Why so many haters?

it is uneccesarily convoluted, though. the first one is a lot better and would have worked just fine without a cliche ridden sequel about people chasing a deus ex machina.

Ive not read the books but I got the feeling that they tried to cram too many sub plots into the second movie whereas they kept the firt one fairly simple.
At first I though they may have decided to combine the second and third movies together but I now know this isnt true.
It would appear they added the stuff left out from the first book into the second movie.
For this reason I prefer the first movie they could easily have left out 30 mins in the second movie and dealt with the bigger plots and issues.
Compared to the normal same old film these two are very good and enjoyble.
I liked them for what they were and I look forward to the third, I have no idea what direction it will go, dont tell me no spoilers please
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"Revelation Earth" a book by Evane Adamas. released Oct 09.
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Heh.

You know, the more I think about it, you may actually have a point. Personally, I'm one of what seems like 1% of the human population that wasn't blown away by The Dark Knight as a film. I think it is quite arguably the most overrated film ever greenlighted by Hollywood.

I don't know about the Top 250, but if a film like TDK can receive 9.0/10 stars on the imdb, I see no reason why a film like this one and its predecessor shouldn't be at least rated higher than they are now.

Batman Begins had an $150 million budget with an additional $100 million in marketing cost and The Dark Knight had an $185 million budget and the single most brain assaulting marketing campaign ever which I'm sure cost insane amounts of money for WB.

On the other hand, both Night Watch and Day Watch reportedly had budgets less than $5 million and still managed to at least be on some level comparable to both of Nolan's Batman films from the perspective of direction and editing, didn't dumb-down everything in the script as if the audience was stupid like TDK did, and was more complex and consistent from a film perspective than BB or TDK.

As it is now, these movies obviously have a cult following. It would be interesting if someone were to remake these films here in the U.S. to see how they would be done and to see how successful they would be. Just a thought.

it's no worse than Dark Knight.

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I didn't watch Night Watch but here are some reasons why I wasn't really impressed by Day Watch.

1) A good sequel movie, while building on its predecessor, should not be completely incomprehensible as a stand alone movie. I can give you innumerable examples of movies that you can understand without watching the previous one. Matrix reloaded. The Empire Strikes Back. Two Towers. The Dark Knight. Spiderman 2. Terminator 2. Etc.

2) The movie was long and convoluted to my mind. It tried to do too much, follow too many characters.

3) The acting was okay, nothing special in the least. At times I thought it was kind of bad, and I'm a native Russian speaker...

4) Parts of it seemed kind of cliche, though I suppose that's more of a criticism of the books than it is of the movies. Chalk of fate? Great other? I had a hard time not rolling my eyes at those.

5) Other parts were really random or just didn't make that much sense. Why would the people guarding the chalk of fate build this great walled fortress if horsemen could just crash through it? Makes walls kind of pointless, doesn't it? That Uncle Evil dude guy told Egor he didn't want to kill the great other girl (forget her name) yet he was perfectly fine with Egor's suggestion of sucking the life out of her until she (presumably) died. Then that yo-yo ball thing that Egor threw thing that killed darks and lights and leveled half the city and somehow only blinded the girl? Like, seriously? And don't get me started on the ending. My head almost exploded.

6) I felt a lot of the visual effects were flashy for the sake of being flashy.

I'll probably rent Night Watch sometime but to be honest my expectations aren't terribly high.

"Just because your too dumb to understand the film or too dumb to watch Nightwatch before attempting Daywatch, doesn't mean the film isn't good. My wife is dumb as a rock and she didn't have any trouble following this!"
Just because you like the movie, it doesn't mean it's good! I started to like it but found it too long and complexified (too many subplots, things that had not been clarified, faulty characterization, etc.). Have more respect for other people (starting with your wife!), keep an open mind to the fact that they might not have the same opinion as you, and do yourself a favour: don't criticize people you don't know if not for a good reason (and having a different opinion is NOT a good reason). It's not because you can follow a movie, you can be considered clever, and vice versa. I found it hard to follow it sometimes. I even fell asleep a few times, so it took me 4 or 5 attempts to see it through to the end. Yes, I did watch "Nightwatch" and the same thing happened. And, as a teacher and writer fluent in 3 languages and understanding another 2, I'm not what YOU would call dumb. So, to those who found the movies bad, stick to your guns. It's your right to hate a movie YOU think is bad! To those who liked it, good for you!
I liked the editing, the sound mixing, the visual effects...but as for the script, it could have been better, especially in terms of narrative units and characters.
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