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Originally posted by Inertia i was quite aware they'd fuck this up as soon as it was announced. but i guess i'll see it regardless. and when are we gonna see some movies that portray Russia correctly? i don't know shit about Russia other than they drink a lot of vodka, have fine ass women and do sambo. i'd like to see a sambo movie.

since when do we do sambo?... all other speculations are spot on.

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Originally posted by Aristronica since when do we do sambo?... all other speculations are spot on.

since the ussr times? Anyways, they play chess more than do something physical like sambo. Unless it is drunken fights which happens a lot in Russia.

I never played the game, so if he dies in the game he has to die in the movie, right?

But if he completes the mission and stays alive in the game, then he survives in the movie, right?

It's kind of like that movie Crank, with Jason Stra-whatver his name is

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Originally posted by Aristronica since when do we do sambo?... all other speculations are spot on.

wait, WHAT?

sambo is the only art i know to be russian in origin.

world sambo championships = held in russia
world sambo champion = russian
PFC HW champion = sambo practicioner/russian (Fedor Emelianenko)

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Sambo (martial art) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sambo (Russian: (самбо) -- (also called Sombo in the US and sometimes written in all-caps) is a modern martial art, combat sport and self-defense system developed in the former Soviet Union, and recognized as an official sport by the USSR All-Union Sports Committee in 1938, presented by Anatoly Kharlampiev. The word Sambo is an acronym of САМозащита Без Оружия (SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya) meaning "self-defense without a weapon" in Russian. In 1980, Sambo was a demonstration sport at the Olympic Games in Moscow, Russia. However, due to boycotts, it failed to bring sufficient numbers for continued inclusion as a participatory game. The founders of Sambo deliberately sifted through all of the world’s martial arts available to them to augment their military’s hand-to-hand combat system. One of these men, Vasili Oschepkov, taught judo and karate to elite Red Army forces at the Central Red Army House. He had earned his nidan (second degree black belt out of then five) from judo’s founder, Kano Jigoro, and used some of Kano's philosophy in formulating the early development of the new Russian art.

so Russians don't do sambo?

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Originally posted by stan229 it pissed me off that none of the russian guys could speak russian.

That's what ruined Eastern Promises for me.