Napoleon - (Ridley Scott, November 22nd, 2023 - Apple) • Page 5

I think the lack of drama might be down to Scott wanting to cover many different events, and keep the focus on Napoleon himself and allow us to see how childish, and impulsive, the man was, but also at how brilliant (most of the time) he was at war strategy. I guess there wasn’t one single event in his life that really dramatically changed things, where you could have introduced some drama. Although I guess you could argue the failed Russia campaign was that; amazing how little time they spent on that.

Then again, we’re supposedly getting a 4-hour cut of the film when it hits streaming, which might fill in many of the gaps, and therefore bring more life and drama to many of the events. This might be a situation like what happened to Kingdom of Heaven, where the theatre version was panned, but the director’s cut was almost a completely different film. Guess we’ll see

 

I went to see it yesterday and left like 20 minutes in. I was not in the mood for a boring 3 hour movie set in France in the 1700s.

 

should have known what the movie was ahead of time dumbass

 

Damn Ian don’t gotta roast grimace like that

 

how do you think they make the shake

 

I thought it was about the at the drive in song napoleon solo, my bad!

 

Didn’t like this much, also, I got a weird Michael Scott vibe from Joaquin Phoenix’s performance.

 

This is how Clooney got cast as Batman

 

Need to watch the 4 hour cut, this didn’t really feel cohesive at all.

 

I agree he tried to cover too much. If you want focus on the character over the whole time line, historical epic is the wrong genre, you need to barry lyndon it.

 

Might be a future stoner classic

 

‘twas a lil stoned myself when I saw it. perhaps that’s another reason I enjoyed it

 

Now I want to see it

 

Only movie I ever walked out of was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

 

Yeah, I think this would have worked much better as a 10-part miniseries

 

Plenty of issues, but I enjoyed the hell out of this.

 

This and “SUBLIME!” from Barbie are for sure the hardest I’ve laughed in a theater this year.

 

This is out there now, so VOD release is most likely tomorrow

 

Any word yet on the director's cut