Master and Commander (2003 film)

January 19, 2025, 07:12 AM

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Originally posted by KSGM:
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My only problem with the movie was the "Jonah" angle
That part doesn't bother me much, if at all. I thought it was a reasonable injection of the superstition that's common in military atmospheres; likely to the extreme, in the naval culture of the period.

It's realistic, but it takes a well paced movie and throws the anchor and stop it dead. It also took up about 25 minutes which was too long.

January 19, 2025, 07:30 AM

Anubismp

I think I and many people missed on this movie when it came out as I was looking for Gladiator on the high seas which it is not. Also looking at the release year I was deployed so I likely missed any advertising explaining what we were getting. Watching it with a few more years on I have come to really appreciate this movie.

January 19, 2025, 08:40 AM

aparoche

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Originally posted by Anubismp:
I think I and many people missed on this movie when it came out as I was looking for Gladiator on the high seas which it is not. Also looking at the release year I was deployed so I likely missed any advertising explaining what we were getting. Watching it with a few more years on I have come to really appreciate this movie.

It also came out the same year as “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl“ which obviously went on to be a franchise film series. Masters and Commander was a really good movie and it did okay in the box office but not well enough to justify a sequel due to its high production costs.

January 19, 2025, 08:59 AM

Biker_dude

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Originally posted by PASig:
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Originally posted by Biker_dude:
I own it. I always considered it just .. meh. It ended like they were trying to guarantee an audience for a sequel, but there was no sequel. I guess because movie goers considered it .. meh.

It was originally intended to be a three part movie series.

It did relatively poorly at the box office and that’s why that never happened.

Thanks. I thought as much. They should have made it a mini tv series for streaming.