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Unrelated, I saw The Nightingale (2018) this weekend.
One review described it as 'flat' and I think that's a good word for it. Never had Australia felt so claustrophobic on film.
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Definitely something that could do with a modern streaming series, though. Dunno how much they could save on expenses these days by not shooting in the open ocean, but the original film refit an entire old-school sailing ship to fill the role of the Surprise. They also did most of the shooting actually out at sea, which is no end of expense for safety and conditions and whatnot.
I love the shit out of the film, but I dunno how much modern Western audiences would be interested in seeing a Master and Commander series with the British Empire in its prime of fucking over and/or murdering everything it could reach with a boat.
I used some xmas money to get all of Black Sails on BluRay
Tons of old timey ship action and meaningful glances between repressed Englishmen
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100% agree that BttF 3 is definitely better than 2.
Not to say that 2 was terrible but to me 3 was a lot more enjoyable from a character perspective.
Black Sails was a blast. The only thing I didn't like was how quickly I blew through it.
I don't think it's fair to chalk it up to nostalgia. I think 1 is damn near perfect, which made 2, at the time, kind of a letdown. With 3 fast on its heels release wise, it was just the middle one for a long time. I know I didn't appreciate it until I got the trilogy as a gift and watched all the extras. Revisiting the original was awesome, the special effects on the hoverboards were fantastic, Oh La La? Oh La La?! Tom Wilson got to play every end of a complete asshole across time and space. It's really well made, and really only suffers when you can see the stitching where they grafted new character traits onto Marty to give him a trilogy arc that wasn't there to start.
3 is more of a mood. It's great, but it leaves a lot of energy behind at the drive in theater. I think it's easily the weakest of the 3, which is still pretty damn good.
There are hints that it goes on, sure. Flashbacks of importance to major characters, for example. A pair of sailors blowing off work to go visit the “fuck tent” in a place where there are no women. But aside from that it’s positively prudish when it comes to male homosexuality.
Meanwhile there are multiple lesbian liaisons on screen.
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Iron Man is only generic in as much as basically every MCU movie made since 2007 has basically trying to be its own version of it. When it came out, it was interesting.
Anyway, if you haven't seen it it's probably the best big all-star WWII movie ever made. It's an incredible piece of work with an absurd amount of money thrown at recreating a titanic military operation. Melancholic where The Longest Day is triumphant, witty and exciting where Midway is dull and plodding, realistic where Where Eagles Dare is ludicrous (but very fun).
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It's an annoying double standard. I mean, I'm a mostly hetero male, so I can appreciate some well done female nudity but hows about we equal things up some huh? Let's get those dicks out.
Part of that, as I understand it, is the ratings system. It's a lot easier to finagle through with female nudity than male. Aside from just the regular social bias towards "stuff white men like is what we see most."
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Them could use the Wall of Awesome Screens from The Mandalorian to do the ship scenes.
Add for the theme, not a lot they can do about that. Maybe add a scrappy kid from India who makes the Captain question his beliefs.
I don't know. With how sequels for various properties have been treated over the years, I'm fine with having the one perfect Master & Commander movie.
That being said, I wouldn't mind a big screen adaptation of Desolation Island. A chase through the churning storm ridden seas of the South Atlantic, ended by a lucky shot that capsizes the pursuer? Yes, please.
The mix of "Holy shit, we're saved," and "The horrors that just befell our foe" ...
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The film had the doctor press the captain pretty hard about all the shit the British Navy fucked its own citizens over worth, and the film did not hesitate to show that Captain Aubrey was a through-and-through "for the glory of the Empire!" type willing to spill as much blood as necessary, friendly or hostile, to protect the Empire. He's got a boat crewed mostly by conscripted men thousands of miles and months of travel away from home, the food is trash, the water is unspeakable, the conditions are horrific, and what his big motivating line for the crew when training? Asking them if they want their children to be singing the French national anthem. Nevermind the Empire will happily let their kids starve to death and has taken away the fathers, brothers, and sons of so many families, the big thing is just... not be French.
Thematically, you just can't peel the propaganda element out of those stories without making them different stories. The way the doctor hounds the captain about the shitty things he does to keep order is about as much as can be done, and the rest of it is painting the British Empire as collectively heroic because there was no other thinking allowed at the time.
But on a technical level, yeah, I think they could accomplish a series/new film quite well and a lot more cheaply with modern tech. They did quite a lot with what the original had, but the tech has advanced enormously since then. I'd still want them to have an actual physical boat for the filming, though.
The boat does not necessarily have to be on water, though, let alone the open ocean.
Almost 20 years on, I still have a ton of affection for this movie. It wasn't made for a whole lot of money (no lavish interior sets, no big crowds of costumed extras aside from a couple scenes) and it doesn't really have any lofty cinematic ambitions. But it's just...really nice, and solidly-constructed, and wholesome. It feels like an old-school Hollywood adventure, like Captain Blood or The Sea Hawk, with a focus on giving you a likable lead, a lot of character actors inhabiting brief but memorable roles, a tight, workman-like script that puts its focus on clarity and giving everyone a few good lines, and some adventure and thrills.
It's not really a whole lot like the novel, of course (which I also love), but it makes for a really pleasant, refreshing adventure story. It's one of those perfect things to put on the tv on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Which is the most Bob Zemeckis thing possible.
And teenage Henry Cavill was already built like a brick shithouse.
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And yet I don't remember him being particularly massive in Stardust, though it's been some time since I've seen it and probably not since he became a name.
I legit love this movie. Cavaziel as the count is great in that duality role, but Luis Guzman is my favorite as his loyal servant.
Plus slimy Guy Pearce, the only version anyone should want.
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Is he in that?
Because I don't think he's in that
It barely looks like him.
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I know it gets a lot of hate from the book fans for not being like the novel but honestly, that's also a large part of why I like it. Dantes suffers greatly and loses much, but he doesn't lose everyone he cares about and ultimately grows enough to realize how worthless the vengeance he pursues is in the face of gaining back his family. And the actor for Dantes really does a great job with the role, doing a great job with naive young sailor with a bright future, the desperate prisoner, the cold Count, and Dantes beneath the Count's exterior, seething with long-lived well-planned hatred and vengeance.
It's a revenge movie where my favorite parts are not the cathartic justice angle (though those moments are satisfying), but the moments where Dantes and his bloodthirsty plans are thwarted by simple human truths. The hero actually sort of loses, but it's the sort of loss I can appreciate.
Need to go watch "The Rover" again, thanks for the reminder.
The movie does have some pretty great one-liners.
Albert (having been kidnapped): Who are you? Why are you doing this?
Pirate captain (casually): Because we are bad men and for the money.
And there's honestly a whole pile of moments like that where a single line does a great job of capturing a character or scene.