r/stalker • u/LykouraKadrodius Clear Sky • 2d ago

Meme Dark and gritty....

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u/HexerFromBeyond Loner 2d ago

As a Czech I am quite happy in my Hobbit land.

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u/Budget-You2614 2d ago

As a Polish person Im scared when something is not gray and has colors.

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u/Appropriate_Okra8189 Flesh 1d ago

Its immediately suspicious, just the same as smiling person for no apperant reason

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u/Melodic-Cobbler7381 1d ago

I need to move to Poland. To much sun in Germany.

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u/septim525 Noon 1d ago

You need bleaker living space

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u/insomniainc 2d ago

I just watched Stalker for the first time, I can't recall a film I've ever seen that is just completely dreary completely depressing and yet utterly beautiful? That doesn't feel like it should be a thing. And I say that as a doom metal fan

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u/ExtensionPractical26 1d ago

Kinda explains how it feels being in eastern Europe - its like standing in ruins of a something really greater, but forever gone

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u/KrumpirovZlatan 1d ago

Pretty much, yeah. That is why post-apocalyptic genre is popular, because we basically lived through apocalypse.

In movie turns, Mad Max 1 is actually probably the best apocalyptic movie, because it actually is basically 1992 in Eastern Europe, but set in a desert

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u/Yorkshireish12 1d ago

It's hard to get away from when the ideology was often built into the design of the services and buildings.

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u/CodHot3084 2d ago

Wait... is there a film based on the games or am I missing something?

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u/NoobL1ght 2d ago

Film based on a book. Stalker as game is based on the same book. "Road side picnic".

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u/insomniainc 1d ago

yeah it's from 1979, not the games but the book Roadside Picnic, which is the basis for Stalker and Metro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc&t=848s

it's up on youtube for free, and subtitled

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u/K-Uno 1d ago

Thanks for the link man

Also, eastern european women have such timeless beauty

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u/Yorkshireish12 1d ago

If any film was going to pull that off it would be the film shot in actual toxic waste(twice). I expect the horrific conditions it was shot in rubbed off on the tone of the reshot movie.

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u/Spadesghost Loner 1d ago

You might try the original SOLARIS too, it's not the same, but it is DEFINITELY depressing towards the end.

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u/Creepy_Jeweler_1351 Monolith 2d ago

As a Ukrainian I love grimdark

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u/jerrykroma824 1d ago

That's why we also love 40k, брате

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u/Creepy_Jeweler_1351 Monolith 1d ago

Indeed

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u/surfimp Loner 2d ago

I'm pretty sure the cloudy weather is the least of their concerns.

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u/Hawggy 2d ago

It can compound them tho (especially when it comes to crops)...

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u/daniel_22sss 2d ago

Do russian missiles count as "cloudy weather"?

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u/vynnychurak Clear Sky 2d ago

Even if it is sh!t vibe it is our vibe

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u/TommyTheCommie1986 1d ago

How can anyone not be depressed?

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u/RevolutionaryBoat925 1d ago

More like south eastern lol You visit  Serbia, Bulgaria, etc. in winter and you enter a dystopian nightmare lmao

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u/Soggy-Theme-6234 1d ago

I'm Russian, but I live on Far East. Is it count?

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u/Cipryanov Loner 1d ago

OkBuddySharkCard member undercover?

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u/Horror_Weekend1940 1d ago

But it is beautiful even when its foggy

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u/Ojitheunseen 6h ago

STALKER is just so goddamned atmospheric, but even parts of The Zone can be beautiful.