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Wonderful Trailer For NOCHNOJ DOZOR (aka NIGHT WATCH) Lands Online! One of the Greatest Cool As Hell Films!
Hey folks, Harry here... Since last summer AICN has been telling you about NIGHT WATCH, and I'm not gonna stop now. This movie is coming, and when it hits a theater near you... GO! It is so rare that a film at the coolness level of CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, DAY OF THE BEAST, DEAD ALIVE or EVIL DEAD 2 hits America with a big national push. The film is beyond phenomenal - and what is even more amazing is how FOX SEARCHLIGHT is supporting the film. They spent a fortune to create something that is essentially the coolest possible version of subtitles. Something we've never seen in the history of foreign films, but we most likely will see more of after this film. Foreign Film exhibition in this country has always been an either DUB it or SUBTITLE it type of thing, and it looks like Fox Searchlight hit upon an idea that preserves the original flavor of the film being Russian, while also making it perfectly clear as subtitles - what it is they're saying... but that is, in and of itself cool as hell. I'm dying to see it on the big screen - and yes I am working on having screenings of the film in places all over that AICN can point ya to. But first here's the trailer:
Click here to watch the NIGHT WATCH trailer!
Well, I hope you enjoyed that as much as me! But if you didn't... baby Jesus weeps for you. Take care.
To the Talkbackers below advocating picking this up on Import DVD - and to you readers considering it too. Don't. In just a very short amount of time this will be in a theater. On the big screen. The subtitles on the import discs are piss poor - not in reading quality, but in actual translation. The theatrical version of this that will be playing very soon in theaters near you were adapted by the screenwriter that has written James Cameron's BATTLEANGEL ALITA, and the word is they are absolutely stunning. Plus - Fox spent gobs of money to create a new form of subtitles that are unlike anything we've ever seen before and actually ENHANCE the emotional connection and stylization of the film. If you can't stop yourself and have to see an inferior product immediately - remember all of this when the film comes out and go see the film. This isn't going to be playing just in the major cities at a Landmark theater - where most of you can't see it. They're planning on a wider release than that. Support this - or the only place you'll see movies like this is on your precious import DVDs, and we all know we'd kill to see many of those that you already own up on the big screen the first couple of times we saw it. Right?
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Yeah that's all I got.
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it looks like a washed out mtv video. completely aimed at our ADD peers. way too artsy in some bits--i predict it will be too distracting from the story and you'll leave the theatre thinking "huh?"
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So tell us what the hell is so special about the subtitles? do they have blubs like in comic books? Whats the big f-in secret here.
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Apr 07, 2005 3:47:57 AM CDT
Y'know I've had the DVD for weeks and haven't gotten round to wa
by grando
Picked it up from eBay, legit Russian copy with English subs. I'll watch it tonight I think.
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Time to do a Newzbin search!
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Probably will pick it up on import DVD or so.
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cause it's not that good. It's actually quite poor. It requiers you to have read the books and know every character in the film thus making it hard to follow and understand. I don't know if Fox have recut the film to eliminate all the unnesesary parts, like the whole thing about the "Funnel" to make the story flow better. It would help alot.
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that the trailer makes it out to be much better than it actually is.
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Apr 07, 2005 8:41:56 AM CDT
Replace "wonderful" with "woeful", "greatest" with "shittiest",
by salvatoregravano
Oh, by the way, if I wanted to "consider picking this up on 'Import' DVD", I would have, and I wouldn't need the English subs, so speak of your own problems. Needless to say, I won't, since this "film" is such garbage.
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Apr 07, 2005 8:48:57 AM CDT
By the way, I know Harry loved tons of horrible flicks ("Van Hel
by salvatoregravano
Not even "Sky Craptain"... And at least the reason for shilling the Texas Chainsaw Rape was obvious - what's the secret behind doing it for *this* awful film?
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I hope that midi soundtrack is in the whole movie. Nothing beats a foreign horror film with a midi soundtrack.
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How does harry see this film ages before its even out over here he must of seen the dvd which he says has piss poor subs. Ive herd loads of ppl like tarintino have seen it they must have seen the dvd.
So how can it be so piss poor if most of the big shots have seen it and said how great it is.
The new subs are for the american release which isent even out yet so what version has harry seen. -
Here's a short clip Searchlight posted a few weeks back where Tarantino gives his $.02 on Nightwatch:
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I get a lot of the DVDs sent from abroad to a local bookstore in my house. That's partly because the post office has a nasty habit of leaving small parcels on the front doorstep of my apartment block if it won't fit the mailbox.
And by strange co-incidence, the same day the only Russian film I've bought on DVD arrived there, there was a couple of Russians inside the store, the only time I've ever seen any.
Anyway, I asked one of them if they were Russian (they were a bit guarded at this point) and then I showed them the DVD box. It was probably the last thing they were expecting to see. Which is probably why he said "Oh My God!".
His opinion of the film - warned me that I might be disappointed and that he had no intention to see it. Not a completely uncommon reaction amongst Russians even depsite its success I hear. I also seem to remember he looked at the box for an awfully long time as I'm quite sure it was the last thing he expected to see in Eastern Sydney ...
Then he went back to looking for maps of Melbourne. I don't think he was in an increased hurry to leave the city ... -
Apr 07, 2005 11:44:10 AM CDT
Despite some heavy product placement and difficult subs this was
by gigaloff
And that was a brilliantly cut trailer, showcasing the pretty fx and photography without giving the plot away. Bring on Day Watch!
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Apr 07, 2005 11:47:26 AM CDT
Knowles - you got no fucking right telling people what to do and
by genro
The reality is if the film is that good, then critical word-of-mouth will supercede the number of people who 1) have a clue as to where to find imports and 2) have access to zero region players. You know that 100% of the importers are from the film-geek world, but they are a sliver of the viewing public. So save the tears for Searchlight, because it makes you look like you've got more than a personal stake in this flick, coughRideWithTheDevilcough...
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These new subtitles wouldn't be like the one's Tony Scott pioneered in Man on Fire would they?
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i just can't place it.
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Has anyone seen the dvd import if so
are the subs that bad?
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A: That movie looks like nerd heaven, I don't get you guys sometimes. I can't wait to see it. You guys need to relax and enjoy things more often even if they don't make you cream your jeans they can still be fun.
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Apr 07, 2005 3:40:04 PM CDT
hopefully the filmmakers did not skimp on story and characters f
by trader groucho 2
This trailer did not present any person for the audience to relate to, and the premise of UN peacekeepers on earth keeping the angels and demons at bay - wait, didn't I just see that movie? With Keanu Reeves in it?
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This movie is partially popular because it is based on a very popular (and most excelent) Russian book (part of a trilogy, thus movie trilogy). And this movie does not do it justice - neither in special effects nor in story. I would love to see this done right, but this would be the most expensive series ever.
BTW, The movie opens with the battle scene that takes place in 15th century (subtitle says 1492, I think) and leads to the "Deal" - Yet everyone, includincg the commercial, keeps talking about "thousand years ago" - WTF??? -
Something makes me think that the subs will be text that explains everything that's in the film that you don't understand, which is to say will be alot.
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i just watched that trailer.......and.....yeah.....that was some odd shit.
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The song used in the trailer is "M83 - Unrecorded".
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i was really excited after reading a lot of stuff on the internet about this movie(mostly harry) and i came across it a few weeks ago. i have to say that i wasn't impressed at all...it was decent, yeah, but not nearly as great as some people are making it sound. for one, in some parts of the movie, you can tell it's just trying to be "cool" and it just doesn't work...the camera work is not the greatest, lots of odd angles and quick cuts in an attempt to be stylish/different which works for some of the scenes but definitely not for others. my biggest gripe is the lack of action...a movie about the watchers of light and dark forces should have some cool action instead of a scene where some guy in sunglasses gets his ass kicked and then stabbed with scissors as the action highlight of the film.
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WTF, man? First the fawning over the Weinsteins now this sanctimonious bullshit? Jesus, this site is losing any remnant of credibility fast.
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i just have to say that i do usually see eye to eye with harry, especially with his taste for foreign films, but this one honestly just doesn't live up to the hype.
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WTF? That's the worst product placement I've ever seen. As for the film? Hate to be repetitive, but it was good, but not great. Nicely shot, in a geek baiting way, but the story wasn't anything I haven't seen before in a myriad of other flicks. The FX were pretty good for a foreign flick though, I guess that's where all the Nescafe money went.......
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... They ripped off Toy Story! Is that Jon Voight? I didn't know Russians could afford special effects. Hmm... creepy girl in a slip walking in traffic?... or just a Moscow crack ho? Requisite kid with mysterious powers. Blood-vessel kid? Were-tiger, original... werewolves gotten too hacky. Man... I wish I had a pet crow!
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how a good editor can make even the worst of films look great? I am sorry, but I saw an imported DVD of this film about 4 months ago and was bored to tears. It had great special effects, but for they were used for things that didn't make sense (ie, a screw falling off of a plane, down a chimney, and into a pot of food cooking in the kitchen of one of the characters.) THe fights would have been good, if they were actually fights, instead of watching the main character get his ass handed to him by a random vampire holding a pair of scissors, then only being able to get away because he gets in a lucky hit in to save his life. I don't want to dissapoint those of you who are really anticipating this film (as I was), but through most of the movie, my friends and I were completely baffled (and bored) by what was happening. Some of this was caused by the horrible traslation on the DVD. Its hard to get the point of a film when you can only understand about 2/3 of what everyone is talking about. Unfortunately, most of the problem is the film itself, it is shot well (the were creature in the first 10 minutes is awesome), and has a great premise, but that is it. Johnny Mnemonic had a good premise and good special effects, and look at how legendary it is now. Sad as this is, Johnny was better than the "legendary" Nightwatch.
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Apr 09, 2005 4:00:21 AM CDT
"(ie, a screw falling off of a plane, down a chimney, and into a
by grando
It was a cup of Nescafe actually. And yes, as cool as that bit was, why bother? There's 2 minutes you could have shaved of the flick no bother.
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I totally understand. And it is not just the subtitles that cause people to be baffled - I know many russian speaking people (tends to be older crowd who has not read the book nor care to) who felt the same way. The movie does not bother to explain most things and unless you've read the book many things are very confusing. Unfortunately in addition to not explaining things they take some serious liberties with the story, so even when you've read the book, some things are annoying. For example that "fight" scene you mention is not supposed to be much of one - In the book all registered "dark ones" have a special seal on them which destroys them when triggered by NightWatch (vice versa with "light ones" and DayWatch) - which is how he gets to fairly easily kill the vampire (he misses the girl because she runs off and she is not registered). But in absence of that seal, it would make sense for him to get his ass kicked if it WAS an actuall fight. He is a relatively low power mage and is a computer programmer for the watch and not at all a field operative. He was doing a training rotation in the field (officially because they were short staffed, but really because the heads of both Watches are playing an intricate chess game and he was used as a pond.) I am guessing they decided to seriously hurt him to show the great power that his boss has. Another thing that was somewhat confusing and annoying is the driving. There is nothing particularly special about their vehicles, just that powerful enough mages are capable of seeing lines of probability and thus drive very fast safely. I am not sure what that business with little nitro jets coming out the tail pipe was about. Part of me hopes that the big deal about subtitles is the addition of a narrator back story - comic book style - this may go a long way towards making the movie a lot more watchable. As a thing of Nescafe, I saw somewhere a quote from the director saying that the hideous product placement was a jab at american cinema - he seemed most amused by it.
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yup, the little things, like flames shooting out of the van's exhaust and having it do a cartwheel just looked plain cheesy and just made it seem like they're trying too hard to make the movie cool. the 13 flashbacks to the lady on the train got pretty annoying too.
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Well, at least were all in agreement. It's the Russian equivalent of Congo or Sphere, only with vampires.
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Apr 11, 2005 6:40:37 AM CDT
You can always tell which TalkBackers were considering downloadi
by ribbons
"You got no fucking right, Knowles" (Ooooh, last name territory), etc., etc.
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