I went and saw this recently... it is fucking amazing, I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a superior visual joyride set to a kickass soundtrack!
From imdb.com: "Day Watch (Russian: Dnevnoi Dozor), a Russian fantasy action blockbuster marketed as "the first film of the year", opened in theatres across Russia on January 1, 2006 and opened in the U.S. on June 1, 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast. It is based on the second and the third part of Sergey Lukyanenko's novel The Night Watch rather than its follow-up novel Day Watch. The film's budget was USD$4.2 million and was expected to gross $40 million in Russia alone. It is the second part in the Night Watch trilogy, although the third film (Dusk or Twilight Watch) is as yet unmade."
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qualmI enjoyed Night Watch.
Farhad2000Timur Bekmambetov, the director of the film actually filmed a Roger Corman remake of Arena
He also studied in Tashkent
Imagoaminsays...I never understood why the first one was so popular.. Movie was pretty bad. =\
WolandJust my opinion, but I think "Night Watch" failed to impress you for two main reasons:
- the production was big-budget enough for you to subconsciously feel it was on the same level as something like "The Matrix" (the trailers certainly made it appear so), but it had "corny" bits that didn't come off right because of our "filter" of what makes a good sci-fi movie
- the subtitles were awful, and the sentiments of the book in its native language did not come off right; Russian is not an easy language to translate when it comes to emotions, art, philosophy, etc.
- third bonus reason: they're still learning how to make movies that appeal to western audiences in Russia (but they're well on their way IMHO); this was really the first "big-budget" film there, and all the standard "Hollywood" pitfalls apply
ravenWell, they certainly made up for the subtitle mistakes in Day Watch, I'm not sure about the quality of the translation of course, but what they did with the subtitles was pretty impressive... they would fade in and out in response to the intensity of the dialogue, get larger, smaller, or jump about, get slashed by flying weaponry, and often appear onscreen in places atypical of a subtitle... from a visual standpoint, I found that to be a pretty sweet lil' touch
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