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21-10-2005 07:53
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=> Запостил на американских форумах по Н.Д. :
"Let's think of this more like a critique review than a comment. But
everything that is criticized is commented anyway, so here it goes.
I know Russian and I first watched Nochnoi Dozor on my VHS (unlicensed
version, of course) in 2004. Before I was told by all of my surrounding
that this movie simply "sucked" in both making and plot. Not to be a
yes-man, I watched it by myself... And was quite outraged. I mean, this
is just unacceptable: Russians trying to copy Hollywood and then giving
it not only to their own public, but also to the U.S., which comes
pretty much to something Hollywood would make, except in Russian
wrapping! The movie starts with a guy who comes to an old witch because
of broken love. Markova, who played the witch, was told in advance that
it'd be a satirical comedy and that she must play "posh", what in face
she did. But it was serious for Habensky, he played the main role. The
final result gave a ridiculous scene in a Moscovian apartment that
winds up with some kind of highly rendered spider-doll-thing tickling
around and some tiger-lady jumping out of nowhere, like in a dream.
Then we discover that Anton, for some strange reason, becoming an
"Other" (I'd name them "Outers", "Others" is just a very bad
translation from Russian) and sorta dying. Tvelwe years later, this guy
wakes up in a total trash and tells the viewer that now his job
consists of "chasing after some other bad evil dudes, because evil
itself is very bad" - as if he had nothing better to do in his life.
More to that, this kind of morale seems too "fairy tale" for real life
anyway, so why creating real world with real characters, huh? Then we
see Zolotuhin, who plays the vampire father. Yes, why is he chewing raw
meat? I mean, what's the point? It just showed me a hungry man, what
did the director try to show? More to that, Zolotuhin was a great (if
not THE greatest) actor back in the 1970-ies, in URSS times. He quit
his career in 2001, he was 60 and something. In 2004, he suddenly
returns to business, not to play, but only to get paid millions in cash
because of doing something disgusting in the movie. All in all, I mean
to say that Zolotuhin played Kostia's dad only cause nobody else
accepted this role (which isn't hard to understand why). The subway.
Just gross. Habensky stands there as if he's about to puke and then, we
see his harassing Egor with his hand - kinda anatomy cut, yeah. Once
again, what was the point of him being full rude to the other guy (in
Russian version, it roughly translates as "I'll bite your f-king ear
off!") - isn't he the Light? Isn't Anton the good one, huh? The barber
shop scene is even worse. Two freaky vampires decide to go on a rampage
and violate the kid for no reason and get butted by Anton (yes, once
again it was oh so evident...). In the book, there is no barber shop,
no hardcore action and it happens during the night. I mean, just read
the book to see how the scene was badly mangled by Timur. Once again,
some "special" effects reincarnating magic (didn't we get enough of
this crap in Harry Potter?) - digital wonders. Yeah, the blood-barf by
the subway entrance is also Timur's pointless intervention. At least,
Lukianenko hasn't gone THAT low! Afterwards, we see some more digital
intervention, like an owl turning into a woman, a 360 degree truck
rotation, "manually" lit light bulbs, etc. etc. In one word, more of
useless eye candy junk with absolutely no relation to the main plot.
Normally, everyone who watched the movie so far won't go away, this is
the point where all the fed up viewers just get enough of it. I however,
watched until the end, although sometimes I wanted to throw something
at my TV, or, more seriously, just f.f. the scene. As I may remember (I
clearly ain't a fan of this series), there is some fuss with the
"damned virgin", who damned herself and the spell worked because she's
an "Other". Destiny lines is a good idea, aside the fact that is was
completely ripped off by Timur from the early 90-ies movies like "Back
To The Future" and so on. But the scene in a family apartment with the
"frozen" family is once again useless, as it the next scene with
Zavulon. Everything that follows it just to skip, honestly (especially
the scene with rapid crows and airplane clip falling down, full of
pathos). Which gets us pretty much to the scene on the roof, where,
according to Habensky's comment, everyone drank a lot of vodka and the
actors just did a kind of drunk synergetic hullabaloo a la laser
beams from SW series. This "helter-skelter" ends with Egor being
kidnapped, I think (and his mom dies too, for being such a bad girl 12
years ago =) ). I mostly laughed at the scene where Zavulon takes out
his spine like a Zerg for Starcraft, and it turns out to be a sword.
This wasn't in the book either - no wonder, who'd carry around a
freaking sword in his spine? It's simply silly. It's one of those
moments when you watch the scene and question yourself: "How much
stupider can it get?" and right away you get the answer: "Ok, here we
go..." The movie ends on a bright tune, however, the rap during credits
just turns you inside out. Some renegade group of wannabe rappers
composed something to break the bareness during credits, but from my
point of view, it ridiculed the whole movie. It sounds as if they were
making fun of it - who'd be suicidal enough to put a blasting of his
"masterpiece" into it?..
All in all, I gave this nonsense 3 out of 10. One point for making an
effort by trying to at least shoot something. Another one for the actor
who, despite all the disgust of the movie themes and the low morale,
made their jobs well. And the final point for promoting it to the U.S.
nation, which is the biggest effort for something like Night Watch to
be watched somewhere like in the Big Apple (selling Americans something
that is already theirs by definition really deserves an award: the Best
Plagiat Award, if there'd be one.) It doesn't deserve more than 3
points and it never will, as long as it's not based on the Night Watch
book. Because making a good movie out of a book that already is below
average by definition, must be an act of gods, seriously. Personal
rating: if you liked this movie, you should see things like
Shayamalan's "Village" and "Eight Legged Freaks" - I believe you'll
like them at first sight! And if you still have some brains left to
think about what you just saw, then maybe you should turn to movies
like "Blade" - they aren't worth more than 6 - 7 out of 10, IMHO, but
comparing to "Nochnoi dozor" isn't "Night and Day."
P.S. To all those viewers who profane Russians for not liking this hunk
of exhuberation: the Night Watch rating didn't get high in Moscow because
viewers liked it. It got high because Timur bribed all the critics
there is, and bribes are still and, alas, yet the best method of living
in Russia, hell it is. As a matter of fact, 75% of a 200 viewers sample
said it was "disgusting" and at same time we have "60% of viewers that
enjoyed the movie and appreciated it". Excuse me, Mr. Putin, but 75 +
60 doesn't make 100, I believe. Or it does now?"
Теперь буду сидеть и ждать неадекватной реакции =)
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Дело тут даже не в том, что ОНО всё-таки вышло в кино на чужом материке - вы почитайте коменты к фильму. Я золливался горькими слезами! :D
=> Запостил на американских форумах по Н.Д. :
"Let's think of this more like a critique review than a comment. But
everything that is criticized is commented anyway, so here it goes.
I know Russian and I first watched Nochnoi Dozor on my VHS (unlicensed
version, of course) in 2004. Before I was told by all of my surrounding
that this movie simply "sucked" in both making and plot. Not to be a
yes-man, I watched it by myself... And was quite outraged. I mean, this
is just unacceptable: Russians trying to copy Hollywood and then giving
it not only to their own public, but also to the U.S., which comes
pretty much to something Hollywood would make, except in Russian
wrapping! The movie starts with a guy who comes to an old witch because
of broken love. Markova, who played the witch, was told in advance that
it'd be a satirical comedy and that she must play "posh", what in face
she did. But it was serious for Habensky, he played the main role. The
final result gave a ridiculous scene in a Moscovian apartment that
winds up with some kind of highly rendered spider-doll-thing tickling
around and some tiger-lady jumping out of nowhere, like in a dream.
Then we discover that Anton, for some strange reason, becoming an
"Other" (I'd name them "Outers", "Others" is just a very bad
translation from Russian) and sorta dying. Tvelwe years later, this guy
wakes up in a total trash and tells the viewer that now his job
consists of "chasing after some other bad evil dudes, because evil
itself is very bad" - as if he had nothing better to do in his life.
More to that, this kind of morale seems too "fairy tale" for real life
anyway, so why creating real world with real characters, huh? Then we
see Zolotuhin, who plays the vampire father. Yes, why is he chewing raw
meat? I mean, what's the point? It just showed me a hungry man, what
did the director try to show? More to that, Zolotuhin was a great (if
not THE greatest) actor back in the 1970-ies, in URSS times. He quit
his career in 2001, he was 60 and something. In 2004, he suddenly
returns to business, not to play, but only to get paid millions in cash
because of doing something disgusting in the movie. All in all, I mean
to say that Zolotuhin played Kostia's dad only cause nobody else
accepted this role (which isn't hard to understand why). The subway.
Just gross. Habensky stands there as if he's about to puke and then, we
see his harassing Egor with his hand - kinda anatomy cut, yeah. Once
again, what was the point of him being full rude to the other guy (in
Russian version, it roughly translates as "I'll bite your f-king ear
off!") - isn't he the Light? Isn't Anton the good one, huh? The barber
shop scene is even worse. Two freaky vampires decide to go on a rampage
and violate the kid for no reason and get butted by Anton (yes, once
again it was oh so evident...). In the book, there is no barber shop,
no hardcore action and it happens during the night. I mean, just read
the book to see how the scene was badly mangled by Timur. Once again,
some "special" effects reincarnating magic (didn't we get enough of
this crap in Harry Potter?) - digital wonders. Yeah, the blood-barf by
the subway entrance is also Timur's pointless intervention. At least,
Lukianenko hasn't gone THAT low! Afterwards, we see some more digital
intervention, like an owl turning into a woman, a 360 degree truck
rotation, "manually" lit light bulbs, etc. etc. In one word, more of
useless eye candy junk with absolutely no relation to the main plot.
Normally, everyone who watched the movie so far won't go away, this is
the point where all the fed up viewers just get enough of it. I however,
watched until the end, although sometimes I wanted to throw something
at my TV, or, more seriously, just f.f. the scene. As I may remember (I
clearly ain't a fan of this series), there is some fuss with the
"damned virgin", who damned herself and the spell worked because she's
an "Other". Destiny lines is a good idea, aside the fact that is was
completely ripped off by Timur from the early 90-ies movies like "Back
To The Future" and so on. But the scene in a family apartment with the
"frozen" family is once again useless, as it the next scene with
Zavulon. Everything that follows it just to skip, honestly (especially
the scene with rapid crows and airplane clip falling down, full of
pathos). Which gets us pretty much to the scene on the roof, where,
according to Habensky's comment, everyone drank a lot of vodka and the
actors just did a kind of drunk synergetic hullabaloo a la laser
beams from SW series. This "helter-skelter" ends with Egor being
kidnapped, I think (and his mom dies too, for being such a bad girl 12
years ago =) ). I mostly laughed at the scene where Zavulon takes out
his spine like a Zerg for Starcraft, and it turns out to be a sword.
This wasn't in the book either - no wonder, who'd carry around a
freaking sword in his spine? It's simply silly. It's one of those
moments when you watch the scene and question yourself: "How much
stupider can it get?" and right away you get the answer: "Ok, here we
go..." The movie ends on a bright tune, however, the rap during credits
just turns you inside out. Some renegade group of wannabe rappers
composed something to break the bareness during credits, but from my
point of view, it ridiculed the whole movie. It sounds as if they were
making fun of it - who'd be suicidal enough to put a blasting of his
"masterpiece" into it?..
All in all, I gave this nonsense 3 out of 10. One point for making an
effort by trying to at least shoot something. Another one for the actor
who, despite all the disgust of the movie themes and the low morale,
made their jobs well. And the final point for promoting it to the U.S.
nation, which is the biggest effort for something like Night Watch to
be watched somewhere like in the Big Apple (selling Americans something
that is already theirs by definition really deserves an award: the Best
Plagiat Award, if there'd be one.) It doesn't deserve more than 3
points and it never will, as long as it's not based on the Night Watch
book. Because making a good movie out of a book that already is below
average by definition, must be an act of gods, seriously. Personal
rating: if you liked this movie, you should see things like
Shayamalan's "Village" and "Eight Legged Freaks" - I believe you'll
like them at first sight! And if you still have some brains left to
think about what you just saw, then maybe you should turn to movies
like "Blade" - they aren't worth more than 6 - 7 out of 10, IMHO, but
comparing to "Nochnoi dozor" isn't "Night and Day."
P.S. To all those viewers who profane Russians for not liking this hunk
of exhuberation: the Night Watch rating didn't get high in Moscow because
viewers liked it. It got high because Timur bribed all the critics
there is, and bribes are still and, alas, yet the best method of living
in Russia, hell it is. As a matter of fact, 75% of a 200 viewers sample
said it was "disgusting" and at same time we have "60% of viewers that
enjoyed the movie and appreciated it". Excuse me, Mr. Putin, but 75 +
60 doesn't make 100, I believe. Or it does now?"
Теперь буду сидеть и ждать неадекватной реакции =)
Комментарии (2):
Э... эммм... а на русский язык ты не мог бы нам здесь перевести?
;)
;)
Александр_Вайт
22-10-2005-23:07
удалить
Не-а. Лучше ты английский учи =)
На самом деле там и переводить-то нечего. Обычный пасквиль с кучей ошибок, как грамматических, так и синтаксических (я по пьянке писал). Простая провокация, на кот., кстати, на форумах уже многие поддались. Ну а про Н.Д. на русском я, помнится, ещё год назад конкретно выложил свою точку зрения в "Станиславе". Повторяться не охота, главное и так понятно: фильм = отстой, независимо от языка и актёров.
На самом деле там и переводить-то нечего. Обычный пасквиль с кучей ошибок, как грамматических, так и синтаксических (я по пьянке писал). Простая провокация, на кот., кстати, на форумах уже многие поддались. Ну а про Н.Д. на русском я, помнится, ещё год назад конкретно выложил свою точку зрения в "Станиславе". Повторяться не охота, главное и так понятно: фильм = отстой, независимо от языка и актёров.
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