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Dim, I think you're being a spoilsport. I don't think it was a perfect film, but I thought it was pretty great. A thoroughly entertaining film with none of the stupidities of most Hollywood epics. I don't even like Russell Crowe--I thought Gladiator was a thorough snooze--and I grew to like him in this. I thought the doctor was a little overdrawn, maybe, a bit too blunt...but, like Clark said, he's in the book. And hell, I'll take a heavy-handed naturalist for a sidekick over any of the other Hollywood cliches any day.The script is great, the action is believable, and it doesn't strike a false note throughout--comes close a couple of times, but holds back. Plus, the younger actors are very credible, which is a real feat these days.
The music could probably be less sappy, but after the brutalizing melodrama of Mystic River(FEEL IT! FEEL THE SADNESS! FEEL IT, GODDAMN IT!), my skin is somewhat thicker in that area. Plus I have a soft spot for that Tallis piece.
It also uses the appropriate film stock. All too often, an otherwise decent movie can be compromised by looking just too damn slick. Grainier film can make a movie--as witness Saving Private Ryan. Lighting has alot to do with it, and I could've stood more grit and more shadows, a more muted palette overall...but it still looks like a sea epic, and not Jurassic Park or XXX.
Go see it, it's the most enjoyable film I've seen all year. If you or someone you know has been the victim of the last Matrix or two, this will wash away the unpleasantness of that experience. It's the first film in years (ever?) that's made me hopeful about the direction of Hollywood.
_____________________________"What is this, a freak-out?"
- Violet Beauregard
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Bah. For all the criticizing on this board, I expected it to be disappointing. Brutalizing, yes. Melodramatic only to a degree. It's strengths and tastefulness far outweigh it's weaknesses.
_____________________________"But this is the plastic age,
the quiet rage
is damned and civilized."--Echobelly, "Ondine"
Gorgeous. Not dumbed down. Great music. A-I'm gonna see it again.
I see that you agree with most all the Nay points I made.:))I did enjoy it as well. All the great footage was there. If only they let me edit it!
Re:the doctor. Apparently the screenwriters mixed'n'matched several O'Brien's books[title is a combination of the 1st and last volumes] as well as the events that unfold in them and made a movie out of it.
Haven't read the books, but Rafael Sabatini was one of my favorites when I was a teenager, and something tells me O'Brien was a better writer. I might just pick up the 1st volume in the series.
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I like the idea that more future films could be in the wings, with the action being episodic rather than sequential.For me M&C is like the fifties swashbucklers I missed by some twenty years, only without the cheese that seems to compromise those films. There's something, maybe I said this, but something wholesomely fun about the film, about sea epics...
I just hope that they stick close to the books, at least as far as the dialogue goes.
I will make some calls tonight and see if I can get Mr. Weir to consider you for editor next time around.
_____________________________"What is this, a freak-out?"
- Violet Beauregard
--There's something, maybe I said this, but something wholesomely fun about the film, about sea epics...
no women...there
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