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It was really good! rip-roaring even! amazing sound design! I liked it!

too bad about the title ("master and commander: the far side of the world"), this is really the year of shitty movie titles isn't it?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been meaning to read the book(s) for some time now, in part because my Dad is a fan. How does the movie compare?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't read them.

but the movie pays really really great attention to visual & aural detail in a way I'd imagine would please fans of the books. it's pretty great-looking too.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

From the trailers it just seemed like it was about Russell Crowe furiously waddling his way from one end of the boat to the other.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the advance reviews on this are extremely positive

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I really don't know anything about this movie. I saw RC on the cover of Time , though. That was funny.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

as they should be, spencer. there's a lot to like about this movie.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

what a trite thing for me to say. but let me say that one thing I really liked about this movie was the fact that it took place in such a limited space--I'd say 80% of it is set on this one vessel, and you never see the ship they're pursuing/fighting with from it's point of view.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmm...so Das Boot but on the surface. (In a way. I also think Jurgen Prochnow could take Crowe eight ways to Sunday, obv.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

russell crowe is a fanny.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The title sounds like its based on a videogame.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Or a BDSM video.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagining "Master and Servant" by Depeche as the theme song to this movie makes me happy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

jurgen prochnow might (and I say MIGHT) be able to take russell crowe but director-wise, peter weir kicks wolfgang petersen's ass any day of the week.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm...there's a better TS, Das Boot vs. Gallipoli.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Russell Crowe would make a great Duncan Idaho.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

thing is petersen has "das boot" and then... "air force one!" "in the line of fire!" "enemy mine!"*

now I've never seen his german movies so what do I know, but weir has a much better good-to-stinker ratio from where I'm sitting.

* actually a sentimental favourite

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Russell Crowe would make a great Duncan Idaho.

Hm...he would, actually. Though he would have been better in the followup films that never were.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(air force one is my sentimental petersen fav but i have semi-high hopes that Troy will replace it)

who is still green-lighting these double titled movies?? the good-to-stinker rundown of THEM can't be very pretty

― jones (actual), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

blame pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl, which convinced execs that nautical adventures should be twice-monickered

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

that title's interesting in that not a single word of it belongs anywhere near the title of a movie

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe the time is finally right for remo williams to continue his adventure

― jones (actual), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

they missed an opportunity a few years back when the washington monument was all scaffolded up

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

fred ward where are you?!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously, I felt pretty betrayed by the dude for a few years post-remo

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Though he would have been better in the followup films that never were.

exactly. and y'know, New Line is trying to work out a new franchise....

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. A third take on Dune, though? ;-) Personally I think they should get a hold of co-LOTR writer Phillipa Bowen and take her up on an idea to do the Earthsea books...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

please let this beat the matrix this weekend please please

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The Patrick O'Brian books (the ones I've read at least) are really good. I'm very excited about this movie--the trailer has been the highlight of lots of crappy movies I've seen recently.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

eighteen years pass...

too bad about the title ("master and commander: the far side of the world"), this is really the year of shitty movie titles isn't it?
― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:31 (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

s1utsky NOTM

― mark s, Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:13 (four years ago)

(i just discovered this was on disney channel)

― mark s, Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:14 (four years ago)

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― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:26 (four years ago)

he lives on youtube now iirc

― mark s, Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:28 (four years ago)

four months pass...

https://superyaki.com/products/oceans-are-battlefields

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:34 (three years ago)

five months pass...

is russell crowe anything like this in any other movie?

― mark s, Monday, 1 May 2023 19:38 (three years ago)

Cinderella Man maybe?

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 1 May 2023 19:45 (three years ago)

i will check it out

― mark s, Monday, 1 May 2023 19:48 (three years ago)

one year passes...

i'm on the second of the books, they are a lot goofier than i realized. this one has jack aubrey disguised as a bear to escape france with maturin as his keeper. they are very good books though i tend to glaze over during the more technical parts.

― na (NA), Wednesday, 12 February 2025 16:04 (one year ago)

nine months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r-VRl8xuE

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 9 December 2025 19:03 (ten months ago)

they are a lot goofier than i realized. this one has jack aubrey disguised as a bear to escape france with maturin as his keeper.

nb: this is by far the goofiest piece of plotting in the whole series

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 December 2025 20:50 (ten months ago)

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