Hey folks, Harry here with the first review I've seen from Peter Weir's MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, due to hit theaters this Fall. From the sound of it, it's as great as one would hope. November 14th is still a long ways off, and sure this film was originally scheduled for a Summer release this year, but it looks like this is a case of a film taking its time for all the right reasons. Hmmm, reminds me of another sea-faring factually based film that was scheduled to open in a summer and was pushed to Holiday release... Well, not actually, I was just putting that out there so all the jack-offs that love pissing on that film would have something to do with their miserable lives today! Here ya go, this is definitely a film to watch!
Hey,Harry:
Professorco here. Just back from the Chinese 16 cinemas in Aurora, CO, where the significant other and I just saw a free movie that turns out to be a Russell Crowe film. We got handed a sheet while seeing T3 for it. I had never even heard of it, and in the beginning didn't know what the hell it was, but it turns out to be flat out great.
It's called The Far Side of the Ocean, and is about Russell Crowe on a big- ass sailing ship in the British Navy back in the day fighting badder-ass French ship guy that you never really know why. But the movie is pretty awesome. The REALEST, coolest 'you were there' story like this I have seen in a long time.
Crowe is the captain of this ship and he is a real hot dog sailor and wild man, but right in the beginning he gets his ass kicked-in by this newer, bigger ship (the "butcher's bill" is what they call the list of the dead), and then he just chases the s.o.b. to hell and gone, all around the cape horn, through some storm that makes the Perfect Storm look like a bad drizzle, till he catches and outsmarts him in the end.
There were some shots in it that looked unfinished in some of the battles and they said it wasn't finished, but the action, and especially the storm sequences (where some poor fool goes over), really were great. It got slow some in the middle, when the Gay Dr. on the ship goes wandering around an island looking for Birds, and it was hard to know who some of the various characters were (though there is a super cool, gross sequence where the Dr. guy has to operate on himself to remove a bullet form his own stomach (using a mirror!). Apparently there were actually young kids on the ships in those days (one of them is a 'lord') and Crowe has to be father to them, as well as their commander, and order some of them to their death. Its powerful.
Russell crowe is great in the movie. Better than Gladiator, I thought because you see the full range of his acting, from happy-go-lucky to obsessed to hero fighter. I didn?t know anyone else in the movie except one of the other hobbits from LOR steer the boat. Anyway, I recommend it highly and would definitely see it again finished, but they will probably cut some since they said this was the first audience to see it. Different, but cool as shit.
PROFESSORCO
