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Master and Commander; !!!MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!
Topic Started: May 8 2009, 11:11 AM (321 Views)
zzvastgulf
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I just saw it!!! And it was good. I know its semi-old, but I never saw it because everyone said it was horrible.

Well, I rented it, watched it, and loved it. Maybe not 100% accurate, but a thoroughly good war on the high sea film

Now I want to read the books. :)

Who else liked it?
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zzrocker
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I liked it I guess.

The books are alright. The story is exciting and different, alot of good action. The only problem I had was all the naval jargon wears thin after the 99th stuns'l is set and the jib adjusted and blah blah.

I always laugh at poop-deck though. Poop. Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaah
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One of my favorite movies.
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I can't watch the bit where the kid loses his arm, but other than that I really liked it.

I sail a bit, and my whole family on my mom's side are fishermen, so I grew up hearing nautical terminology. I find all the nautical terms in the books to be nice. It's a jargon, really - when you're talking about a ship with hundreds of controls (which is what it is, each sheet is a different control, and the interrelations can be fiendishly complicated), you develop a jargon so that you can quickly tell someone exactly what you're talking about. It's really no different than you guys who write the "Sergeant Bob stalks through the jungle, cradling his GA-1254X MkIII with underslung derrier projector..." :)

One thing you really pick up on in the books, especially the one about the HMS Surprise (love that name), is how naval technology changed just over the course of a few decades at that time. We tend to think that things change pretty rapidly in modern times and that folks living back then didn't have to deal with that sort of thing, but you can really see it happening in those books.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7LnOKvS8S4

I had to do it.
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Loved the movie!
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I liked the movie well enough, though it seemed like it was too short toward the end. Nevertheless, I really like it. The jargon's not too much, given that it could be a helluva lot more complicated. :P
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Please warn about spoilers in the subtitle. Thankfully I didn't see anything in the thread.
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Good point.

There's no spoilers here, btw.
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