Don't watch sub titled version

Yep,the subtitles are incomplete or simly inacurate.I remember watching Night Watch,the scene where Anton fights Andrey.And there was something like :

Andrey "Using live bait,pig?"
Anton "No bait.Just me." where is "No,just bread".

and i was like "WTF?!"

The next one was

Andrey "My teeth!" (screaming)
Anton "Sorry.",but he didn't say "Sorry".He said "Shut up." or "Shut your mouth,will ya?" or something like that.

Dunno 'bout the dubbed,but i am pretty sure lots of the Russian humour and culture are lost in translation.

Dude where the HELL did you get the English dubbed version of this movie?? I bought this movie during the Boxing Day Weekend sales at Best Buy and I have yet to watch it. I have Night Watch, and have watched the dubbed version, and its ok, but I'd also like to watch the sequel sometime. For me it just takes the joy out of watching a film, because instead of watching it, I'd be pausing and reading it every other minute or so. I was actually dissapointed when I bought the movie and found out that it was all in Russian with English subtitles. I have no problem with movies being in their own native tongue and all, because I welcome it, but this film is like 2hrs and 26mins long!!

How about a shave? I can guarantee the closest shave you'll ever know.

the version i watched seemed pretty accurate we watched it in russian class and our teacher would have said something

I watched the subtitled version and had the same problem with only seeing part of the subtitles. The solution - and you may kick yourself for this - is to change the screen resolution on your TV. The subtitles are all there, but you won't see them if you watch in "fullscreen" mode.

Chances are the subtitles are more accurate than the dubbing, as they may say different things to fit with the movement of the lips.

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I'm a native Russian speaker, and I watched this movie twice with English subtitles. And both times I just wanted to yell STOP and explain to my friends what was really being said.

The subtitles in this movie often don't tell you what the characters are actually saying. Instead, they seem to take every opportunity to catch you up on the plot and hammer in the fact that there are two great others, the end of the world is nigh, etc. In reality, this is only mentioned once or twice in the dialog, but the subtitles make it seem like that's all they talk about.

So basically, whenever there's a joke, some character development, or just dialog for the sake of exposition, the subtitles will instead reiterate who the good and the bad guys are, and that things are gonna get wild. This makes it seem like you're watching a shallow action movie where it's all about the final showdown, whereas the real movie is much more touching and substantial.

And then there's just blatant mistranslations for whatever reason.


Galina's conversation with Anton when she pulls up to his house is almost entirely mistranslated. She wants him to get Yegor's hat from Day Watch. She's talking about Anton and trying to appeal to him as a parent, reminding him of his son's birthday, etc. I think the subtitles just had them arguing over nothing.

When Galina's body is being examined, there's an old woman who runs in screaming. The subtitles say something like "that's my neighbor!" Actually, the old woman is Galina's mother, and yells out "that's my daughter!" A minor difference?

When Alisa is telling Kostya about Galina's murder, she tells him "she had a neighbor" or something to that effect (in the subtitles). In Russian, she tells him that Galina had a daughter. She is appealing to Kostya's compassion. Lost in translation I guess! In fact there's a whole scene that's not in the English version where Alisa goes to Galina's house after the murder and meets her daughter. Emotional character development? Who needs it! There are Great Dark Ones about!

When Anton uses the chalk and Yegor appears and Anton is excited and cheering, the subtitles say something like "my son is here!" but really he's saying "it's my son's birthday!" (in literal Russian - my son is born). Subtle but...

There's a bunch of mistranslations about Kostya which I guess were made to simplify the plot. His father isn't trying to get Zavulon to make him human, just to make an exception so that he's not required to drink human blood. From what I understand, it's a system similar to a draft.


Anyway, you get the picture. I haven't seen the dubbed version, so I don't know whether they do any better. Still, it's a great movie despite the subtitles, and

I just watched this on IFC last night, not sure if it is the "fixed" Blu-Ray version or not. It was shown with subtitles, and as a person who works in video post-production I have to say that what they did with the sub-titling was awesome. They used different colors, moved the words around on screen, and when someone said "there's someone knocking on the door) the word "knocking" would shake to the sound of the knock. There were many other tricks they used that really impressed me. I usually prefer to watch movies with sub-titles and this one is almost a must-do.