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Went and saw this this weekend. It's a fun popcorn movie. The sword work was nice. The rapiers beautiful as was most of the costuming. The acting and plot? That is where it took a hit. Over all the three main musketeers did a fairly good job. I did not like Milla as Milady De'Winter. She is good in the resident evil movies but I did not like her in this movie. Cardinal Richelieu also was lacking.
I think over all the previous many versions where better. I could have done with out the "Matrix" slow downs and some of the over the tap Campinas.
There where some good laughs,over all in the movie.
Historically it is the far most outlandish version with the clockwork devices and airships. The Da'Vinci cannon was interesting to see in the movie though
over all I give it 3.5 traps out of 5
I will take that under advisement as I was curious about it.
While I have not seen it yet, from the commercials I would consider this new movie more a remake of the Disney version of The Three Musketeers rather than a remake of any of the older, more traditional versions.
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Call me a Phillistine, but this is the first Three Musketeers anything I've ever really liked (excluding, perhaps, the candy bar.) Maybe it's because I've never liked D'Artagnan or maybe it was the floppy hats, but I've never been particularly engrossed by any telling of this story and that includes the novel. I guess all the story needed was airship-mounted flamethrowers and Milady de Winter abseiling into a treasure vault dressed in little more than her skivvies for me to finally see the appeal.
What's amusing is that even with all the flying boats, knife launchers and cheese wire anti-theft devices, this version of the story might actually be closer to Dumas' work than the Disney version. If it weren't for the period costumes one might think it was just a contemporary version of the novel with a few liberties taken to better accomodate some steampunk elements.
This take on The Three Musketeers is a fun movie that seems to belong more to its supporting cast than its heroes. While The Musketeers sort of fade into the background and D'Artagnan gets to play the perfect boring hero, the villains get a lot of time on screen to scheme and menace, with Orlando Bloom hamming it up in a role he seems to really enjoy playing while Christoph Waltz's Richelieu is much more subtle and seems bored that he has no opponents worthy of challenging his intelligence. Milla Jovovich does her usual sexy, adorable tough chick schtick as Milady de Winter and Mads Mikkelsen's (One-Eye from Valhalla Rising) Rochefort plays Darth Maul to Richelieu's Palpatine.
I thought Freddie Fox's King Louis XIII was a brilliant act of comedy and, though she had few scenes, Juno Temple's Queen Anne was commanding, sincere and sweet. There's a scene where King Louis is awkwardly trying to tell Anne how much he loves her that shows how perfect a match these two are and is probably the funniest scene in the film.
I hope this does well enough to warrant a sequel because now I'm imagining Athos, Porthos and Aramis battling a squad of English Steam-borgs while Duke Buckingham pilots a giant, grenade-firing velocipede.
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Utter Garbage! I didn't mind the steam punk elements (Though the trap around the jewels was too much.) What got me was the absolute inane plot. There were parts that were so dumb and useless I felt dumber for seeing them, like the writer thought I was too stupid to realize that there was no point to what was goin on. I felt the movie was made for a couple of special effect shots and to show off milady, the killer superwoman mission impossible master assasin/thief.
The sword fighting wasn't even that great. I knew it was all over the minute I saw the opening scene with the gi-joe based underwater ironman suit.
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The new Three Musketeers film is both a fun movie and bat-$#!+ crazy at the same time.
It bears a closer resemblance to the 1970s version (with Micahel York and Oliver Reed) than the Dinsey version, but falls short in many regards. The current actors just don't have the presence of the 70's actors. They do alright, don't let me kid you, but there is something to be said about a movie where Christopher Lee and Charlton Heston are the main villains. The villains in this, while properly evil, fall short when it comes to grabbing one's attention.
The only exception I felt was Milla Jovovich as Milady Dewinter. She was far better than Faye Dunaway (I don't think I spelled that right).
The actress playing Constance, while beautiful, was again not as charismatic or memorable as Raquel Welch. She was there, she was pretty, but that was about it.
The scenery in the film is amazing! I will be buying the DVD just to screencap it for scenery and costume shots, alone. The airships were pretty fun, although unnecessary. But, we all know how Hollywood likes to go over the top.
Where the film really excelled, imo, was the fight scenes. Some may disagree with me, but I loved the combat scenes. It was not the fact that they used Matrix-esque slow-motions or other gimicks... it was the fact that THERE WAS NO SHAKEY-CAM!!!!!!
REPEAT: NO SHAKEY-CAM!
You could see the action! You could see the correography! I was so happy to finally go to a movie which is supposed to be about sword fighting and actually SEE the sword fighting.
If you want to see a good Three Musketeers movie, go watch the 1970s version. If you just want to be entertained, feel free to watch this new one. That's all I ask a movie to do: entertain me.
THERE WAS NO SHAKEY-CAM!!!!!!
REPEAT: NO SHAKEY-CAM!
You probably just sold two tickets (myself and Mrs. Gersen) with those 2 lines of text. I prefer to vote with my wallet, as it were, and I vote for no more stupid shakey-cam.
And if they would just pass a law banning the use of sped-up film in action flicks altogether, I would be a very happy moviegoer.
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THERE WAS NO SHAKEY-CAM!!!!!!
REPEAT: NO SHAKEY-CAM!
You could see the action! You could see the correography! I was so happy to finally go to a movie which is supposed to be about sword fighting and actually SEE the sword fighting.
Sold. I will watch this movie and mentally attempt to extract it from the stories, so that I may find enjoyment of this non Musketeer Steam Punk movie.
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Sold. I will watch this movie and mentally attempt to extract it from the stories, so that I may find enjoyment of this non Musketeer Steam Punk movie.THERE WAS NO SHAKEY-CAM!!!!!!
REPEAT: NO SHAKEY-CAM!
You could see the action! You could see the correography! I was so happy to finally go to a movie which is supposed to be about sword fighting and actually SEE the sword fighting.
Wow, ok, you've also convinced me to give this movie a try. That's what I've been hating with action films of late.
it was the fact that THERE WAS NO SHAKEY-CAM!!!!!!
REPEAT: NO SHAKEY-CAM!
Well, I'll definitely be seeing it in the theaters, now.
(That, and AIRSHIPS!)
Saw it over the weekend -- if it had been even a tiny bit less campy, it would have sucked, but as it was I really enjoyed it. The airships were used appropriately, I thought, as kind of a means of saying, "Hey, we're making a big spectacle and a goofy movie -- don't take it too seriously, OK?" -- and on that level, it works pretty well.
Personally, I found d'Artagnan to be the stand-out role: admittedly, he's no Gene Kelly (or Douglas Fairbanks!), but the kid they found is young and convincingly acts very cocky and irrascible, which is after all exactly what the role calls for.
Overall, this rendition was about a zillion times better than the stupid Disney one with Kiefer Sutherland. I also liked it a LOT better than the Raquel Welch ones from the '70s (Michael York is way too much of a nebbish to be d'Artagnan). The Fairbanks and Kelly versions are still my favorites, though.
Love the Kelly Version..it was the first one I saw as a Kid.Perfectly cast, beautifully photographed and in glorious Technicolor.
My favourite version has to be the Michael York one..His D'artagnan is so earnest.Messers Findlay,Reed and Chamberlin have a wonderful time as the brawling trio and Heston and Lee are superbly cast as Richeleau and Rochfort.The fights in the Laundry in Three and on the ice in four have inspired a few scenes in my games ever since.
This one I'll get on DVD and file with my Fantasy movies.
My favourite version has to be the Michael York one...
Yeah, that's what everyone says except me. I can't understand it -- at all.
To my mind, d'Artagnan should be a cocky, fiery, ambitious punk -- not a bumbling, timid schoolboy.|
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Might go see the new version if I get some spare c-bills.
As to the Disney one. It's not the Three Musketeers. It's the adventures of an aristocrat, a fallen paladin, a rogue and a warrior against the evil overlord. I realized that when Tim Curry yelled for "1,000 gold pieces dead or alive. (and I prefer dead)"
Edit: I just realized, it's Curse of the Crimson Throne. With low magic :-)