The one I visited in Zelenograd was mostly like an American cineplex, but you purchased tickets with specified seats in advance instead of just general admission. American movies are treated with high-quality dubbing, eliminating the English voices entirely and doing a pretty good job of matching up sounds with lip movements.
This dubbing is suitable only for person who do not understand Russian (sorry, no offence). The translation goes so far from original sense of film... Sounds pretty good but so unnatural... I can not call it quality. But maybe you've seen some older soviet dubbing? What the film it was?
So true. I usually take a matreshka, a balalayka and a perestroyka with me when I go to see a movie in Russia. When watching the movie, it's hard to see the screen because all Russians sitting in the next row wear those huge fur hats.
To tell you the truth I've never seen any cinema in any other country (Ukraine is not counted) not in movie. So... First of all we do not have many movie theaters. Well, in Moscow there are probably 100 or 200 cinemas. Not sure. Seems it is not an amount for such a big city. Several years ago most of them were in miserable condition. Imagine dozen of expensive-ticket-cinemas and two hundreds of cinema debris. Some of those have become casinoes, clubs or even marketplaces. Now movie theaters are more like in Europe and USA (IMHO). Comfortable chairs, dolby surround, popcorn (yes, popcorn! - I hate it). And films are mostly the same Hollywood blockbusters ("Spiderman","Terminator3","I-Robot" and so on). Sad picture. We do have our own russian movies, but their quality (and profit from their demonstration) is far from american films. Of course when I say "quality" I mean ONLY technologilal superiority and computer graphics.
You can quite easily see that there are two kinds of cinemas in Russia: the old ones and the new ones. The old ones are very primitive, with awful sound, incomfortable seats, and, sorry, no pop corn. Of course, they are unbelieveably cheap (a ticket may cost $1 or even less). It's hard to find such ones in Moscow and in Saint Petersburg (I suppose) but most of the provincial theatres are like these. The new cinemas are just like European or American ones, you can hardly tell any difference. Yep, except for the fact that they often sell tickets with seat numbers. The vast majority of the foreign films are dubbed (both in cinema and on TV), which may be a good case for a Russian learner if they've already seen this movie in English. However, some movie theatres (like America Cinema in Moscow) show films with original sound and optional Russian translation via headphones.
While others are making fun of stereotypes, i'd dare to anwser.
Cinemas inherited trom soviet times are really somewhat ugly. But recently many quality ones had been build. There's some drive-ins (even in my town), and there's IMAX in Moscow.
On dubbing. Yes, it's ugly - sometimes. But some are pretty good, e.g. Pirates Of Carribean.
The most modern movie theatres (such as "Crystall Palace" or "Mirage-Cinema" in St. Petersburg) are identical to ones in USA (and they're more advanced than some little movie theatres in American towns sometimes).
But I'd rather not to go there because I can't watch movies in Russian "translation." It's painful :)
When will we learn to watch foreign movies with subtitles, not dubbing, I wonder?
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Date: 2004-10-18 09:54 pm (UTC)Awful-quality dubbing
Date: 2004-10-19 01:11 am (UTC)But maybe you've seen some older soviet dubbing? What the film it was?
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Date: 2004-10-18 11:27 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2004-10-19 12:31 am (UTC)Do you like Lenin movies as much, as i love them?
Hou many times you watch "Draught Lenin" movie?
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Date: 2004-10-19 07:46 am (UTC)Difficult to compare
Date: 2004-10-19 01:06 am (UTC)Several years ago most of them were in miserable condition. Imagine dozen of expensive-ticket-cinemas and two hundreds of cinema debris. Some of those have become casinoes, clubs or even marketplaces.
Now movie theaters are more like in Europe and USA (IMHO). Comfortable chairs, dolby surround, popcorn (yes, popcorn! - I hate it). And films are mostly the same Hollywood blockbusters ("Spiderman","Terminator3","I-Robot" and so on). Sad picture. We do have our own russian movies, but their quality (and profit from their demonstration) is far from american films. Of course when I say "quality" I mean ONLY technologilal superiority and computer graphics.
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Date: 2004-10-19 01:30 am (UTC)The new cinemas are just like European or American ones, you can hardly tell any difference. Yep, except for the fact that they often sell tickets with seat numbers.
The vast majority of the foreign films are dubbed (both in cinema and on TV), which may be a good case for a Russian learner if they've already seen this movie in English. However, some movie theatres (like America Cinema in Moscow) show films with original sound and optional Russian translation via headphones.
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Date: 2004-10-19 02:20 am (UTC)Cinemas inherited trom soviet times are really somewhat ugly. But recently many quality ones had been build. There's some drive-ins (even in my town), and there's IMAX in Moscow.
On dubbing. Yes, it's ugly - sometimes. But some are pretty good, e.g. Pirates Of Carribean.
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Date: 2004-10-20 10:23 am (UTC)But I'd rather not to go there because I can't watch movies in Russian "translation." It's painful :)
When will we learn to watch foreign movies with subtitles, not dubbing, I wonder?