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Is Bratislava that Bad??
This is coming from my curiosity based on recent sketches about Bratislava, Slovakia based on movies.
Case study # 1 (Hostel)
> I recent watched a movie, Hostel. It was all-right... ( I am not a big fan of horror movies..) Anyway.. some on this movie was taken around Bratislava. And the movie has made me to wonder... ' Is Bratislava that Bad?' <1> Why does Bratislava have to be portraited as a place where poor people and lousy culture(Gangs... Torture...) are only part of that. No offense... I thought it was stupid for me to raise that question. I don't know about Bratislava yet. So I may not say something in professional manner. But to me the city and slovakia have more positive aspects to me then just recognizing as poor and tainted place.
Case study # 2 (Euro Trip)
> I don't know how many people would remember this movie. My point is Bratislave at this movie also portraited as poor place. I was like why do I have to see the painful differences between being in Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Yea... some places in Eastern Europe may not like places in Western Europe. But they are good people and have good culture.
My point here is..
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA is not that bad place. Also... Respect other countries' cultures even if you are just joking around... 
Hostel was just Eurotrip with less ass and more slicing & dicing.
wowza. Taking lifestyle lessons from Hollywood movies.
And I suppose everytime a teenager's parents leave, he converts their house into a brothel, sinks their Porsche into the river, and gets everything back to normal befor ethey come back as well?
Or has Hollywood lied to me?
No.
It can't be.
PLEASE SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!
Is Bratislava bad?
While seeing Hostel me and my buddies said the same thing! 
"What the fack is with Bratislava?!"
The economy of Bratislava is based mainly on services, engineering (Volkswagen) and electrical industry; there is also an important international road and railroad junction, Milan Rastislav �tef�nik international airport, and a river port. The GDP per capita (PPP) reaches 119% of the EU average, which is the second highest level (behind Prague) of all regions in all recent and expected acceding countries (Eurostat, data as of 2002; for data of 2000 see for example: [1])
Allow me to elaborate on part of my family's 'old country'... Well... it was Czechoslovakia back then, but I still have family on both Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Slovakia, along with other former eastern bloc countries used to have 'soft currency', under communist rule. This money was only worth something in that country, nowhere else. This is why the Korun (Crown) was worthless in comparison to ours on the foreign markets. People did not have the freedom to travel, unless they were high-ranked members of the communist party, or very low-risk-of flight travellers. People used to defect when they had a chance. Locals and 'street exchangers' would buy USD and any western hard currency and huge benefit to tourists, as there was an official exchange rate in banks, where tourists were only allowed to buy local currency there. The rate was much less in banks.
Because of the repressive and corrupt government rule, MANY girls were eager to hook up with a foreigner, like me 
, and will make you REALLY happy. And for little money too. A full pint of beer was about 45 cents in a downtown pub, tip included. The $1.78 or so in Eurotrip still would not allow you to live a life of luxury. But this is HOLLYWOOD, and everything is exagerated in the movies.
So the tiny truth based on folklore makes you believe from movies Bratislava is like that. It's still an extremely historic place to travel, and they do have raves (better in Prague though), and is eevrything is still very cheap in comparison. If you plan to travel, the quicket the better, because the economy is improving, as the coutries desire to join the European Union.
Na Zdrav�,
AJ
lol this thread is hilarious
yea Bratislava IS that bad 
didn't you know that Hostel is a documentary on the city?
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| Originally posted by infinity HiGH didn't you know that Hostel is a documentary on the city? |
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"Good thing you did not come in winter, it gets a little depressing here that time of a year"
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| Originally posted by SPANIARD Yeah, usually after you know the facts you don't open up a thread asking about what you know . |
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| Originally posted by malek The economy of Bratislava is based mainly on services, engineering (Volkswagen) and electrical industry; there is also an important international road and railroad junction, Milan Rastislav �tef�nik international airport, and a river port. The GDP per capita (PPP) reaches 119% of the EU average, which is the second highest level (behind Prague) of all regions in all recent and expected acceding countries (Eurostat, data as of 2002; for data of 2000 see for example: [1]) |
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| Film causes wrong kind of horror in Slovakia Tue Jan 31, 8:39 AM ET BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Better known to the outside world for their ice hockey players and stunning models, Slovaks are horror-struck that the smash-hit slasher film "Hostel" is giving them a bad name. The low-budget movie made a surprise debut in the United States, topping box office sales in early January. In the film, American backpackers are kidnapped, tortured and killed during a trip to the central European country. "It's so sad," said Alzbeta Melicharova, marketing head at Slovakia's state tourist board. "The events in the film are so absurd. They have nothing to do with reality. We are actually one of central Europe's safest places. It's one of our selling points." Scenes of teens locked in a dungeon, tortured with chainsaws and blowtorches and sold to sadists have shocked this tiny, mainly Catholic, nation that is trying to lure tourists away from the beaten paths that lead to Prague, Budapest and Vienna. This formerly communist nation of 5.4 million, independent for just 13 years, is not used to being the setting for Hollywood films, much less nightmarish ones. The film has yet to open in central Europe, but word of it has already spread to Slovakia, where radio and newspapers have blasted it, and Slovaks are puzzled and offended. Taxi driver Julius Horvath saw a photo from the movie in a newspaper of a dog chewing a human bone. "It's like something from a 1,000 years ago," he said. "Like Slovaks live in the jungle." IDEAL LOCATION American director Eli Roth said he chose Slovakia because it was close enough to backpacking meccas Amsterdam and Prague to be a plausible diversion for his heroes, but still unknown to most Western audiences. The film tells the story of a hostel-cum-dungeon, where wealthy foreigners pay to make snuff fantasies come true. "I would like to apologise to Slovaks for making them look like maniacs," Roth told Reuters in an email. "But if you look closely, the worst crimes are committed by Americans, Germans, Japanese and Dutch." Slovakia has rebounded from 40 years of communism to become a stable democracy with a thriving economy. Tourist brochures tout Slovakia's mountains, stretching over two-thirds of the country, and forests, covering 40 percent of Slovak land, and a multitude of ski slopes that make it the "eastern Alps". Roth's film instead shows broken-down communist-era cars, black-and-white television sets, gangs of children who kill for bubblegum -- an amalgam, he says, of the worst American stereotypes of the old Eastern Bloc. Melicharova has challenged Roth to visit Slovakia and see, in her words, what it is really like and the director said he would take up the offer during a promotional trip ahead of the central European release of "Hostel" on February 24. "I think I have to be a man and go there and face the music," he said. |
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| Originally posted by Ortemy "Good thing you did not come in winter, it gets a little depressing here that time of a year" |
Considering im half Slovak & got tons of family there, I gotta add in my two cents.
No Bratislava isnt a stinky dirty shithole like it is portrayed in that hollywood crap. (well, there are a few poor parts in some places.. but EVERY country in the world has poor dirty parts)
Its actaully a very beautiful country with a rich history and even more beautiful women (even more so then girls in poland.. which I thought was impossible).
The economy aint as great as some of the western countries in europe, but its nowhere near as bad as "EuroTrip" makes it seem to be.
Most of the country side is insanly beautiful too look at. But if that doesnt interest you.. did I mention the girls were all smoking hot?? 
more sex than killin goes on in hostels truss me
the womens
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| Originally posted by cyper Its actaully a very beautiful country with a rich history and even more beautiful women (even more so then girls in poland.. which I thought was impossible). |
Besides the old school communist buildings Slovakia has beautiful countrieside, and very warm and friendly people. 
Fuck Hostel.
thats funny, i was thinkin the same thing, but what else can u expect from hollywood??
Hostel sucked. period.
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