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Post by Brother Fease on Feb 16, 2024 0:53:25 GMT
Napoleon is coming to AppleTV on March 1st.
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Post by ibbi on Feb 23, 2024 22:23:23 GMT
Top this, you grizzled old fuck. The one true Bonaparte returns!
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Post by Brother Fease on Mar 9, 2024 15:16:39 GMT
a 4-hour cut might connect more narrative dots and help the thing feel less like a bloated highlights reel sorely lacking in narrative direction and character development (especially for Josephine), but unless time machines exist nothing can repair the damage Ridley Scott did to the film in casting Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon. Setting aside the fact that he's miscast even though he is (he's as convincing a legendary French general as Henry Fonda was an aristocratic Russian bookworm in King Vidor's War and Peace), Phoenix sounds bored in almost all his line readings and presents Napoleon as an old, tired and charmless horndog. This is the least interesting Napoleon ever put to screen and spending 160 minutes with him was like being stuck on my own Saint Helena so I can't imagine what 4 hours would feel like. The performance is unsalvageable and by extension the movie, despite Scott's efforts during the battle scenes and the crafts departments putting their hearts and souls into the VFX, sound, wardrobe, and sets. These are the best costumes of Janty Yates' career and they're wasted on this excruciating picture. This is precisely my take.
The crafts are incredible -- production design, costume, visual effects, sound. However, the film is a gigantic bore. None of the characters felt real. I wished they cast younger actors for the roles. The film flowed from scene to scene without much rhythm and felt rushed.
I do feel like the film would be better if they made into a miniseries. There's just too much content being pushed into its less than 3 hour run time.
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