Master and Commander - Anybody going to see this?

[JohnT]

I did link to two reviews in the first post.

[reds4ever]

Ive seen the trailer and it looks like Russel Crowe in 'Maximus at sea'?

[st_swithin]

No one can top Gregory Peck as a sea captain.

[Jac de Molay]

Lots of special effects? No hugging? No sharing? No learning?

Sounds like my kind of movie.

[Sava]

I'll see it... looks good...

[molly bloom]

I think the film is based on two of O'Brian's novels.

I enjoyed the books very much, as did my father in law, so we're both looking forward to seeing the film. I'd watch most historical films anyway (other than Mel Gibson's, or 'Shakespeare in Love') but a film about rum, sodomy and the lash, and with tight fitting 18th/19th century britches....
well it's too good to miss.

And nobody beats Charles Laughton as a ship's captain. Unless it's Jack Hawkins. Or Humphrey Bogart.

[General Ludd]

Is just because of the boats people want to see it? I didn't realize there was still a popular fascination with that sort of thing.

[David Floyd]

I saw it, and enjoyed it.

[Tuberski]

If it had somebody besides the over-hyped Russell Crowe.

Because it does, it's a rental at best.

ACK!

[monolith94]

"It's why I went to go see Luther about a month ago - I never dreamed that I'd see a biopic on his life, not in this secular age, not on the big screen."

I heard that that was a terrible film - it looked pretty bad. Was it?

[Ned]

I saw the movie yesterday. Crowe does a wonderful job. The ships cannon duels are very realistic, but the action scenes where people are firing cannons or getting blown up or fighting hand to hand are so short and chaotic as to be unitelligible. I don't know what the director was trying to portray other than chaos. If that was his intent, he succeeded.

Also, one gets a very good flavor of what it was like abort a British warship in that era.

I'd rate the film 4 out of 5 stars -- about twice as good as Matrix Rev.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by JohnT
A movie like this deserves the big screen. You wouldn't wait to see the next LOTR movie on video, would you?

Yes. If I saw it at all LOTR sucked

*dons flame-retardent suit*

[Ned]

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There is an excellent joke by Crowe that makes the movie thoroughly enjoyable. It involves two weevils crawing on a plate. Crowe asks the doctor which of the two weevils he prefers. After some prodding, the doctor dons his glass and peers closely at the two worms. He then says he prefers the larger weevil.

The captain then shouts that the doctor is quite wrong. Didn't he know that in the Royal Navy that one must prefer the "lesser of two weevils!"

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Osweld
Why's everyone so excited about this? It looks like just another typical hollywood cheese-fest to me

Actually not really...

Basically about the only thing 'hollywood' in this is the financial backing.

Other than that it is almost purely and Australian/UK production.

Patrick O'Brian is British

Peter Weir is Australian (excellent director BTW!)

So is Russell Crowe...

Most of the rest of the cast is British, including the excellent Paul Bettany - in fact the film is so 'un-American' that I don't recognise a single American actor in it, which is probably why this is shaping up to be a great movie!

I for one am looking forward to it!

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by MOBIUS


Actually not really...

Basically about the only thing 'hollywood' in this is the financial backing.

Other than that it is almost purely and Australian/UK production.

Patrick O'Brian is British

Peter Weir is Australian (excellent director BTW!)

So is Russell Crowe...

Most of the rest of the cast is British, including the excellent Paul Bettany - in fact the film is so 'un-American' that I don't recognise a single American actor in it, which is probably why this is shaping up to be a great movie!

I for one am looking forward to it!

Alright, so it's an internationaly backed cheese-fest.