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What I've been watching
Nov. 18th, 2008 07:08 amJ. and I recently saw both "Night Watch" and "Day Watch" via the "Watch Now" feature on netflix. I recommend them.
They're part vampire flick, part supernatural thriller, but with a weird Russian twist. The cast is all unknowns (in America, anyway), though they're based on novels that have some cult following in the U.S. They're all in Russian, with subtitles, but they do fun things with the subtitles, like turning them colors, making them vibrate, and so on. Aside from the whole "Battle of the light against the dark," it doesn't feel familiar and formulaic to me, probably because I'm less familiar with the myths and legends they draw from.
They're making the next in the series, "Twilight Watch," for 2009, but they're filming in English. I'm just assuming they'll fuck up all the things I liked about the first two.
They're part vampire flick, part supernatural thriller, but with a weird Russian twist. The cast is all unknowns (in America, anyway), though they're based on novels that have some cult following in the U.S. They're all in Russian, with subtitles, but they do fun things with the subtitles, like turning them colors, making them vibrate, and so on. Aside from the whole "Battle of the light against the dark," it doesn't feel familiar and formulaic to me, probably because I'm less familiar with the myths and legends they draw from.
They're making the next in the series, "Twilight Watch," for 2009, but they're filming in English. I'm just assuming they'll fuck up all the things I liked about the first two.
