dusadomovine
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What was Ridley Scott's agenda with this movie?
I found the movie quite disappointing due to the SPIN. The movie was visually interesting, battle scenes fantastic and the acting very good but it was more a relationship soap opera movie - focussing a lot on Josephine and unnecessary sex scenes. There is not historical evidence that Napoleon left Egypt because Josephine was sleeping around and Napoleon also had many lovers. The story flow is very jumpy and and lacks any good insights into Napoleon's character - just that he was a "toxic male." All context of Napoleon's military campaigns is missing. This movie is not a "man-flick". Maybe the movie should have been called "Josephine".
As far as I can tell, many facts presented were true. I did not know that Napoleon had Black officers in his French army. There was much lacking. Why are all the social reforms and the origins of the Napoleonic Code missing? It lacks any insight into his charisma. Due to the cherry-picking of issues to present in the movie, the presentation of Napoleon is historically not true.
Joaquin Phoenix is the wrong actor for Napoleon. In 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, Napoleon was 20 years old. Joaquin Phoenix is now 49 years old.
I found the movie quite disappointing due to the SPIN. The movie was visually interesting, battle scenes fantastic and the acting very good but it was more a relationship soap opera movie - focussing a lot on Josephine and unnecessary sex scenes. There is not historical evidence that Napoleon left Egypt because Josephine was sleeping around and Napoleon also had many lovers. The story flow is very jumpy and and lacks any good insights into Napoleon's character - just that he was a "toxic male." All context of Napoleon's military campaigns is missing. This movie is not a "man-flick". Maybe the movie should have been called "Josephine".
As far as I can tell, many facts presented were true. I did not know that Napoleon had Black officers in his French army. There was much lacking. Why are all the social reforms and the origins of the Napoleonic Code missing? It lacks any insight into his charisma. Due to the cherry-picking of issues to present in the movie, the presentation of Napoleon is historically not true.
Joaquin Phoenix is the wrong actor for Napoleon. In 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, Napoleon was 20 years old. Joaquin Phoenix is now 49 years old.
First: Why do Arrogant Americans with bad attitudes like to go around the world and treat everyone in a condescending manner? For example FBI International and now NCIS Sydney?
The original NCIS was great. NCIS: Los Angeles was not even half as good, NCIS: New Orleans sucked more, NCIS: Hawaii sucked even more, and NCIS: Sydney sucks the most.
The writing is shallow and the acting is dry. Agent Michelle Mackey is not even close to be as interesting as L. J Gibbs. While Gibbs is confident and competent, Mackey has only a back attitude.
I will not watch more of this.
I can't see this show lasting more than one season.
The original NCIS was great. NCIS: Los Angeles was not even half as good, NCIS: New Orleans sucked more, NCIS: Hawaii sucked even more, and NCIS: Sydney sucks the most.
The writing is shallow and the acting is dry. Agent Michelle Mackey is not even close to be as interesting as L. J Gibbs. While Gibbs is confident and competent, Mackey has only a back attitude.
I will not watch more of this.
I can't see this show lasting more than one season.
The last ep of season one was excellent! Sadly, the first nine eps of season two were unpalatable with ep 9, the singing and dancing ep being total barf. Like Pike says in this episode "Sometimes a monster is just a monster."
The whole season should have been about the Gorn. Finally we have an interesting problem to solve. Finally there is action and heroism - the stuff we Sci-Fi'ers want.
What I want to know is how does a reptilian species with hands for killing develop such high tech? Next season we might get an answer but if we extrapolate from the past into the future, ep one of season three will be interesting and then the rest of the season will be vomitous.
The whole season should have been about the Gorn. Finally we have an interesting problem to solve. Finally there is action and heroism - the stuff we Sci-Fi'ers want.
What I want to know is how does a reptilian species with hands for killing develop such high tech? Next season we might get an answer but if we extrapolate from the past into the future, ep one of season three will be interesting and then the rest of the season will be vomitous.