Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)

[prog]

You must see this. Unless you harbor a deep loathing for all possible forms of modern-setting fantasy, I guess.

OK, some bullet points:

* Magic of the sort I like to see in fantasy -- expensive, hurtful and weird. (Coz if it isn't, why don't that world's people use it all the time, eh?) And brilliantly depicted, too.

* They decided to have fun with the subtitles, and it actually works.

* Among one character's powers is the ability to play prophetic video games.

* The most visceral fun I've had in a movie theater since I don't-know-when.

Now go. Fly, my children

Comments

[prog.livejournal.com]

Hmm... it's more a crazy adventure-fantasy than a horror movie, but it does contain vampires and lycanthropes making socially maladaptive decisions. So it has many "Boo!" moments and a fair amount of LOTR-style combat, but isn't terribly gory, and I was not so much tensed as enthrallled.

Though I imagine that some people would point at certain scenes and say "You call that 'not terribly gory' ?!" YMMV.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Though I imagine that some people would point at certain scenes and say "You call that 'not terribly gory' ?!"

Yup.

But I agree, overall it was not gory. I'm not really sure what I think overall. Liked it mostly but at the same time I liked all the different styles of stuff that were done both storywise and cinematicawise[1] I wasn't sure that smattering all of them together in the same movie made for good art. It felt very, um, "busy" I guess.

But, just so you know, you're mention of this movie is why I went to see it; well that and that it was Russian, which I thought would appeal to R, whom I invited along.

[1] Loved that dropping rivet. And yeah, the prophetic videogame. Among other things