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In Reply to: Watched Master and Commander tonight posted by Victor Khomenko on November 16, 2004 at 18:35:42:
So let's talk about movies.I thought Master and Commander was a great film. What do you think it lacked?
Elliot
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About one third into the movie I turned them on. It helped in several spots. Their accent... my accent... all that noise didn't make it easy to understand some words.I also often turn the subs on on Russian movies.
You should try it too sometime.
Well, we are obviously not talking about some artistic endevour, just hopefully an edge-of-your-seat advanture film. It wasn't.It completely lacked any tension or intrigue. No mystery, no unexpected... just one cliche after another, all professionally quilted together.
For a great battle film it fell way too short - it most definitely wasn't a Waterloo or War and Peace. And since that was its main claim to fame it had little else to offer. It didn't have the excitement of better action films like Ronin.
So I thought overall it was a solid C. Maybe B-.
OK, I see what you're saying. I guess I just saw it differently. I think it transcended it's genre and worked as a character study that merged with and into a certain amount of action. In other words I thought it succeeded at being more (or less) than the typical action/adventure film. To each his own...
Elliot
It almost restored my faith in commercial cinema.
All along I felt like I could get up and leave at any moment without much regret, and come back later to finish it when I would have time... days later if necessary. With some actions films if you have to go to bathroom, you run, and you leave the door open so you would miss as little as possible. With this one it was indifferent.
M&C isn't really an "action" film. It's more a slow burn, filled with detail, take you back in time kind of adventure. Which suited me perfectly.I should also say that I'm a long-time fan of the books the film is based on, and I was quite pleased with Weir's and John Collee's (screenwriter) take on the Aubrey/Maturin series. (Which, BTW, doesn't adapt any one book.)
I think the marketing for the film promised a big actioner, Gladiator-on-the-sea kind of blockbuster, which it is not.
Salon.com and David Poland's Hot Button had the best reviews of the movie.
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