Commies.... I Hate Commies.

We haven’t yet been able to see the 4th installment of the Indiana Jones series yet but it appears the movie has been an annoyance to some folks we haven’t heard from in a while. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” has really got under the skin of some old Russian Communist Party hacks who have condemned the film.

"What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, a Communist Party member in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg.

Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country," said another party member, Andrei Gindos

Heavens, No!!!

Our movie-goers are teenagers who are completely unaware of what happened in 1957," St Peterburg Communist Party chief Sergei Malinkovich told Reuters
"They will go to the cinema and will be sure that in 1957 we made trouble for the United States and almost started a nuclear war."

True enough… that trouble came 5 years later.

(Full story here. Thanks to ‘Dawg for passing it along).

That these criticisms are of a fictional movie and come from a collective lot that should’ve been hung, drawn and quartered for their treatment of their own people… we’re not quite sure what to make of all of it. We thought everything was settled and we could look back on this with some humor, fun and nostalgia by which all the previous Indy movies were informed... We won – they lost – its cool. But if they want to revisit the Cold War all over again, fine by us. We’ll don our t-shirt, march down to the cinema this Memorial Day weekend and kick their asses one more time (cinematically speaking, of course).

Hope everyone is having a great weekend, thus far. Stay warm.