If you saw the silly Russian action/fantasy/horror movie Night Watch, you will have noticed that the single most creative aspect of it was the subtitles. They are integrated into the visual aspect of the movie: subtitles change colour, move around the frame, sometimes go behind objects in frame, and once in a while are battered around the screen by explosions or wind.
Very clever and creative, and easily my favourite thing about the movie.
On the DVD, the subtitles are... unexciting. They're the same bog-standard boring font subtitles you see on every other movie. Suddenly Night Watch is even more like a typical piece-of-shit Hollywood blockbuster.
My advice is BOYCOTT THIS PIECE OF CRAP! Honestly, how cheap and penny-pinching can you get?! Especially as the original subtitles are reportedly on review copies of the DVD - just not on the copies you can rent or buy!
Posted by pearce at August 22, 2006 3:29 PMYeah I know what you mean - the ones we get are the international version I believe which don't include the sub-titles.
As far as the movie goes I actually enjoyed it - far more gritty than most holiwood supernatural stuff and also far less "black" vs "white" type situations...
Kinda fun, would hardly call it groundbreaking though...
On a side note I have some really interesting conversations with one of the other smokers in the building who works for the Office of Films and Literature Classification... she has through and review all the material on DVDs coming into NZ - I could sorta see you doing that job big daddy P!
Posted by: Scott C at August 22, 2006 4:48 PMwatched it on the plane recently, so missed any spectacle it had. I thought some good atmospheric scenes and ideas, but couldn't get over the fact both the premise and the plot were incomprehensible nonsense.
But I the subtitles were definitely the best thing, I wondered why noone has ever thought of that before - treating them as a part of the movie rather than a hindrence.
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