"Psychological projection is the process of misinterpreting what is "inside" as coming from "outside". - - In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against disowned and highly negative parts of the self by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others, breeding misunderstanding and causing untold interpersonal damage."
Soviet Movies, left to right:
Guest from the Future (Гостья из Будущего), Per Aspera ad Astra (Сквозь Тернии к Звездам)
Moscow-Cassiopeia (Москва-Кассиопея), Guest From the Future (again)
Kin-Dza-Dza (Кин-дза-дза), The Witches Cave (Подземелье Ведьм)
Moscow-Cassiopeia (again), This Merry Planet (Эта весёлая планета)
I don't know this one, She Fell from clouds (Spadla z oblakov)
To my knowledge, they didn't usually make movies like that. Even their adventure films tend to be sort of comic and meditative. White Sun of the Desert, a Soviet version of American Westerns, is an adventure film set in Turkmenistan during the Revolution, but its gunfights and action scenes aren't exactly exciting (though it is a good movie, and considered a beloved classic). One Soviet film that had a huge budget and enormous battle and action scenes, was Sergei Bondcharuk's 8-hour adaptation of War and Peace.
Tarkovsky's Solaris was better than the American remake.
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The remake from 2000 something with that dude from ocean's 11?
Both of those predate the post-Jaws, Alien and Star Wars blockbuster era though, and I wonder if it influenced their films at all.
I mean, the Soviet Union collapsed in the late-80s / early-90s. Hollyweird was still picking up steam back then.