I’ll wait for it on the boob tube, i can pause for potty breaks.
Seems like a bore.
I’m going to wait to see it on my feeds. Flintlock battles and cavalry may be worth sitting for three hours.
I’ve heard Scott cut like an hour and a half for the theatrical release, that will be added back in for the streaming release.
So maybe it will get better with the cuts added back in. Maybe not. Ridley Scott’s batting average ain’t great lately.
It also portrays the myth of him shooting a canon at the nose of the Sphinx, rather than the reality of him bringing a small army of 160 scientists, historians, artists, writers and archeologists to Egypt to carefully document and study the place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_de_l%27%C3%89gypte
They produced a fine 37 volume book of Egypt. The illustrations are still commonly used to this day.
But the myth is that he shot the nose off the Sphinx.
I read that article a few days ago and decided the film is not worth seeing. Instead, I ordered a DVD of a documentary on him from the library. Probably not as exciting as a film but certainly more informative.
He also destroyed Alien
I do not understand why Napoleon was not played by a black gay woman with a lice haircut.
All these directors should have retired 20 years ago. Now woke infects everything they do and turns it into crap.
Not only that, the pathological lying of Hollywood renders nearly all historically based films fatally flawed as soon as the script is written.
They take truly interesting history and invert it into whatever utterly predictable trope that is currently trending.
In the end, he was a loser.
Little men have a problem making credible movies of, or acting as, or writing for, the big men of the past.
Even the good actors come off as a little light for the hard men they are portraying in a lot of movies.
We saw this film during it’s opening weekend. Ugh. They turned Napoleon into a total cuck. The trailers I saw were all about the battle scenes, but there was much less of that in the actual movie and way too much Josephine. And, of course, they had to add token blacks. If I were watching a movie set in the past in an African village, I would not expect to see whites so why they do this in reverse is total woke nonsense. I loved Gladiator but Napoleon is definitely not one of Scott’s best films.
I saw this movie about a week ago. It was dull, confusing, and full of things that a person would normally want to leave out of his life’s story.
I saw it. At the conclusion my wife and I said, meh. Large portions of the movie were dull. Phoenix’s portrayal of Napoleon was small. Like Nappy was just another guy. Josephine was not hot enough to invoke all the passion. Nappy could have done better.
Wait until it comes to CATV streaming, for a ‘pause’, whiz-break and a fresh, cold brewski.
Scott should have directed a dramatic miniseries with relative unknowns.
Or selected a chapter in his life where both are protaganists in their rise to power.
As it is, it’s a sprawling and aimless movie. Everyone in that movie has made or been in far better ones. Scott made The Duelists, so you know he can tell a tight story set during the Napolenic Wars.
Napoleon was a scoundrel. Swept to power by a movement made to end monarchies, he made himself a monarch. Later he abandoned the defeated Grande Armee to freeze in the Russian wastes, while he was chauffeured swiftly back to Paris in his fancy coach.
The British eventually poisoned him, of course. And years later, somehow Napoleon III was given a particularly skittish horse to ride while out with a small British patrol in Natal. The rest of the party escaped. His horse escaped. He didn’t.
A pity that Stanley Kubrick never got to make his version of Napoleon.