Dnevnoy dozor
Jun. 17th, 2007 12:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhiaAh, Day Watch.
I wish everyone was as devoted to making their subtitles so awesome! Clearly, they know most of their audience will not understand Russian. I know exactly enough to recognize root words, and case endings (but not enough to know how they go together). I like having subtitles that interact with the rest of the screen. (Making sure you don't miss the images for all the speedreading.)
I wasn't entirely pleased with the plot resolution, and, I forget how tame American film can seem after a good old crazy insane foreign film. But, dude! I stayed at the Cosmos Hotel!
Somewhere back in Momville there's bad prints (from one of those short-lived disc-cameras) of all the pictures I took of that giant op-art sculpture hanging in the lobby, probably drunk (No Drinking Age? Awesome! Communism Rocks!), possibly during the abortive toga party we tried to have there. (The top-sheet was a giant, blanket-filled pillowcase, something I would later learn was a duvet cover. I'll sum up by saying it made for a crappy toga, and that I am ancient, for this was before Glasnost. I'm not sure who was more mortified, the Soviet hotel staff or our chaperones.)
Anyway, KOCMOC is featured prominently in the film, and, well, I found that more than a little nifty. Also, the costumes are stellar. It's hard work keeping a vampire-slash-superhero protagonist in such dorky sweaters. ("Anton? You're not going to go save the world in THAT?")
zarf tells us that the movies have nearly completely diverged from the books. (once I'm done borrowing all his Temeraire books, I'll hit him up for *gasp* Russian Lit.)
I wish everyone was as devoted to making their subtitles so awesome! Clearly, they know most of their audience will not understand Russian. I know exactly enough to recognize root words, and case endings (but not enough to know how they go together). I like having subtitles that interact with the rest of the screen. (Making sure you don't miss the images for all the speedreading.)
I wasn't entirely pleased with the plot resolution, and, I forget how tame American film can seem after a good old crazy insane foreign film. But, dude! I stayed at the Cosmos Hotel!
Somewhere back in Momville there's bad prints (from one of those short-lived disc-cameras) of all the pictures I took of that giant op-art sculpture hanging in the lobby, probably drunk (No Drinking Age? Awesome! Communism Rocks!), possibly during the abortive toga party we tried to have there. (The top-sheet was a giant, blanket-filled pillowcase, something I would later learn was a duvet cover. I'll sum up by saying it made for a crappy toga, and that I am ancient, for this was before Glasnost. I'm not sure who was more mortified, the Soviet hotel staff or our chaperones.)
Anyway, KOCMOC is featured prominently in the film, and, well, I found that more than a little nifty. Also, the costumes are stellar. It's hard work keeping a vampire-slash-superhero protagonist in such dorky sweaters. ("Anton? You're not going to go save the world in THAT?")
zarf tells us that the movies have nearly completely diverged from the books. (once I'm done borrowing all his Temeraire books, I'll hit him up for *gasp* Russian Lit.)
