Oh yes….. Napoleon by Ridley Scott

[dickiegranthum]

I attempted to persevere last night... it did not last long...

Took me all day to get through it. It truly is awful.

[olicana]

Took me all day to get through it.

It's going to take even longer than that to get over it. I'm still coming out in cold sweats.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

The consensus appears to be that this may not be one of Sir Ridley’s better efforts?

[Patrice]

I still haven't seen the film. Some small bits I've seen have attracted my curiosity but I could not believe it was real, it seems so ridiculous.

OTOH I've seen comments on internet of some French ultra-nationalist Napoleon admirers, who seem utterly outraged, that could let me to have some indulgence. 

[Basementboy]

To be fair we’ve had some great historical films over recent years, I think we can allow Hollywood this slip-up

[Harry Faversham]

By the time it got to Waterloo, I thought it couldn't get any worse, I was wrong! The Little Man in the funny 'at gads about skewering people with his sabre. When he knocks off at snap time, there's a fat bloke stood behind him, gnashing his teeth and scowling. It's not till it all goes tits up that this clown bellows his only line...

"Come and see how a Marshal of France dies!"

 

[DaveCrow]

My dear wife fell asleep during our line and only watch. She was the lucky one.

Wasn't Napoleon supposed to be possessed of great charisma? We got a petulant sulker with the charisma of wet cardboard.

If you haven't seen Napoleon yet do your self a favor and go watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace instead. It is truly the more enjoyable experience.

We didn't quite get the massed cavalry charge down a steep hill into massed pikes that Perter Jackson gave us. That at least you could follow what was happening. Instead we got, god only knows what confused mess.