12 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

For me his Commodus is the best dramatized depiction of the historic emperor I could ever imagine.  I love it!

He's really great in GLADIATOR but same for Russell Crowe. Period cinema at the finest.

I don't think Scotts intention of NAPOLEON is historical accuracy but more how gossip and rumors shape that history.

4 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

I don't think Scotts intention of NAPOLEON is historical accuracy but more how gossip and rumors shape that history.

I've looked a bit at the film already and my first impressions just from skimming around:

1. J. Phoenix looks exhausted & defeated the whole time and looks out of place.  His voice is very tired sounding as well.

2.  Very good props but the filming is shot 'very close'  and there is a lack of feeling of the expanse.  Everything is all clustered together. 

3. The film looks to suffer from "final cut" issues like Blade Runner and most seriously, "Kingdom of Heaven".   As in the film itself is naturally 3 + hours long but Scott had to remove critical content for the theatrical cut.  So it jumps very rapidly throughout Napoleon's career.

4. There seems to be lack of coverage of Napoleon's massive social impact in europe, which any balanced biopic should focus on.

5.  Josephine and Napoleon look like an odd couple and out of place.  Like a tired old man with a young woman.

Otherwise it looks very interesting and I'll watch it when I get a real copy.

The napoleon war films made in Russia and Waterloo (1970) are generally considered the best:;

Ridley Scott says His 4-hour Director’s Cut of ‘Napoleon’ to be Released on Apple TV+ — World of Reel

Ah, makes sense now.  I think I will wait for the 4 1/2 hour cut.  The 2 1/2 hour theatrical cut has so much missing content.

39 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

3. The film looks to suffer from "final cut" issues like Blade Runner and most seriously, "Kingdom of Heaven".  

I agree. The DC of KoH was an entirely different movie.

I think Napoleon + Josephine being an "odd couple" is the heart of the movie 😄

4 1/2 hours - but people think Killers of the Flower Moon or Avatar and The Irishmen were long? lol

6 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

I agree. The DC of KoH was an entirely different movie.

 

I think Napoleon + Josephine being an "odd couple" is the heart of the movie 😄

 

4 1/2 hours - but people think Killers of the Flower Moon or Avatar and The Irishmen were long? lol

This is what their portraits looked like (in reality Josphine was older than Napoleon):  

Cutting off 2 hours of a 4 1/2 hour movie is really way too much.  I strongly suspect that the 'final cut' will be a much better film like Kingdom of  Heaven.

Cutting down a movie to please the crowd (who's still not pleased most audience reactions of Napoleon are very medicore lol) is mostly a bad idea and not helping a movie/storyline/character development at all. I think I only liked once a theatrical cut better than the director's cut. Even the unofficial extended cut of TITANIC is much better than Camerons offical version he clings on since forever while making one stupid cut after another of those god awful boring Avatar movies.

On 11/20/2023 at 8:12 PM, Jade Bahr said:

I can't 

 

‘Napoleon’ Opens Big in France, Despite Nasty Reviews

Vive la France 😄

BASED af

On 11/26/2023 at 2:15 PM, Jade Bahr said:

‘Napoleon’ Opens Big in France, Despite Nasty Reviews

Vive la France 😄

Good. It seems that the self-loathing agenda that the socialists have kept pushing in France for years is not working any more.

France was once one of the most prosperous countries and one of the biggest military powers in history. It's about time we celebrate it.

And it's the same for most Western countries. This civilisation had some of the best ingredients for prosperity.

Just now, Enrico_sw said:

France was once one of the most prosperous countries and one of the biggest military powers in history.

BTW, both of these things are linked: you can't have prosperity in a weak country. Military strength ensures peace and the prosperity of intellectuals, artists, etc.

5 hours ago, Prettyphile said:

BASED af

 

McGregor is great.

Martial artists and fighters are a rare breed that still has balls. The "Deconstruction" will never work on us.

I've never felt some much anger in France. The country is boiling.

When free men have balls, tyrants get their asses kicked.

On 11/24/2023 at 10:54 AM, Jade Bahr said:

Cutting down a movie to please the crowd (who's still not pleased most audience reactions of Napoleon are very medicore lol) is mostly a bad idea and not helping a movie/storyline/character development at all. I think I only liked once a theatrical cut better than the director's cut. Even the unofficial extended cut of TITANIC is much better than Camerons offical version he clings on since forever while making one stupid cut after another of those god awful boring Avatar movies.

The lord of the rings trilogy (director's cut) is better than the theatrical as well.

The performance of Avatar 2 was quite weird to me.  I thought it was bomb but it turned out to be a hit.  The thing with Avatar 1 is that after the film was over nobody cared about Avatar.  The same thing happened with 2.  Overall I would prefer if Cameon did other projects. Avatar 1 was a rather dull film from a character point of view.

With napolen, Scott said that the cut content has a lot of Josephine stuff.

I looked up Napoleon & Josephine's relationship and it is evident that Josephine was quite a seductress and social climber.  She had affairs and did not like Napoleon as much as he did her.  She also had fertility issues. He wrote her a lot of letters but she did not return the favor.  It is possible that her cheating was also motivated by finding a fall-back option in case Napoleon was defeated.  When he found out she was cheating on him he acquired several mistresses..

I watched Fury Road in the theaters and loved it but unfortunately the next installment looks off.  The main issue is the whole film looks like too much CGI.  the original was shot in a way that the CGI looked minimal.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan got old !

queen R is so cute with the crown