive.org/details/if-footmen-tire-you-what-will-horses-do-1
This is on BYNWR which is full of restored B-movie slop restored by the director of Drive. I’ll acknowledge it’s slop but I’m still kind of interested in watching it
Oldie, but there was the miniseries Amerika showing how horrific it would be to live under communism.
Need to rewatch, because pretty sure the drab apartments portrayed as hell in the 1980s are anove average worker means today . . .
Atomic Blonde is all about the soviets trying to start something right before the fall of the Berlin wall. A UK spy is the main bad guy because he went corrupt but somehow the soviet union is still bad?
