Author Topic: Oh yes….. Napoleon by Ridley Scott (Read 4503 times)

vtsaogames · « **Reply #30 on:** April 22, 2024, 06:28:22 PM »

Quote from: olicana on April 21, 2024, 05:01:30 PM

...I just hope Spielberg's effort is going to be better - it would be hard not to be.

Is he working on one?

Edit: I see, a 7-part TV series for HBO based on Kubrick's unfinished project. Hmm.

Ethelred the Almost Ready · « **Reply #31 on:** April 23, 2024, 07:30:45 AM »

Quote from: vtsaogames on April 22, 2024, 06:28:22 PM

Is he working on one?

Edit: I see, a 7-part TV series for HBO based on Kubrick's unfinished project. Hmm.

This has been kicking around for a while. Most of what I have read makes it sound like it is happening but there is scant detail, which makes me think it probably isn't.

Cubs · « **Reply #32 on:** April 23, 2024, 09:31:45 AM »

Quote from: Redshank on April 22, 2024, 05:26:10 PM

Finally watched this on a plane last week. It really is as bad as everyone says.

I'll bet some people still walked out.

Pattus Magnus · « **Reply #33 on:** April 23, 2024, 03:50:10 PM »

“I'll bet some people still walked out.”

That’s quite the statement about how bad the movie is! I haven’t seen it yet, and probably won’t.

has.been · « **Reply #34 on:** April 23, 2024, 05:08:18 PM »

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I haven’t seen it yet, and probably won’t.

Oh you must see it...why should we be the only ones to suffer?

CapnJim · « **Reply #35 on:** April 23, 2024, 05:21:37 PM »

Quote from: has.been on April 23, 2024, 05:08:18 PM

Oh you must see it...why should we be the only ones to suffer?

Yeah - misery loves company - I don't think i could stand a 2nd viewing, though...

Pattus Magnus · « **Reply #36 on:** April 23, 2024, 06:58:06 PM »

Are the uniforms at least plausible? I get hung up when a movie or series set in a “historical” period completely ignores what folks actually wore in the time period. That godawful King Arthur movie with Kiera Knightly, for example… I’m not sure that I am up for the masochism OG putting up with enormous plot holes if the visual spectacle doesn’t compensate a bit.

Ethelred the Almost Ready · « **Reply #37 on:** April 23, 2024, 08:21:49 PM »

Quote from: Pattus Magnus on April 23, 2024, 06:58:06 PM

Are the uniforms at least plausible? I get hung up when a movie or series set in a “historical” period completely ignores what folks actually wore in the time period. That godawful King Arthur movie with Kiera Knightly, for example… I’m not sure that I am up for the masochism OG putting up with enormous plot holes if the visual spectacle doesn’t compensate a bit.

There are a few visual gems in the movie. The uniforms and sets are great. I think they did the Coup of 18 Brumaire well. The battles are awful. I don't understand how many film critics found the battles to be "epic". None were particularly exciting (except, perhaps the battle at Toulon) and most completely ignored Napoleonic formations and tactics.

Pattus Magnus · « **Reply #38 on:** April 24, 2024, 03:29:04 AM »

“ The uniforms and sets are great.” That’s something, I suppose. The movie sounds like a lost opportunity, though. They had a massive budget, high profile cast, and then couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to the historical content. I don’t get that - it’s not like a crew of competent historical advisors would cost anything like what one of the star actors was paid. I can only assume that they didn’t think the audience is sophisticated enough to grasp a historically accurate plot. Given that film critics found the battles epic, maybe that’s justified.

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #39 on:** April 24, 2024, 05:43:28 AM »

The battle scenes were pretty dire. Some of the scuffles in Sharpe are more 'epic'!

Fitz · « **Reply #40 on:** April 24, 2024, 05:45:11 AM »

Are you suggesting that Napoleonic battlefield tactics didn't consist of two crowds of men running at each other in disorganised mobs?

Cholmondely Percival IV · « **Reply #41 on:** April 27, 2024, 04:53:58 PM »

Quote from: Pattus Magnus on April 23, 2024, 06:58:06 PM

Are the uniforms at least plausible? I get hung up when a movie or series set in a “historical” period completely ignores what folks actually wore in the time period. That godawful King Arthur movie with Kiera Knightly, for example… I’m not sure that I am up for the masochism OG putting up with enormous plot holes if the visual spectacle doesn’t compensate a bit.

I haven’t seen King Arthur but I recall an interview with Kiera Knightly in which she discussed an idea she’d had for increasing her character’s historical accuracy, which wasn’t adopted. It entailed her being naked in a battle scene, apparently to distract her opponents and facilitate her killing them.. More research is needed in this area, I feel.