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Title: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 11, 2006, 11:13:30 PM: I vote the former. Although, I really think it just gets going when it ends. I heard FOX Searchlight gave them some more cash for the sequels, so hopefully they'll have the budget to match the ambition. If anything, that's the fault here -- too ambitious. That said, there's some amazing camerawork for a foriegn film and the concept is golden. If they can flesh it out in the next two installments, I'll be psyched!
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 11, 2006, 11:29:54 PM: I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: heavy liquid on August 11, 2006, 11:37:34 PM: I liked it. A lot.

Especially the futuristic subtitiles that dissolved into the water and moved all over the place on screen. Awesome.

The movie has it's problems, but I'd rather watch a move that takes a few risks and stumbles a bit because of it, than watch a movie that plays it safe. I would rate the movie a B+
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 11, 2006, 11:41:45 PM: I heard that Day Watch is fantastic from those who saw it earlier this year. What the fuck is taking FOX so long with the release over here?
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: heavy liquid on August 11, 2006, 11:47:41 PM: Quote from: Willco on August 11, 2006, 11:41:45 PM
I heard that Day Watch is fantastic from those who saw it earlier this year. What the fuck is taking FOX so long with the release over here?

I saw a boot of Day Watch earlier this year. Three times. I HATED it at first, and then grew to like it a lot. It's a LOT different in tone than the first movie. As in the whole tone. WAY different.
I honestly didn't LIKE it until my third time through. I haven't read any of the novels, though. But the first two films have different sensibilities, and take a bit for the viewer to adapt to it.

I'm really interested in seeing how FOX treats the sequel (theatre release?) and how the DVD is. IF it releases it.
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 12, 2006, 12:56:04 AM: I'd be surprised if they didn't. It has a following over here and they've dumped money in it. From the trailer, it looked more like a sexy thriller set in a gothic underworld than the kind of epic nature of Night Watch. I'm totally down for that, though.
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: BlueTsunami on August 12, 2006, 01:14:20 AM: I've seen the trailer at various places and was intrigued by it but haven't seen it. When it came out I actually actively looked for a theator in which it was playing and didn't find one close by. I really wanted to see it in a theater too. Ah well
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: Solo on August 12, 2006, 06:52:46 AM: Mediocre. I didn't hate it, nor did I love it, and I won't remember it a year from now.
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: morphix on August 12, 2006, 06:54:48 AM: I liked it, nothing amazing but I'd sit through another.
Title: Re: Night Watch - Intriguing foriegn epic or mediocre Matrix wannabe?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 12, 2006, 01:54:32 PM: It was too weird for me to enjoy, not that funny ha ha Freddy Got Fingered weird, but tht 'WTF' weird.