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'Everyone knows that when faced with a difficult choice, one must choose...' | |||
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Drug Dealer |
There's only one movie. The books (20 plus a part of a 21st) are stand-alone novels and can be read in any order, but they do follow each other sequentially. Given the choice, I'd read them in order but it doesn't really matter that much. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
I loved the movie. It should be required viewing for anybody who ever has to lead people: A man pushed past you, yet you said nothing. Why? I intended to, sir, but the right words didn't... The right words? He was deliberately insubordinate. I've tried to get to know the men, sir, and be friendly, but they've taken a set against me. Always whispering when I go past and giving me looks. I'll set that to rights. I'll be much tougher on them. You don't make friends with the foremast jacks, lad. They'll despise you in the end, think you weak. Nor do you need to be a tyrant. I read the book the movie was based on, and I didn't like it at all. I found it humorous that in the book the enemy frigate was American. Guess it was better to have them be Frenchmen, especially considering the anti-French mood in the country at the time the movie came out (when the Frogs refused to help us invade Iraq). Naturally, US movie-goers would have a hard time rooting for the Brits when they were set against an American ship. I did read the entire Richard Bolitho series by Alexander Kent (I binge-read all 28 books from Jan-May this year), and enjoyed them up to a point. They got too soap-opera-y towards the end. I have not read any of the Ramage novels or the Hornblower series. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
available on Amazon Prime. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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Go Vols! |
I keep meaning to watch this again. I have to admit I fell asleep to it. I don’t say that because it is a bad movie. I think the classical soundtrack is just very relaxing to me. | |||
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Making the frigate French had nothing to do with anti French anything. You can’t make this movie as the Surprise takes on the Constitution and expect us to root for the Brit’s. I suppose you could make the ship Spanish but historically that wouldn’t make much sense. Great movie. | |||
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Fantastic movie. Love Peter Weir's directing. --------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves. | |||
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I read the 4th book first in grad school and thought it was so good I went back to the first and read the entire series. Great nautical fiction. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
Its my second favorite movie. Right behind last of the Mohicans. | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
My son actually auditioned for this. He was around 8 years old and speaks French so, the (now ex) wife and I thought, "what the heck, let's try" Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers | |||
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| SIGforum's Berlin Correspondent  |
https://www.slashfilm.com/new-...-and-commander-film/ My feelings almost exactly. With two decades since the original, there were slim chances for Crowe and Bettany to reprise their roles anyway - even though you could have set it near the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The books certainly provide ample material, and there is frequent mention how Aubrey balloons in weight over his career, so it's not like Crowe wouldn't have fit these days. So I'm left with hoping the new installation does justice to the standard set; and after all there's ample material for the years before 1805, too. | |||
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There is a world elsewhere |
While Patrick O'Brien even asks the reader for permission to play around with the timeline of the books and the actual history of the Napoleonic wars, it would be difficult to erase 20 years from Bettany and Crowe's faces. If Scorcese's "The Irishman" is any indication, make-up and CGI can only hide so much. And for such a physical role, you can't expect them to reprise those roles. There were earlier attempts by Crowe to try and get a new film made over a decade ago, but he's on the wrong side of 50. Plus, in spite of their performances, Crowe and Bettany aren't anything like the characters in the books. Bettany is too tall and Crowe is too short, but the real tragedy is we see nothing of their real personalities. c'est la vie A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed. | |||
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| Drug Dealer |
Fans of the movie might enjoy these ~25min of deleted scenes. I did. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
I took up the cello because of this film. | |||
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Sounds like a second movie based around Aubry and Matterin will be given the 'Jack Ryan treatment'. One can only hope they stay faithful to how the original was put together and the landmark achievement with how it was written, filmed and produced. | |||
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