Eλευθερί
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jan 14, 2021 3:55:57 GMT
Spectacular costumes and settings ruined by miscasting and disengaged acting.
6.5/10
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Post by sjg on Jan 14, 2021 8:21:01 GMT
5/10
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Post by Vits on Jan 14, 2021 11:25:22 GMT
THE THREE MUSKETEERS 1948 started as a light swashbuckling movie but, at some point, it became dark and almost gritty (I thought that trend started in this century). Gene Kelly's performance is good and the fight sequences are great, but the villain isn't very threatening and the romance is boring. 5/10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 1993 4/10 THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK 7/10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 2004 6/10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 2011 is a steampunk version of the tale. That sounds exaggerated, but I prefer that than a pointless remake that doesn't add something new. Unfortunately, ATHOS, PORTOS, ARAMIS & D'ARTAGNAN don't get a lot of protagonism for most of the 1st hour. Whenever they do get it, their friendship (the most important aspect of the story) isn't developed at all. You know who gets more protagonism? MILADY DE WINTER, who now is a modern kick-ass version of the spy she's always been. This wouldn't have bothered me if she had shared it with the other characters and if it had happen to empower a female character. No, it's mainly because Milla Jovovich is married to the director. Her performance is so bad that her character's personality is hard to describe. In some scenes, she looks bored. When they take her carriage, she pouts like a toddler. That being said, Gabriella Wilde's performance is worse. Some lines are witty, but the action sequences are unmemorable. It's always been acceptable in movies to have characters speak English regardless of the country and to use a modern vocabulary regardless of the year. Otherwise, the movies wouldn't gross a lot of money. I get; it's a business. The flaw present in every installment of this franchise (except for THE THREE MUSKETEERS 1948) that I've seen (and probably in others as well) is the inconsistency of accents. You can't have characters with American and British accents in the same movie and pretend they have the same nationality. The fact that THE THREE MUSKETEERS 1993 and THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK also had French actors and that THE THREE MUSKETEERS 2004 had a French narrator made their casting directors look like morons. This installment doesn't have French actors, but it has a Danish and an Austrian. Come on! 1/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 14, 2021 15:27:06 GMT
4/10.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 14, 2021 21:12:28 GMT
I thought this one dull, garish, and horribly acted and far preferred James Whale’s exceptional, expressionistic 1939 version.
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Post by rudeboy on Jan 15, 2021 0:28:06 GMT
3/10. Yuk.
(The 1939 version is one of the greatest of all movie swashbucklers, though - 9/10).
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 15, 2021 3:04:45 GMT
3/10. Yuk. (The 1939 version is one of the greatest of all movie swashbucklers, though - 9/10). Hooray, another fan of the ’39! Completely agreed that it’s one of the greatest of all movie swashbucklers—but, for whatever reason, one of the least-known. James Whale’s direction is (typically) brilliant.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 21, 2021 19:17:02 GMT
7/10
Entertaining romp.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 22, 2021 7:04:03 GMT
6/10
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