Master and Commander - opinions?

[Mount Suribachi]

Its on Pay-per-view atm, and with my long weekend off coming up........is it worth the 3 quid viewing price?

[Gawain of Orkeny]

The most realistic sailing epic ever. It has two of the greatest battle scenes ever ship on ship that I have ever seen. Unfortunaltly these occur at the beggining and end of the movie with a long but very interesting pause in between. Its more than worth watching. If you want to know what it was like to serve in the British Navy back then its a must see.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Great movie, saw it in theaters (had to rob two banks to afford it, but that is another story).

Battle scenes are intense! Talking in between, less so. ~;)

If you do not need gallons of blood to be visually stimulated, then you'll probably enjoy it.

~:cheers:

[Goofball]

Great movie, saw it in theaters (had to rob two banks to afford it, but that is another story).

Battle scenes are intense! Talking in between, less so. ~;)

If you do not need gallons of blood to be visually stimulated, then you'll probably enjoy it.

~:cheers:
I thought it was overly long and a little on the boring side.

I also found it to be vaguely homoerotic. A bunch of muscular, shirtless men (and a few young boys) on a long ocean cruise, high leather boots, the discipline of the lash...

I think all you conservatives who loved the movie so much really need to ask yourselves why you found it so engrossing...

~:eek:

[Steppe Merc]

Goofy, that's messed up! ~:shock: I liked it, and thought it was one of the better movies of the year. Of course I didn't see that many besides Lord of the Rings last year.... Anywho, yeah, you should see it.

[KukriKhan]

Sigh. Goofball. Dude. We've talked 'n stuff. You're 'going page 3' on me, on page 1. ~D

Pay-per-view is what, $5? Worth that. As noted above, a little tedious between battles...maybe the film-makers were going for typical military duty: Looooong periods of humdrum, punctuated unpredictably by short periods of life-and-death struggle.

[Goofball]

Sigh. Goofball. Dude. We've talked 'n stuff. You're 'going page 3' on me, on page 1. ~D Okay, I should have put more smiley faces around that. I really was just trying to get a laugh.

I said the same thing in person to a buddy of mine who is openly homophobic and he started to get really mad at me before he realized how hard I was trying to keep a straight face.

Unfortunately, that doesn't come accross on a computer screen as well as in person...

My apologies to anybody who's latent urges I might have awakened.

~;) ~:p ~:joker:

[Longshanks]

Great movie. Probably the most realistic movie dealing with the Age of Sail to date. Personally I didn't notice the "homoerotic" aspects of the movie, but I'm not a liberal. If you are the type that supports gays marriages, perhaps it may be a little "homoerotic." ~:p

[Gawain of Orkeny]

didn't notice the "homoerotic" aspects of the movie

I thought he meant like the Illiad ~:joker:

[Nelson]

A great film. I enjoyed every minute of it, from the broadsides to the cello and violin duets to the the banter in the mess.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I really liked the lesser of two weevils

[Steppe Merc]

The Lesser of the two weezils line was made even funnier by the fact that they had all had too much to drink, and were laughing like buffoons. ~:joker:

[Dhepee]

I highly recommend it but then I read all of the books. It is a very interesting picture of what life was like on a frigate in the early 19th century. I suppose that the middle can be a bit tedious, but then so was sailing half way around the world on a ship powered only by the wind. The tedium interspersed with intense action is what makes it realistic.

[Somebody Else]

If you've read and enjoyed the books (as I have) it's best to forget that you have read them, and think of it as a good naval adventure, because though there is a passing resemblance to the books, it doesn't quite follow any of them in particular - it has bits out of different ones. (Plus, in the relevent book, it's an American frigate, not a French one)

One reason I had for enjoying it, apart from the entertaining ship to ship engagements was the presence of an old school friend on the crew.

[Plantagenet]

Nowhere near as good as I thought it would be. Even the climactic battle was a little disappointing. IMO, too much "character development" and not enough naval action.

That being said, its worth seeing if you haven't, especially if you're a 19th c. naval warfare fan.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Plus, in the relevent book, it's an American frigate, not a French one)

Well its an American frigate in the movie also its judt being sailed by the French Navy ~:joker:

[BDC]

It's pretty good, kind of lacking any real story though...

I watched it and felt I'd somehow missed the movie.

[JAG]

It's not half bad.

[Cloudkill]

Its on Pay-per-view atm, and with my long weekend off coming up........is it worth the 3 quid viewing price?
One of my very favorite movies. Definately worth seeing!

[Devastatin Dave]

I thought it was overly long and a little on the boring side.

I also found it to be vaguely homoerotic. A bunch of muscular, shirtless men (and a few young boys) on a long ocean cruise, high leather boots, the discipline of the lash...

I think all you conservatives who loved the movie so much really need to ask yourselves why you found it so engrossing...

~:eek:

So that's why my nipples were hard during the movie. ;)

[Mount Suribachi]

Well I watched it and it was pretty enjoyable. Fewer Hollywood Cliche's than normal - not cliche free, but still fewer ~:)