[Movie] Day Watch

[ghost-angel]

Because I'm lazy I'm not bothering to find the original thread that had the discussion on Night Watch and Day Watch.

Day Watch (sequal to Night Watch) will be out in the US in June 1 (couldn't find if it was a national release or selected theaters).

Trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/daywatch/trailera/)

Night Watch is an Urban Fantasy movie par excellence, Day Watch appears it will continue to deliver.

[Killer Shrike]

Because I'm lazy I'm not bothering to find the original thread that had the discussion on Night Watch and Day Watch.

Day Watch (sequal to Night Watch) will be out in the US in June 1 (couldn't find if it was a national release or selected theaters).

Trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/daywatch/trailera/)

Night Watch is an Urban Fantasy movie par excellence, Day Watch appears it will continue to deliver.

awesome!

[Curufea]

It is good. I thought it was better than the first.

[RPMiller]

I concur with Curufea, based on what I see in the trailer this is going to be much better than Night Watch.

[RPMiller]

If you missed Night Watch you can see it here (http://content.foxsearchlight.com/videos/node/1512)in 2.5 minutes!

[ghost-angel]

The shot in the trailer with the car on the building - right there that out cooled any SFX the matrix had to throw at you.

One of the things I like about Night Watch (and the 2.5 minutes I've seen of Day Watch) is that you can see normal people around them with a kind of WTF look as really bizarre things go on (in the trailer the couple just standing there when the bus is stopped...)

And the hereoes aren't all superfit supermodels in skintight armor. People who haven't shaved in three days with paunches and shabby clothes can save the world too (or destroy it...)

[phookz]

I've seen the preview for this in the theater and thought it looked very cool. I had never heard of Night Watch before, so I guess I need to Netflix that before I see this.

[RPMiller]

My wife and I watched Night Watch late at night. I would recommend that you make sure you are awake and alert when you watch it because it requires some brain power to follow along. I think I'm going to have to NetFlix it again as well and rewatch it before I see this one. From what I understand this is a 3 part series.

[ghost-angel]

My wife and I watched Night Watch late at night. I would recommend that you make sure you are awake and alert when you watch it because it requires some brain power to follow along. I think I'm going to have to NetFlix it again as well and rewatch it before I see this one. From what I understand this is a 3 part series.

Yes, it is.

The first two movies actually cover the first book.

[Vestnik]

I caught it on DVD, didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I did really like the opening bit with Tamerlane though.

The director is from Kazakhstan. Take that, Borat! :)

[jaws]

Liked it quite a bit. All the moving around of the camera might make you dizzy though. Effects are great! The story is good, especially how they go about politicking between good an evil, I think it's funny in weird sort of way.

However make sure you have seen night watch first or you will not understand a lot of what is happening. Especially at the end. I cant waight for twilight or what ever #3 is going to be called.

[jtelson]

It only opened in limited release in the US this weekend but the Mrs and I are itching to see it. The third novel is called Dusk Watch and the fourth Final Watch although I only ever hear the movies discussed as a trilogy.

[jaws]

It only opened in limited release in the US this weekend but the Mrs and I are itching to see it. The third novel is called Dusk Watch and the fourth Final Watch although I only ever hear the movies discussed as a trilogy.

UH:confused:! I heard it was a trilogy too. Any reference you can point me to for the info on the other 2 movies?

[jtelson]

Wiki Info about the novels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_Watch_%28novel%29

and the movies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daywatch

[ghost-angel]

Just got back from a Preview Showing of Day Watch (it opens in a whopping 1 theater here on Friday).

I thought it was awesome really.

[Curufea]

It certainly wins the award for "most impressive entrance ever" - twice :)

[ghost-angel]

And coolest way to level a city.

[Vestnik]

Just out of curiosity, how successful is this movie and how much exposure is it getting in the States/UK?

(There are some pretty funny Russian inside jokes in the film -- for instance, when the Day Watch is calling up lists of, I think it was, Others they were monitoring on the computer, the goggle-eyed guy who pops up on the screen is Boris Moiseev*, who is an, um, flamboyantly gay Russian pop singer who refers to himself as a "child of sin.").)

*This guy: http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/entertainment/detail.php?ID=3587

[teh bunneh]

Just got back from a Preview Showing of Day Watch (it opens in a whopping 1 theater here on Friday).

Which theater?

Bill.
(Want to see!)

[jaws]

Its going to be in all the major theaters here in Cancun Mexico. There is really only ONE big movie chain and it is going to ave it in all of its theaters.

I didn't think it would make it as Night watch never did.

[Vestnik]

Its going to be in all the major theaters here in Cancun Mexico. There is really only ONE big movie chain and it is going to ave it in all of its theaters.

I didn't think it would make it as Night watch never did.

There's a computer game based on DW and probably one on NW as well. I'd be interested in finding out if it ever gets marketed outside the FSU.

[ghost-angel]

Which theater?

Bill.
(Want to see!)

The Mayan (1st and Broadway).

Lemme know if you guys come down to see it. I'd love to go again at a more comfortable theater.

The preview showing was at the Esquire, which if you've never been is some ancient two screen whose biggest disadvantage is no sloped floor so the audience kept ducking around each other to read the subtitles. And the seats suck.

[jtelson]

Still no sign of it in the Albany area, sigh, may end up seeing on DvD.

[jaws]

There's a computer game based on DW and probably one on NW as well. I'd be interested in finding out if it ever gets marketed outside the FSU.

I saw a friend playing a terribly dubbed version of DW game. Don't know how he got it though. Also crashed a lot so it was probably a ripoff.

[Vestnik]

I saw a friend playing a terribly dubbed version of DW game. Don't know how he got it though. Also crashed a lot so it was probably a ripoff.

Mexico's got the same mass IP privacy problems as Russia does, doesn't it? My almost certainly pirated copy of A Bard's Tale is totally unplayable, it crashes so often.

[Vestnik]

I picked up the third book in the series, Sumerechnyi Dozor (Twilight Watch I guess it would be in Englush translation), at a bookshop here in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), wher I'm spending this week. It's really good, at least the first 40 pages or so. I'm not going to spoil anything for anybody, but it has an interesting pulpy twist regarding the secrecy of the Watches.

Aha, and I see on amazon.com that it's already avaliable in English translation! Cool.

[eternal_sage]

this looks totally awesome (me being a Mage: the Awakening fanboy and all) and much cooler than the other Urban Fantasy movie thats been out recently, the Covenant (although i thought that was decent, but i also liked Underworld I and II, not as fine cinema, mind, just a fun watch).