Musketeers - BBC Discuss!

[anevilgiraffe]

True enough, but I think that thread had sunk way down the board until AEG (quite justifiably) just bumped it.

Good idea to have just one discussion on this programme though, where we can all vent about how much we hated it (while secretly enjoying it) 

I'll lock the other thread to concentrate fire on this new one...

Thanks.

sorry, I short cutted to it... 

[Captain Blood]

No problem. Just keeping things tidy 

[Cubs]

Yeah, the 70's version is the dog's doo-dah's, even if they do have Athos as being the big strong one instead of Porthos. But who can deny Olly Reed's brilliance as the brooding borderline psychopath?

I quite enjoyed the older version of the musketeers in 'The Man in the Iron Mask' (1998), with Gabriel Byrne, Gerard Depadieu, John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons. It seems to have been the best cast of the various incarnations I've seen.

[Galloping Major]

I quite enjoyed the older version of the musketeers in 'The Man in the Iron Mask' (1998), with Gabriel Byrne, Gerard Depadieu, John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons. It seems to have been the best cast of the various incarnations I've seen.

That's a good one too 

[Lowtardog]

sorry, I short cutted to it... 

Woops sorry, I tend to search through unread posts hence my haste

and Yup the McDonald Fraser Musketeer films cant be beat. Ifact if you want something in a rather anachronistic vein Frasers Reavers book/audio is of equal bizzare nature, more akin to yellow beard

[joroas]

This is just the latest case of recreating old stuff for a new generation......... 

[Franz_Josef]

I fully agree that the 70's versions (the Three and Four Musketeers -  which was originally intended to be released as one movie) remains the best ever done - screenplay and wonderful dialogue by George McDonald Fraser; fine cast (Christopher Lee as Rochefort !); true period costuming (contrast that with the bad Ye Olde Renaissance Faire look of the modern version leatherette), weapons, and even background details (check out such small details as the games being played in the taverns and by Rochefort's toadies; the "human hamster wheel" treadmill to raise heavy loads above the first floor; the sedan chairs); and a fine score.  Why watch the poor modern version (likewise, why watch the stupid modern Spartacus, when the Kirk Douglas version is near perfect)?     

[Captain Blood]

Actually, what I should have said, is that apart from the silly costumes and the clanking anachronisms of some of the very C21st streetwise quips and asides, I quite enjoyed the new BBC version. Nice buildings (eastern Europe, obviously), quite liked the music, and I thought there was some good acting and characterisation, even if it was all a bit panto. Thought Porthos was completely wrong - not because of his ethnicity, but because of his accent. Bit like Ray Winstone's Henry VIII... A musketeer wiv a London accent innit. Hopeless. Thought Aramis and Athos were pretty good though. The main problem with it is the current vogue for period dramas to pretend these are modern people in period dress. Obviously people 400 years ago, fictional or historical, were not modern people, and did not have the same turn of phrase, attitudes or sensibilities. So it's just the latest conceit in Telly-land.
Set that aside, and it's all good fun and reasonably well done.
Not HBO though, is it?

[gamer Mac]

I thought it was quite good apart from the uniform.
I will be watching the rest of them.

[Eric the Shed]

I enjoyed it and the ladies are very easy on the eye...

[Malamute]

I enjoyed it and the ladies are very easy on the eye...

Yep, seconded, especially Milady

[gringo]

now now Nick remember your blood pressure!!

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Not seen it yet (we recorded it) - so I will hold back on any discussion.

Tony

[joroas]

I enjoyed it and the ladies are very easy on the eye...


Yep, seconded, especially Milady Wink

Easier than Raquel Welch? 

[Malamute]

Easier than Raquel Welch? 

Never!