Master and Commander....

[kyrielle]

[Minor discussion of a scene toward the end of the movie, behind a cut-tag. May or may not count as a spoiler.]

This was about what I expected, and I liked it. A good film. Longer than suited me - there are entire scenes that could have been shortened immensely, and I'd have gotten just as much from them. But I also know I'm not a very visual person. During the last battle in particular, I just gave up and let it flow past me, because most of the shots didn't last long enough to let me recognize the people in them anyway, so who cared who fell down or didn't? I am pretty sure you weren't always supposed to be able to tell, but except when the captain was there, or the kid who took command of the ship while the captain was boarding, I couldn't tell at all. And frankly, if I can't tell what's happening? The scene went on way too long to just convey "fog of war" and "brutal". It got boring, in its own way.

There are a number of reasons I don't watch very many movies, and the fact that even most good ones feel like a bit of a waste of time to me, coupled with the fact that visual is not my fastest sense to sort things out on, is a big one of them. But I'm glad I watched the movie; it was good. I can't point to a flaw. It was just...a movie.

Comments

[pheon.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the movie, but also thought it overlong. But that may be because they were faithful to the book. I remember reading one of them a number of years ago --- though it wasn't The Far Side of the World --- and it was overlong.