cook-gareth
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Inaudible dialogue made for a frustratingly irritating movie. The soundtrack "music" is terrible and WAY TOO LOUD.
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This is an amazing movie, well worth watching to see the Russian side of the story.
The sound of Leonov's breathing was recorded, and later looped into the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey.