Comments on: Night Watch http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/23/night-watch/ the funk is its own reward Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:53:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jürgen http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/23/night-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-7769 Jürgen Thu, 24 May 2007 18:11:17 +0000 http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/23/night-watch/#comment-7769 I thought it was worse than that. My jaw never dropped once, and I wouldn't recommend Nochnoy Dozor to anyone on drugs or sober. Maybe goths on PCP, I dunno. You're right that the subtitles are sort-of interesting, and they're taking that idea even further in the sequel. At least the title is fun to say: Nochnoy Dozor! Nochnoy Dozor! NOCHNOY DOZOR! I thought it was worse than that. My jaw never dropped once, and I wouldn’t recommend Nochnoy Dozor to anyone on drugs or sober. Maybe goths on PCP, I dunno. You’re right that the subtitles are sort-of interesting, and they’re taking that idea even further in the sequel. At least the title is fun to say: Nochnoy Dozor! Nochnoy Dozor! NOCHNOY DOZOR!

]]> By: jhoffman http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/23/night-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-7757 jhoffman Thu, 24 May 2007 12:59:16 +0000 http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/23/night-watch/#comment-7757 My thoughts were pretty similar: Night Watch (2006), Timur Bekmambetov, D Jordan | Jordan Hoffman's Movie Journal | Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 edit As if we needed more proof: cool special effects are fun to watch for a while, but if you don’t have an original or interesting story to tell, you have no movie. And even if the first half-hour is jaw-dropping, the remaining three half-hours simply hurt your ass. There is only one truly neato concept in “Night Watch,” but it hit me mid-way through that it is stolen from “Lord of the Rings” (how is entering “The Gloom” not the same as when Frodo puts on the Ring?) Some groovy shots, yeah — I certainly recommend this to anyone on drugs who wants to see cool images. And props must go out to whomever decided that the English subtitles should move around the screen, fade in and out, turn red, change size, etc. (I think using subtitles as a quasi-diagetic graphic element is basically without precedent.) But I won’t be lining up for the sequels. My thoughts were pretty similar:

Night Watch (2006), Timur Bekmambetov, D
Jordan | Jordan Hoffman’s Movie Journal | Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 edit
As if we needed more proof: cool special effects are fun to watch for a while, but if you don’t have an original or interesting story to tell, you have no movie. And even if the first half-hour is jaw-dropping, the remaining three half-hours simply hurt your ass. There is only one truly neato concept in “Night Watch,” but it hit me mid-way through that it is stolen from “Lord of the Rings” (how is entering “The Gloom” not the same as when Frodo puts on the Ring?) Some groovy shots, yeah — I certainly recommend this to anyone on drugs who wants to see cool images. And props must go out to whomever decided that the English subtitles should move around the screen, fade in and out, turn red, change size, etc. (I think using subtitles as a quasi-diagetic graphic element is basically without precedent.) But I won’t be lining up for the sequels.

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