Is this the Joaquin Phoenix movie where he plays a weird loner who is isolated from the rest of society? I really like that one.
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I haven't seen a single still of this movie where Joaquin Phoenix is wearing anything other than a contemptuous frown. Wasn't napoleon supposed to be charismatic and funny and shit? Who would follow this dour asshole into battle
Yeah thats another point i hadnt thought off, Joaquin phoenix seems bored as fuck even when in battle, its fucking bizarre
Ridley Scott perplexes me. I like a large portion of his movies (I even liked the "The Last Duel") but the dude also puts out some just really D-grade stuff. I haven't heard many good things about Napoleon from the Internet nor my movie friends in real life.
Midley Scott
I remember this movie's cultural impact was huge. It took a decade for society to stop quoting it, but only a week for the quoting to start.
It took a decade for society to stop quoting it,
the movie just came out??
I think she thinks we're talking about Napoleon Dynamite
she is a prophet, let her cook
I don't mean any of this in a good way.
I saw it a few days ago. It feels like a really long series of sketches/short films. There is like no coherent plot to the movie as a whole. They try to shoehorn in way too many historical characters/events, which is weird because they really do not care about historical accuracy. If you do not already know a lot about Napoleon it will be impossible to follow the plot. If you do know a lot about Napoleon you'll just notice how the movie is wrong all the time.
It's pretty funny, sometimes even intentionally, but I can't remember the last time I saw such a mess.
Also: minus points for making Waterloo so boring. It didn't have to be, regardless of the movie's other faults, but it was.
Supposedly there's a four and a half hour cut coming out on some streaming service in a few months.
I'm not sure what the movies like since I haven't seen it and might not at this point, but it could be another Kingdom of Heaven situation?
isnt it already like 3 hours?
"auteur" directors stop releasing longer cuts. please trust your editor.
I don't mind some stories taking longer to tell, so long as it's good.
Yep, the historians saying the movie sucked take another W
I preferred the prequel where everyone voted for Pedro
tbh the pro-hitler shit is not that new, Waterloo (1970) portrayed Napoleon as some Mussolini figure
Napoleon as proto-Hitler does kind of make sense
I never understood that comparison to be honest, i really can’t see any similarities between the two of them. To me it seems like a really weird anglo-saxon post ww2 academic invention.
I think it's definitely overstated, but I think there's something to it. It's not unassailable, but "Bonapartism" seems like a useful analytical concept.
No youre right bonapartism is an actual field of study, i actually find it quite useful to understand early 19th century western europe.
Was it better than Oppenheimer? Because I can't believe that trash was critically acclaimed, well I can but I don't want to.
that the one with walking fenix
FOR AIUR!
There's a Napoleon movie???