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In article ,
says...

I don't know what you were looking for. I found lots of interesting
details. A couple of examples:

My guess was he was looking for a balanced and engrossing screenplay and
action.
Glad you enjoyed the setwork and props.
Master and Commander is not good filmmaking.

My thought exactly. I appreciated the fidelity to period detail (except
for Dr. Maturin stumbling upon Origin of Species sometime before Darwin
got around to it). But that basically was the problem with the picture --
it was a catalog, not a story. Might have helped had I understood one
word in a hundred. Badly needed subtitles.