Film = Govno (Crap) !

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I don't know where to start so I will keep it short while your profile is still here.

It bothers me how aggressive most Russians have become. Rather than bring up coherent and intelligent arguments to defend your point, you simply try to silence and humiliate others. I suppose you still live in Russia so you are a product of your environment: crime, unemployment, lack of democracy.... Yet, you have yet to learn about the greatest right on this planet: freedom of speech. Just like you have a right to spit out your libelous, immature refuse, I have a right to talk freely about a movie I did not like (mind you, in a polite and civil manner, unlike you) without being called a traitor and threatened.

I don't know why I reply to a silly trash like you who registered onto this board to post twice about what's probably one of the worst Russian movies I have seen in a long time. Kid, wake up. You are as uncivil as most of the country you live in. They feed you garbage and you eat it up like it's candy. Good boy!
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I have seen through the eyes of a wolf and felt all its pain and loneliness...

I rather liked the movie. I love Hisaishi's music, so Rota's soundtrack was really The thing that made me enjoy the movie even more.
Maybe it's somewhat lacking in terms of complex story telling and also very predictable, but what isn't nowdays? Okay, maybe Revolver;)
I've seen lots of different war movies and most of them had one simple message:
Is this young boy's life worth it? So does 9-th rota. And it passes it's message straight. Russian films have gone really **** for the past 15 years, but 9-th rota is a good example of things improving.
I'd say 7/10.

As for your 1#:

Why people today still make movies about WW2 which was more than 50 years ago?

I don't think 15 years mark any irrelevancy.

"1) The movie is irrelevant; it is about 15 years too late to be provocative. Sure, Afghanistan remains a powerful lesson in Soviet history but there is a war in Chechnya, why not do a movie about that? "

then tell me why there are many movies about ww2 and so few about War in iraq ? accually there are no movies about war in iraq (a mean the second one not the desrt storm :/

and there allready is movie about chechnya it is called The War (Voyna) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309047/ a very good movie too

" a) The plot is too predictable; it does not take a genius to figure out what's going to happen, "

what do you want if it is based on true story ? you to see how some aliens fly and kill some russians in the middle of the movie or what ? :/

accually i really liked this movie, and i just can't see why you hated it so much...

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I couldn't say the movie was trash, but I do agree with the rest of xdurakx arguments; this movie is so commercial it doesn't take a critic's eye to see that it was intended for thee masses;

take for comparison any American movie about Vietnam, Full Metal Jacket, Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now or We were soldiers;

the story: I don't know how many Russian movies haave been made about Afghanistan, but this one is not the ultimate piece, the idea of forgotten army fighting in a foreign country for an ideal and a nation that no longer existed is poor and has not been articulated throughout the movie, until thee show-up of the high-rank officer who tells the survivors there's no more army to come;

the heroism and camaraderie of the unit made of fresh recruts: while the characters were so vivid and there was some good acting and good scenes,there was no real emphasis on individuals, and their acting seemed as such in certain moments, i.e the semtex/dildo scene;

the action: no real flow, no imagination: we have their arrival at Baghram - which is the single most impressive part of the movie (including the rocket fire at the jet), then several standoffs with the locals, and then the defending of the gorge, which takes some three reprises of the same sort of assault;

pan views and pirotechnics are fine, the actors seem dedicated, but individual action fights and situations are lacking inventivity, coming well below Taegugki or We were soldiers;

I was expecting to see any reference to the religious fanaticism of the talibans and to their backing by Americans, that would have added more substance to the movie and alslo more justification, but nothing, only some fantomatic black-dressed dudes shooting from every corner; and the most stupid scene of the movie, bombing the village because one of their own has bene shot by a kid;

the idea of war is hell and whoever doesn't know history doesn't know how to fight in Afghanistan: yeah, we've heard and seen seen that before, but nobody learns nothing...see Chechnya;

and speaking of Chechnya, why didn't you guys make a movie about that, it would have been much more actual?

Movie might be not as historicaly accurate as it was advertised, and it sure has some of mistakes(big, small, w/e), but overall it is a good, somewhat emotional piece of modern Russian culture.
I understand why people might not like it, especially immigrants hating all russian(which is a totaly different topic), but if calling this movie "garbage"...
Doing that just shows your highly poor, stereotyped way of judging things. If it doesn't have a million-dollars-hollywood-special-effects and crazy, unpredictable plot - it doesn't mean that the movie is crap.

This movie definately worth time and money... hmm, no, just time, that I spend on it.
9ya Rota - 8/10


xdurakx - dude, kill yourself and save us from reading your ****** opinions in the future.