Anyone see these? Or read the books? I just saw the movies for the 1st time...

It's like White Wolf...if White Wolf didn't hurt my brain!

Quote from: dsivisAnyone see these? Or read the books? I just saw the movies for the 1st time...

I've seen both movies, and I love them. I'm reading the first novel now. Great stuff.

Here's a funny story. The scene in Day Watch where that girl drives a car up the side of a building? The building in question is a hotel called Cosmos. I was in Moscow, talking to this girl about the Day Watch trailer, which had just come out in the states, and she laughed when I brought up that scene. "This is that building!" she said. "This, the Cosmos, is the hotel in the movie!"

Imagine my surprise.

I didn't like the movies. Felt cheesy and awkwardly over-the-top to me.

Didn't know there were books.

I've only seen Nightwatch so far. I liked it, though I thought there was too little character development on most of the characters.

I heard daywatch wasn't as good, but then the guys that said that were the snooty pretentious types...

Saw Night Watch.  Felt quite Russian all right.  Haven't seen Day Watch yet.

Quote from: dsivisAnyone see these? Or read the books? I just saw the movies for the 1st time...

I watched both movies and read the first book. I liked the movies better.

Seanchai

Is it just me, or are these movies the WoD without the unjustified angst? (Because I think Anton's angst is justified.)

I loved both movies for their mix of silliness but also non-western cliche fantasy vibe, although the pseudo lesbian body swap shower scene set in a shampoo advert tropical island did make me laugh out loud in DayWatch.

Am reading the 2nd of the books now which is ok. Theres a lot of exposition but done in quite a readable way but also takes up a lot of the story (indeed sometimes the back story is the story).

Haven't seen Daywatch on DvD yet so don't know if they carry it through but if you have Nighwatch do watch it in Russian with the subtitles - they use them as part of the scene in ways thats very comic booky (when the vampire is calling the boy in the first bits, the words appear as the blood from his nose and in a well done way).

Quote from: NiallSI loved both movies for their mix of silliness but also non-western cliche fantasy vibe, although the pseudo lesbian body swap shower scene set in a shampoo advert tropical island did make me laugh out loud in DayWatch.

Yeah, I was snickering inappropriately too.

I've seen both Movies, I'm interested in the book trilogy.

Nightwatch is great. I enjoyed it immensely.

Daywatch was a fun movie, but not as good as Nightwatch.

There's continuity problems and some other sloppy directing/writing in both movies, but if those things don't bother you so much...they're a couple of cool movies!

Quote from: KrakaJakI've seen both Movies, I'm interested in the book trilogy.

Actually, it's a tetralogy. The fourth book, Last Watch, is going to be released in English later this year (October, I think).

Strangely, the third movie in the trilogy of films is going to be released in English, not Russian. Go figure. I'm a little disappointed.

Yeah...and have an all american cast.

The only thing that will rescue that indy cah-in will be if it's directed by Uwe Boll!