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Heart of Oak

Posted by Ray on 04/22/04 at 01:08 AM • Entertainment • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink


This is the third viewing I've had of the film.

Damn is Master and Commander good.

I appreciate the difficulty of adapting novels beloved by fans of the genre to the screen: too much detail and you piss off people who never read the novels; too much exposition (to get the rest of the audience to figure out what the hell is going on) and you get the Napoleonic Wars for first graders, as insulting to fans of O'Brian as Pirates of the Carribean was to anyone who takes their naval history seriously. (OK, I thought it was a fun film...Babe du jour Keira Knightley sauced up the screen pretty well.)

I think Peter Weir has struck the right balance with this one.

More detailed thoughts as I go through the extras on disc 2. Now I've got to reconnect my subwoofer...

The lowest price I found was at evil Walmart ($C34.83)
Raging Kraut

  1. I think it was going for about $25 out here.

    Posted by  on  04/22  at  02:16 AM

  2. Greg, you're thinking of the regular single disc - not the 2-disc collectors set...

    Posted by Ray  on  04/22  at  08:59 AM

  3. Greg: I see the effects of sleep deprivation upon you. Has your baby begun teething yet? If not, just wait....

    Posted by Rue  on  04/22  at  09:19 AM

  4. I just got it from Netflix today. I can't wait to watch it tonight.

    What did you think of the A&E Horatio Hornblower series?

    Posted by  on  04/22  at  05:40 PM

  5. I thought the Hornblower series was great, some of the best TV even if you aren't a fan of the genre, and maybe truer to the source material than Master and Commander, but then again they had a lot longer time to tell the story. Feature films have a tendency to push the high points, when O'Brian was all about detail, detail, detail.

    Posted by Ray  on  04/23  at  01:00 AM



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