"You don't criticize Russell Crowe's movies, ya testicle!"
Posted on 01/18/2021 1:50:34 AM PST by C19fan
Common Core was the Death Knell for our Republic.
You forgot to add with an overwhelming sense of self worth because their participation medals for tee ball went to their heads.
The only thing wrong with the movie is that there was no sequel.
I did not read the books. But I own the movie. It is a plodding plot which seems to end with a sequel in mind. I gave it a ‘3’ on a scale of ‘5.’
O’Brian.
“Master and Commander”
Excellent movie. No nudity, no cursing. Same with Gladiator. Two of the last three times I was at a movie theater. Last movie at a theater was the remake of True Grit.
Now it is all comic book superhero nonsense of which I never had an interest in even as a kid 65 years ago.
That narrator was Ric Jerom.
His work on the Aubry/Maturin series was nothing short of a tour-de-force.
Love this movie, own the DVD and have it on the DVR.
Have you seen the mini series Longitude? Much better at “the interest many of the characters in science reflecting the new age and the influence of the Scientific Revolution.
good movie. the books were better - aubrey/maturin series by patrick obrien. widely accepted as the very best of the genre
I believe the series was twenty novels, twenty-one if you count a final unfinished book that was published as-is.
They were great reads, I think I’ve read the entire cycle 6 or 7 times so far.
O’Brian is a descendant of the Commodore Anson who took the Manilla treasure galleon “Covadonga” in 1740, after sailing around Cape Horn. One of four the British took in three and a half centuries. Hi
Anson was later First Sea Lord and O’Brian was born in the manor house Anson built with his share of the treasure.
***I liked the movie, even though it wasn’t exactly true to the book. Movies almost never are.***
I read lots of books in my younger days and then saw the movies. Often the movie was NOTHING like the book.
THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957 movie) is nothing like The GUN by C.s. Forester which the movie is based upon.
Same for SPARTACUS.
Often the movie producers would buy up the rights to a book and just use the name. Then they would write an adaption of their movie script for publication completely different from the original novel.
"You don't criticize Russell Crowe's movies, ya testicle!"
***who took the Manila treasure galleon***
I read the book Manila Galleon by F. Van Wyck Mason over sixty years ago! definitely adult reading but good!
loved sea stories back then. Also read the Captain Blood trilogy and the Beat To Quarters trilogy. Kept me sane during my teen years.
Last sea stories I read a few years ago were THE LOST GOD and Other Adventure Stories by John Russell.
And of course Moby Dick and other stories by Herman Melville.
Well done! You win 10 points, FRiend. :)
There’s lots of us here that really love Venom, but probably few know this trivia.
Big fan of the book series and the movie. The movie is not based on one book but of bits and bobs of two or three. With so many books in the series, the possibility of a sequel was always there, but with the passage of time, I see it as unlikely. The ship it was filmed on is in San Diego, if you’d like to take a tour.
All that said, what was the criticism of the movie?
I loved that movie.
Excellent movie.
100% AGREE. It’s one of my favorite all time movies. I’ve seen it many times.
ARE them his brains?
In any dispute between celebrities, I generally side with the lesser of two weevils. So far as the movie goes, it’s one of my favorites - great characters, well-acted, and a combination of plot and action scenes sufficient to hold one’s attention.
I agree. I was so sorry when I got to the end of it!
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