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Post by Kainguru on Feb 22, 2014 19:49:42 GMT -8
As mentioned during 'The Argument Phase' Aaron
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Post by stork on Feb 22, 2014 20:21:13 GMT -8
And I was trying to ask if it was better than this
as opposed to this
Because the Richard Lester Musketeers is pretty much the best action adventure movie this side of Raiders!
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Post by inflatus on Feb 22, 2014 20:25:25 GMT -8
Watching the Paul W.S. Anderson one now.
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 22, 2014 20:42:25 GMT -8
Yes, it is . . . as a television drama rather than a big screen production. So there is more character development but there is also plenty of swashing buckles and impressive use of early fire arms. Each episode rockets along and there is plenty of adventure action thru out . . . there is a very impressive fight where the musketeers cut a swift and brutal swath thru a small troop of militia that is worthy of any big screen production . . . Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 22, 2014 20:50:05 GMT -8
Yes, it is . . . as a television drama rather than a big screen production. So there is more character development but there is also plenty of swashing buckles and impressive use of early fire arms. Each episode rockets along and there is plenty of adventure action thru out . . . there is a very impressive fight where the musketeers cut a swift and brutal swath thru a small troop of militia that is worthy of any big screen production . . . Aaron
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Post by stork on Feb 22, 2014 21:10:37 GMT -8
Well....judging from that, I think my wife will like it for sure!
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 22, 2014 21:25:00 GMT -8
You mean all the horribly ugly leading men with terribly annoying suave brit accents ? Yeah my wife will love it too . What's with all those "hunky dudes" getting all mixed up in my nerdiness ? Eh...I'd do 'em.
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Post by ayslyn on Feb 22, 2014 22:02:34 GMT -8
If you're looking for something that is true to the letter of the book, then look elsewhere.
If however, you want something that is dead on true to the spirit of the book, then this is right where you need to be.
Peter Capaldi does a fantastic job capturing the tightrope walk that Richelieu walked between overwhelming ambition and honest patriotism.
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 23, 2014 3:37:10 GMT -8
. . . And beards are cool again, which is cool Aaron
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Post by ayslyn on Feb 23, 2014 3:55:34 GMT -8
Just saw the preview for Ep.5....
Yeah! More Porthos!!!
Seriously. I'm hard pressed to come up with the words to show just how much I am loving this series. The Three Musketeers is one of my favourite books, and the BBC has absolutely captured it's essence. The actors are all top-notch, the characters are all fantastic, and the action is everything you want it to be.
Yes, there are plenty of dashing men for the ladies to feast their eyes on... But the male viewer hasn't been forgotten. There are plenty of lovely ladies for us as well.
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 23, 2014 5:08:55 GMT -8
Just saw the preview for Ep.5.... Yeah! More Porthos!!! . . . and very much a firm nod of recognition and celebration of Dumas himself. I imagine that Dumas himself would have been hugely flattered by the rewriting of his character and pleased that the world has moved on so far as to inspire it. For those that are unaware Alexandre Dumas' father was ". . . Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. Thomas-Alexandre had been born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the mixed-race son of the marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman and général commissaire in the artillery of the colony, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a slave who was of Afro-Caribbean ancestry". Alexandre Dumas himself was an inveterate womaniser having, at last count, 7 illegitimate children and nearly 40 different mistresses. It would be naive to assume that his celebrity status afforded him any isolation from the inherent racism of his times. In 1843, in response to such prejudice he writes in a novel to a man that has insulted him regarding his mixed parentage - "My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends" Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 23, 2014 5:27:33 GMT -8
Actually, now that I've finally slept at last (the podcast was at 0200 GMT and I'd been awake since 12.45 and gaming since 1800 with a total of 3.75 hours sleep over that 24 hrs) . . . my brain seems to recall a little game system that simulated the Musketeer type combat, vis-a-vis fencing, that utilised choosing a specific attack and defense for each 'turn of combat' where both opponents would then declare their choices and the results compared eg: A: 'feint to the right and aim for the lower abdomen' B: 'aim for the throat while blocking high' a matrix then compared the possible results. For the life of me cannot recall the name of the game? . . . Aaron
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Post by yojimbohawkins on Feb 23, 2014 5:35:34 GMT -8
I'm thoroughly enjoying The Musketeers. The main characters all seen to having tremendous fun 'buckling their swash', so the series has a sense of fun and a nice line in dry humour lacking in some other Sunday night TV fare.
Some critics have unfavourably compared it to Game of Thrones (yes, Grace Dent, I'm looking at you!), which is like comparing Midsomer Murders to The Wire. Not everything needs to be dark, violent and angsty. It can be fun, violent and suave too!
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 23, 2014 6:51:20 GMT -8
I'm thoroughly enjoying The Musketeers. The main characters all seen to having tremendous fun 'buckling their swash', so the series has a sense of fun and a nice line in dry humour lacking in some other Sunday night TV fare. Some critics have unfavourably compared it to Game of Thrones (yes, Grace Dent, I'm looking at you!), which is like comparing Midsomer Murders to The Wire. Not everything needs to be dark, violent and angsty. It can be fun, violent and suave too! Yeah +1: no incest, no wieners (floppy or otherwise), everyone doesn't die all the time, no magic, no walking dead, no dragons . . . so (Gracie) the similarity to GoT lies where exactly? It has actors perhaps? . . . Aaron
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 23, 2014 9:30:13 GMT -8
Just because I am probably the last to watch BBC via the website; which is rather amazing. Here's the link to the first episodes (they are only up for one month, so I now have something to watch TONIGHT!) And its this sort of stuff that makes me love having an "inspirational media" conversation/thread/thing. I would not have known to watch this and I LOVE THE BOOK! Thanks Aaron. The Musketeers Ep. 1
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