IT’S NOT JUST HOLLYWOOD THAT MAKES ANTI-AMERICAN MOVIES THAT NOBODY WATCHES: They do it in Russia, too! But not everything is the same:

Interestingly, the linkage of “American” and “gay” is part of the mindset of hardcore America-hating in Russia: the preferred anti-American slur of recent years, pindos, bears a strong resemblance to pidoras, the Russian equivalent of “fag.”

Of course, that could have been in Redacted, too — who’d know? On the other hand, some things are the same: “The audiences didn’t like the film any more than the critics did. Not only was it crushed at the box office (unsurprisingly) by the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace; it was also trounced by the Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno–which made 13 million rubles (about $481,000) in its first week of release in Russia, compared to just 3.4 million rubles for Strangers.”