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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 01:51:15 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   When Russian urban fantasy supernatural film "Night Watch" (2004) was released outside of Russia, a new version was produced. An inferior one, imo. Since then the "International" version became the one distributed across all formats, and the original 115 min cut was confined to a DVD released in only in Russia.

   Now you can find a direct stream copy of the DVD together with official English subtitles in an MKV here: https://archive.org/details/night-watch-2004-original

   Comprehensive comparison: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2891

   • Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 01:57:46 UTC Thomas 🔭✨

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     @dosnostalgic oh neat, I think I’ve only seen the export version

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 01:57:46 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Thomas 🔭✨

     @thomasfuchs Most people did. It became the one that took over even in Russia over time. Which is unfortunate because it takes out things that should have been left in, and adds stupid exposition dumps as well as other additions that just weren't needed.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 02:08:29 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Since it's Russian media produced by the state, here's a quick note:

     The director of the film Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) spoke out against Russian war in Ukraine.

     The writer of the source novel Sergey Lukyanenko banned Ukrainian translations of his books, denies Ukraine's existence, and wished violence on Ukrainian children.

     So that's where we're at 20 years later. 🤷♂️

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 03:37:24 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Added OCRed external subtitles, so you don't have to deal with original DVD font.

   • digituba (digituba@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:25:00 UTC digituba

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     @dosnostalgic I loved these movies, especially this scene https://youtu.be/gVE0NqOYE7A

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:54:02 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Jörg

     @JoergA Scroll up

   • Jörg (joerga@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:54:03 UTC Jörg

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     @dosnostalgic Hm, I guess it's from Nightwatch / Nochnoy dozor - correct? 😁

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 16:39:02 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @loadhigh I do like the sequel as well. Fortunately the shortened International theatrical version of Day Watch was seen by very few, and only the original cut made it onto every home video release around the world. With Night Watch I really feel the changes made the movie worse.

   • CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH (loadhigh@bitbang.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 16:39:03 UTC CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH

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     @dosnostalgic It would be interesting to watch it again, I totally forgot what happened.

     The sequel (Day Watch) stuck with me more but only because it was so weird. I remember a giant ferris wheel rolling through a city and a very important, magical chalk that turned out to be used to write down the soup of the day or something at a restaurant.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 16:54:54 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • COMPU73E ❄️
     • Judeau

     @COMPU73E @Judeau This is the one, the original. If you're familiar with this one, you might as well check out the International Cut to see all the changes.
     There are two variations of the International version too:
     - One is in Russian, but with fancy *animated* subtitles.
     - No animated subtitles, but choice of regular English subtitles or an okay-ish dub.

   • COMPU73E ❄️ (compu73e@mstdn.games)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 16:54:55 UTC COMPU73E ❄️

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     • Judeau

     @dosnostalgic @Judeau that's the version on the Russian DVD I imported into the UK back when it first came out, I guess? It's the only version I've ever seen and I honestly had no idea it was a different cut of the film! Still one of the most unique items in my DVD collection

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 03:39:19 UTC mcc

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     @dosnostalgic We finally got around to following this rec, and that was really fun.

     Should we watch Day Watch?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 03:59:43 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • mcc

     @mcc I like Day Watch a bunch. And thankfully the only version available on home video is unchanged.