Posts from "Volkodav": the film and the book.

The promotional campaign for "Wolfhound" is in full swing, and it's quite effective. I would have gone to see this movie anyway, but it turns out the rest of my family wants to see it too. We're planning our first family trip to the cinema in three years!
Regarding this, I have two questions:

Are you going to see "Wolfhound"?
Have you read the book?

I read it. I won’t go.

Haven't read it. But I might go if someone invites me. Besides, I really like Akinshina (just her appearance, not her acting skills).

I've read the entire series, of course...
But whether I'll go to see the movie – I don't know yet...
To be honest, I didn't really like the book (although the poems are good).

Well... about three or four years ago, I saw the book in my boyfriend's hands. I glanced at it... it didn't impress me. I told him to read Tolkien instead, and after that, he didn't even remember "The Wolfhound" anymore...
But, either way, I haven't read it. So, I won't pass judgment.

I read the book, and I'm going to see the movie. I really liked the book – it's pretty good, I think. It's a shame they didn't tell me that there are two more books about him, otherwise I would have already started reading "Three from the Forest"... But I don't want to stop.

Three of the stories from the collection didn't appeal to me; in my opinion, the plot has many flaws, and the text follows the pattern of humor-action-philosophy-violence, action-violence-philosophy-humor. I haven't read Volkodav, but both of these books are foundational works of Russian fantasy, and that can excuse many of the shortcomings.

You don't seem to be very familiar with the world of Slavic fantasy, my friend. Semyonova wrote her Volkodav in 1995.

Nikitin, however, wrote "Three from the Forest" in 1992.

With some simple arithmetic, we can determine who is the founder of Russian fantasy? Especially since Semyonova's work has nothing Russian about it (in Volkodav, of course).

Volkodav is the first Russian fantasy novel, and it's actually quite good!

Maybe it should be Slavic after all?
I was just reading some reviews the other day. Wow. :D

I read the book a long time ago, when I was going to a pioneer camp (probably about 7 years ago), and I remember really enjoying it. So, I paid my respects to Semyonova by going to see the movie, and to be honest, I wasn't thrilled... but overall, I'd give it a 4 out of 5. Now I'm playing the 1C game, and it's not that difficult, but they've overdone the complexity of the quests, or maybe I just haven't played anything more challenging than Diablo in a while.

I'll share my opinion. As they said in KVN:
- What do you think is better? The movie "Volkodav" or the book?
- The book. At least it burns.
That's exactly how I feel. And the movie is just meaningless, although, apparently, the director's intention was to create something with a very deep meaning. The result is something where you can't understand absolutely anything, and there's nothing to help you understand that meaning.
Now about the book. I read it a very long time ago. And back then, I liked it because I had nothing to compare it to, and I was just a kid. Maybe nine years old, or even older. I don't remember. But now I can confidently say - it's nothing special. What's so interesting about reading about a cool, bearded guy who has no trouble taking someone down? You already know that in the end, he'll kill everyone and come out unscathed. There are supposedly some moral dilemmas, but they're very cheap and there's not a single bit of humor. If you want to read about cool guys, then read "The Witcher" - it has humor, better writing, more colorful characters, and more interesting problems. As mentioned above, I would also say - it's better to read Tolkien, although there are many flaws in his work, but as the founder of world fantasy, you can forgive him. And Volkodav is not the founder of fantasy in Russia. There were many other, much better books before it.
Just my opinion. With respect.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, the book never made it into my hands. However, the film did, and I was, to put it mildly, not impressed. To be blunt, I didn't even finish watching it. My jaw ached from yawning, I desperately fought off sleep, and then I gave up and went to do my own thing. Someone said, "They're adapting it to be like The Lord of the Rings" - ha! This film wasn't even close to being as good as The Lord of the Rings, which I don't even consider a masterpiece myself.
Volkodav is frankly a boring piece of work.

If anything, he was imitating Star Wars, the Jedi with their yellow laser swords. It didn't look like lightning at all.

I read the first book, but didn't get around to the rest. I liked it, although I enjoyed reading it even more. The movie... I don't understand why people don't like it; I really enjoyed the movie!