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OT Master and Commander
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Originally posted by donutsrule
I nearly forgot: The movie has a truly horrific pun. Be warned!
Dunno about anyone else, but I wanted to punch the doctor in the head. Not sure why though. Maybe everyone deserves a punch in the head at some time or another.
The movie could have used a few more salvos of cannon fire though.
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You just want to create a concussive head injury so you can try out that trepanning saw on someone's skull.
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If they made movies like that more often, I'd be going to the theatre more often. Still, the lovely smiles on those nice South American ladies would have been greatly enhanced by them wearing grass skirts and nothing else, if you know what I'm saying.
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One with that title and no women would induce a lot of :barf: from me, that's for sure.
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I would recommend starting from the beginning, because a lot of main characters stick around and progress through the stories. Also, something that's kind of neat with the movie (which has basis in material from much later in the series) is that there's evidence of the previous stories in the makeup. Scars that the crewmembers have, and especially that Jack has, happened in earlier stories. For instance, you may notice (If you look carefully) that one of Jack's ears is a bit mishapen...you'll find out where/how that happened in the earlier books. 
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If you haven't seen the movie yet, you may want to skip over this.
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I thought I would comment on three critiques that I have heard about the movie:
1) The "French" warship looks too much like a US Constitution class frigate.
2) No one would be crazy enough to order a 28 gun British frigate to chase after a US Constitution class frigate
3) The boarding action is portrayed incorrectly. The fight was always over actually getting onto the vessel. No, crew would actually allow you to get your feet on board without a brutal fight. It is kind of like the calvary letting the indians climb into the fort before letting them have it.
The first point is a production deviation, in the novel the ship was the US frigate Norfolk enroute to harass the British whaling fleet in the South Pacific. But, who wants to see good friends blasting each other; it is always more fun to pick on our former allies the French. The second point is a bit of poetic license; the author admits that he was streching history a bit on this one, his tenth book in the series. While the third issue may have been a due to the cinematography. It would have been pretty hard and expensive to photograph the boarding action across the length of gunwales of both ships, and harder still to distinguish friend from foe in such a fracas. Perhaps it was better to just skip over it, and fudge it a little.
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I thought I would comment on three critiques that I have heard about the movie:
1) The "French" warship looks too much like a US Constitution class frigate.
2) No one would be crazy enough to order a 28 gun British frigate to chase after a US Constitution class frigate
3) The boarding action is portrayed incorrectly. The fight was always over actually getting onto the vessel. No, crew would actually allow you to get your feet on board without a brutal fight. It is kind of like the calvary letting the indians climb into the fort before letting them have it.
The first point is a production deviation, in the novel the ship was the US frigate Norfolk enroute to harass the British whaling fleet in the South Pacific. But, who wants to see good friends blasting each other; it is always more fun to pick on our former allies the French. The second point is a bit of poetic license; the author admits that he was streching history a bit on this one, his tenth book in the series. While the third issue may have been a due to the cinematography. It would have been pretty hard and expensive to photograph the boarding action across the length of gunwales of both ships, and harder still to distinguish friend from foe in such a fracas. Perhaps it was better to just skip over it, and fudge it a little.
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Read from first to last if you can, there is a story line to follow. I saw the movie Sunday and just finished re-reading the first book this evening, I had forgotten how good they are. I missed some and plan to read thru all 20 in order now that my appetite is whetted.
Dr. Maturin gets a little short changed and over simplified in the movie, he is much more than just a sawbones in the books, and he doesn't whine or throw hissy fits either.
Dr. Maturin gets a little short changed and over simplified in the movie, he is much more than just a sawbones in the books, and he doesn't whine or throw hissy fits either.
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As I recall, the good Doctor is deadly with blade or pistol and a part-time (but professional) spy to boot.
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I seem to recall a few...
Of course, we have to keep in mind that tone of voice is not something easily conveyed in a book, and different people will have different ones in their heads as they read. The Doctor does often get frustrated with Jack, which is not unbelievable, as it is tough to be far and away the smartest person in a room who is nonetheless not the one in power.
However, he does slay a few people in the movie, and performs surgery on himself, so I don't think he comes off TO badly.
