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Master and Commander --the movie

I don't mind a few "private" comments - In fact I took the opportunity to find
out where Sydney Harbor is. And, as a former Paceship owner (Eastwind), I was
curious about the Bluejacket.

However, I think its very rude to have a 14 line signature, when the netiquette
standard is 3. Is that why you're called "The Windman"?

BTW, I think the new Hornblower movies are pretty good. And while the "Master
and ..." movie lacks a plot, this is not the worst thing for an action movie.
Frankly, I thought the POB books lacked action and never finished the series -
the movie was much more enjoyable.

-jeff www.sv-loki.com
If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic. -Zippy

"Vic Fraenckel" wrote in message
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Dare to change the subject so we do not have to read your private
communications if we choose not to.

Thanks

Vic

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| Somebody up your way was advertising a Sandpiper 565 early October.
| I called, but he didn't seem to know a lot about it.
| I passed......didn't want to drive the 700-800 km round trip from Halifax
| unless I felt it was worthwhile.
| Our home club...the RNSYS sold off two of the Bluejackets a year or so
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| "Don White" wrote in message
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| Do you motor or sail Ken? Bras d'or Lakes or ocean?
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| Sail. Start and finish the season in and around Sydney Harbour.
Summers
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| the Bras d'Or Lakes. We don't own a boat yet (except for a Laser II)
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| crew on, and have use of, a C&C 35 Mark I and also a Paceship Blue
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| Ken Heaton & Anne Tobin
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| Ken Heaton wrote in message
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| I saw the movie Master and Commander and was disappointed. I
started
| off
| enjoying it but became annoyed with it before the end. I've
recently
| finished The Truelove (the 16th?) in the series and am enjoying them
| immensely. I'll second the "lacked depth" review.
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| You referred to spin-offs. To what do you refer? Titles please, or
| whatever.
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Master and Commander --the movie

"Doug Dotson" wrote in message ...
I'm not sure I'd let Tom Clancy pilot a nuclear sub either. But that
doesn't keep him from writing good books.

Doug

Hey, don't underestimate Tom Cruise, he reminded me of a young Ronald
Reagan --he might run for President.

I loved it when he said, "some people can't handle the truth" and then
he chuckled.

http://www.geocities.com/tom5515/frame.htm

It's a line from the movie, "Afew Good Men" and he evidently thinks
that we are all starved for the truth --he might be right.

Master and Commander --the movie

Lobscouse & Spotted Dog

Master and Commander --the movie

M& C; The Movie was very disappointing for me as well, but it showed me two
things. One was just how bloody crowded the deck of a fifth rate must have
been, and the other was virtually all the things about the POB series that I
cared least about!
And Crowe was not any kind of Jack Aubrey that I recognized.

"Chuck Bollinger" wrote in message
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Gogarty wrote:

Has anyone seen this movie? I did yesterday. Disappointing. No depth at
all.

Yes, like another complex effort: "Dune". Frank Herbert, the author,
complained
that the movie should have been titled "Scenes from Dune".

Parhaps the most distinguishing feature of the POB books is the slow pace.
Apparently POB was a fan of Louisa May Alcott with her detail, and it is
said
that one of the volumes, in which the story is entirely (?) on land, is a
tribute to her. For that reason, it would seem impossible to accomplish
the
feel of the books in a movie. And, really, try to think of the movie you
would
produce from the real M&C, volume 1. By the time you got the music
recital
where A meets M and challenges him, to the promotion, re-meeting and
dinner,
fitting the Sophie - there's an hour gone just doing that properly, and
they
haven't even got underway.

The diametrical opposite of POB's books are Patrick Cornwell, "Sharp"
series, in
which this incredible (literally) ubermench of a junior officer winds up
hobnobbing with Nelson and all sorts of stuff. I couldn't stand it - too
MTV.

I do hope that there will be future movies and that they will serve the
population of loyal readers by developing characters and such.
Nevertheless, as
a production, it certainly conveyed the confusion of a naval battle,
boarding,
and such. And the image of that guy sitting on the 'seat of ease' as the
camera
panned down the port side in the snow - that's going to stay with me for a
long
time.