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I have seen the original and I think I can hold off on the other two lol

After seeing Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One this weekend the tonal whiplash from this trailer was something I guess if you're going to go for pure fantasy cheese you might as well commit 110%

You must have watched a different film. At times the movie displays an outright disinterest in much of his career other than as a cliffs notes

It's a film that has a very particular take on Napoleon and history

Mentioned it elsewhere but the film felt like a greatest hits tour of Napoleon instead of a meaningful examination of any part of his career. Gotta touch on all the big parts (Toulon! Shooting cannons at a mob! Egypt! Coup! and so on) but the result is we never get a good sense of the weight or impact of many things. The coup planners putting the wolf (Napoleon) in charge of the henhouse is a particularly fascinating aspect of the transition period of the French Revolutionary Wars that has a parallel with at least one other more recent powerful country in distress but we just get an abbreviated couple of coup scenes that focus more on comedy than anything else, then a little bit later an oblique suggestion that Napoleon should just crown himself, followed up by him doing that

I'd recommend checking out Waterloo from 1970. It's got pacing issues in the first half as it builds up to the battle, but there's some pretty excellent staging of the battle sequences in the final hour. Rod Steiger and Plummer are solid as Napoleon and Wellington respectively. The action in this film is pretty good, but with Waterloo there's a couple extremely basic errors that have no bearing on the movie in and of itself, but still bugged me a decent amount

"You think you're so great because you have boats!" "Destiny has brought me this lamb chop" Even after reading reviews I wasn't quite prepared for this movie to be 150+ minutes of Napoleon being an insecure horndog bozo

Saw Napoleon in IMAX this evening. Theater I would say was 60-70% full. Movie was definitely stripped down a lot in the editing room and plays more as a greatest hits compilation of a career than a meaningful narrative. The film randomly skips ahead years at a time to pay lip service to various points in his generalship or rule before occasionally lingering in certain periods. Some characters who have a solid presence in the first half utterly stop talking in the second even though the camera still shows them prominently now and then in the background of some scenes. Battle scenes are visceral and exciting even though there's some basic unforced errors made history wise which have zero effect on its quality as a film but which bugged me to no end because they were simple things depicted completely wrong.

Seeing this tonight in IMAX Watched Waterloo (1970) for the first time last night. First half of the movie is fairly glacial in pacing but the second half is a lot more invigorating with some stellar cinematography, sound, and staging for the battle itself. Nothing quite like the days when you could borrow 15-20,000 soldiers to be extras in your battle scenes and have the Soviet government basically remodel an entire swath of land to fit your terrain needs

Most video games, especially RPGs like Baldurs Gate series, are better suited as long form adaptations. The first game I could see squishing into a single movie because the actual plot is pretty threadbare, but the other 2 would require a good deal more time to tell right

Hey if the power of wanting was sufficient (I want it too) the Phillies would have won the World Series this year.

I'd love another, but even with Wizards of the Coast co-financing this as a loss leader and no COVID protocol inflation this time, the first movie still needed imo at least 300m WW to justify a sequel.

Entertaining despite several obvious and glaring issues and definitely being cut up in the editing room. If that was the villain plot and motivation they were going to go with then it would have made far more sense to bring Jude Law back in that role.

Studio Publicity Departments seeing the news of the deal roll in

You can introduce Doom without him being the main villain or even a villain for the movie

Cats do make anything better. Except Cats the Musical.

I feel nothing except burning anger

Any thoughts on likely next manager Bob Melvin?

I liked this overall, but sizable sections of it felt static and low energy, with a "so this happened, then this happened, then this happened, and finally that happened" feel. Certain parts of it really pick up and get riveting, but it at times it feels overly drawn out and relies on the actors to keep you involved.

Miss Minutes certainly had herself a moment

I know people attribute a lot to Feige but Boseman's cancer is definitely a bold claim

My opinion on the Star Wars shows so far Andor- A Mando Season 2- A- Mando Season 1- B+ Mando Season 3- B Ahsoka- B- Book of Boba Fett- C+ Obi-Wan- C Curious how Skeleton Crew shakes out since it takes place in the Mandoverse and while Jon Watts doesn't scream excellence, he's assembled a pretty interesting crew of directors for the show. Also roguish Jude Law is usually a plus. Acolyte is the big question mark, since it is the first live action Star Wars to take place outside of the Skywalker Saga and if it hits, it will go a long way to convince the higher-ups and Lucasfilm to maybe start expanding the series outside of a roughly 60-year time period.

@Porthos important question for the next couple weeks Do you support 1) Venomous rival snakes 2) Texas cops 3) Bangers of trashcans 4) Liberty and Freedom and Brotherly Love

Do you have some inside access to the making of this show that none of us have? We've seen next to nothing about it.