[MOVIE] Napoleon
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That looks to be worthy.
Yeah, pretty much. 
He looks a bit old -- but hell, yeah!!
Looks good, Ridley Scott is a master director
Cautiously optimistic. Though this was good...
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Is it worth going to the cinema?
I need know some comments.
I need know some comments.
Some initial reviews tended to blast it for historical inaccuracies, but I don't care.
Just going to see it sometime soon for the big screen adventure.
Just going to see it sometime soon for the big screen adventure.
Go watch it as a fantasy epic -- not much history in there.
Sounds like it's a stinker ... even as just a movie ... rewatching Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven instead -- director's cut of latter is pretty good. (even though it was filmed in Morocco and Israel looks more like the Sahara desert...LOL
It'll be fun if you know it'll be pretty loose with its history.
I don't see how it could be as good as the 1970 Waterloo, although the time span is different.
I mean Rod Steiger just nailed the roll. Not so sure about Joaquin Phoenix.
I mean Rod Steiger just nailed the roll. Not so sure about Joaquin Phoenix.
Saw this last night and I wouldn’t say it was worth the price of admission. Reportedly he’s going to release a 4.5 hour cut on Apple TV+ so I may give it a try but I thought it was pretty awful. Quite a mean spirited film, they skip from the royalist uprising straight to Egypt with slight mention of Italy and it’s never really shown nor explained as to WHY he was such a beloved military and political leader in France. The battles are meh and I don’t even know why they showed Borodino at all other than to highlight how many soldiers died.
Napoleon himself was portrayed as an odd, mumbling, borderline mentally ill ego-maniac. In fact we get little insight into Napoleon himself beyond he was obsessed with Josephine, who felt more like the main character in this film.
It all felt really rushed, but when you try to cover 20+ years of one of the most turbulent times in European history into 2.5 hours that was inevitable I guess.
Napoleon himself was portrayed as an odd, mumbling, borderline mentally ill ego-maniac. In fact we get little insight into Napoleon himself beyond he was obsessed with Josephine, who felt more like the main character in this film.
It all felt really rushed, but when you try to cover 20+ years of one of the most turbulent times in European history into 2.5 hours that was inevitable I guess.
I kind of lost interest when I saw some video where Napoleon is leading two cavalry charges.
I wasn’t going to comment on the accuracy of the battles because it’s well recorded that it isn’t accurate but I wasn’t prepared for how far off the mark they were. They basically just made it up