vyelkin posted:

It's so good. I wanted a whole series of them but I'm still surprised and appreciative we got even one movie like it.

buffalo all day posted:

its kind of a miracle it exists, basically not compromised in any way. I read something about how the studio exec at the time was just basically in love with it and fought like hell to make it good even though a bunch of stuff is objectively nuts like building a giant 18th century sailing ship and filming on it in a huge tank for days on end.

buffalo all day posted:

vyelkin posted:

it cost $150,000,000 to make and it was worth every penny, also this means you could make 2-3 Master and Commander movies for every one Avengers movie

Huggybear posted:

Oh I didn't realize you were the Grand Arbiter of Takes on on fantasy football twitter and therefore your opinion is automatically superior to mine. Congratulations, you seem both arrogant and, to borrow one of Stephen's favorite descriptors, "deeply stupid" at the same time. He had zero patience for people like that, interestingly. Have you ever had your nose wrung by a diminutive, yellowish, Irish-Catalanian bastard physician?

That said, I used to be a member of the Aubrey/Maturin facebook group and it's mostly boomers posting terrible sloth memes, so maybe that's more your perspective

If you want a good example of a masterpiece that is an excellent take on an excellent novel, look no further than the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice. If you want a hamfisted take on the same novel, look no further than the Kiera Knightley version of the same. If you don't understand why, study film theory, watch better cinema, or even read Jane Austen as it will deepen your appreciation for the nuance and sophistication of O'Brian's style and eye for conversational detail, and how this is completely ignored in the movie; and, how it could have been. Good for you that you liked the movie, I loving adore the kung fu genre but in no way am I going around pronouncing my absolute favorite, Ip Man, a "masterpiece" - there are gradients of objective quality in cinema, and action movies rarely transcend "an engaging distraction" even if the movie is dear to my heart for various subjective and sentimental reasons.

e: Yes, Bonden would have to have been exceptionally strong - he is often steering the ships in storms which would require immense strength, along with lifting the doctor up the rigging, the boxing match...which is, as I mentioned, another reason the movie is terrible, it is utterly miscast. Aside from Russell Crowe's complete mishandling of Aubrey's character, Paul Bettany reduces Stephen to a peevish adolescent, and even at his normal size Billy Boyd looks like he's five years old. Honestly it seems like the director, casting director and cast only read the script and not the novels themselves, and the script writer was an idiot for reasons I have already clarified.

the sex ghost posted:

I will, at some point, try the books again but the film is a certified banger. To get your fix of nautical escapades you might also try the old itv series of Hornblower if you can find it which I just like to throw on from time to time

buffalo all day posted:

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