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Napoleon (2023) must be really bad

a movie of that scale that's ~6 months old but you never he...
heady pearly gaming laptop
  04/27/24
It was on apple. Tried watching it and fell asleep. I did li...
razzmatazz garrison
  04/27/24
I was going to watch it but saw they cast a nigger as Napole...
exhilarant degenerate
  04/27/24
I think you'd hear about it still if it were just ok what ...
heady pearly gaming laptop
  04/27/24
- 60yo gray grizzled Joaquin Phoenix playing 28yo Napoleon ...
pearl cracking school brethren
  04/27/24
it's just such a blown opportunity to make something epic ...
heady pearly gaming laptop
  04/27/24
The point about the scene where he crowns himself not connec...
Overrated Spectacular Multi-billionaire
  04/27/24
joaquin phoenix was 48 when he filmed this, four years young...
charismatic chest-beating abode
  04/27/24
Looks like shit
razzle-dazzle rigor orchestra pit
  04/27/24
what does "glorifying Napoleon" even mean I get ...
heady pearly gaming laptop
  04/27/24
People don’t care about cucks
zippy ungodly property
  04/27/24
I so badly wanted it to be good, but it was awful. JP wa...
wonderful forum
  04/27/24
Not flame, one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.
Mischievous toilet seat
  04/27/24
i havent seen a movie in years
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  04/27/24
absolutely terrible. guy fought his way up to controlling eu...
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  04/27/24
joaquin phoenix has one pitch - over-acting weirdo. that is ...
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  04/27/24
we like joker though, no?
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got through half the movie till i figured out joaquin phoeni...
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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:15 AM
Author: heady pearly gaming laptop

a movie of that scale that's ~6 months old but you never hear about it

things fade out very quickly now but there are no memes, no scenes no clips

how do you screw up something so epic so badly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47612934)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:17 AM
Author: razzmatazz garrison

It was on apple. Tried watching it and fell asleep. I did like that show Severance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47612946)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:17 AM
Author: exhilarant degenerate

I was going to watch it but saw they cast a nigger as Napoleon so I skipped it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47612948)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:22 AM
Author: heady pearly gaming laptop

I think you'd hear about it still if it were just ok

what a blown opportunity to take something like this and turn it into a boring "love" story or whatever it's supposed to be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47612955)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:34 AM
Author: pearl cracking school brethren

- 60yo gray grizzled Joaquin Phoenix playing 28yo Napoleon

- even at 4 hours long, impossible to capture the scope of all his crazy shit

- sure Josephine was important but typical current year forcememe to give her equal billing

- he was such an overwhelming genius that no non-autist today knows any of his "opponents" until Wellington, so it was hard to create a sense of drama or tension even though Ridley desperately didn't want to "glorify" him. There was a lot of "who the fuck is he arguing with, this is lame"

- focusing on his personal life meant missing out on capturing the bizarre world of revolutionary France and his rise in the popular imagination

- even when they showed iconic stuff like crowning himself emperor, they sort of blew past it without showing how big a "fuck you" it was to everyone previously important

- missed a golden opportunity to show the charge of the Scots greys at Waterloo

Some of the battle scenes were truly 180 though and worth watching for those alone



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47612977)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:38 AM
Author: heady pearly gaming laptop

it's just such a blown opportunity to make something epic

he's one of the most important figures in modern history but per reviews I trust it's this boring slog where he acts like a weirdo w no context like you said

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47612986)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 7:41 PM
Author: Overrated Spectacular Multi-billionaire

The point about the scene where he crowns himself not connecting because it isnt really connected to anything else is the movie’s biggest issue. It’s not just that the movie assumes the audience knows enough about history to know why this person or that moment is important, it’s that they’d rather show a montage of disconnected battle scenes with bunch of weird overwrought Josephine sequences and call it the movie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614255)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:32 PM
Author: charismatic chest-beating abode

joaquin phoenix was 48 when he filmed this, four years younger than dwayne johnson

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614692)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:41 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle rigor orchestra pit

Looks like shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614712)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 7:18 PM
Author: heady pearly gaming laptop

what does "glorifying Napoleon" even mean

I get Ridley Scott is English but why does he have to be portrayed as a weird "proto Hitler" not just in this movie but in modern pop culture generally

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614208)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 8:03 PM
Author: zippy ungodly property

People don’t care about cucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614288)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 8:58 PM
Author: wonderful forum

I so badly wanted it to be good, but it was awful.

JP was terrible, as was the script. New script + Harry Potter as Napoleon may have worked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614357)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 8:59 PM
Author: Mischievous toilet seat

Not flame, one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614361)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:19 PM
Author: jade useless brakes site

i havent seen a movie in years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614413)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: appetizing crackhouse quadroon

absolutely terrible. guy fought his way up to controlling europe but instead they focus on some annoying 2024 caricature of some chick he was fucking.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614431)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:57 PM
Author: Orchid Blathering Party Of The First Part

joaquin phoenix has one pitch - over-acting weirdo. that is not napoleon who by all accounts was charismatic as hell and full of life.

also, napoleon was not jewish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614482)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:59 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle rigor orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614496)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:47 PM
Author: charismatic chest-beating abode

we like joker though, no?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614720)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:13 AM
Author: slate meetinghouse filthpig



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:52 PM
Author: at-the-ready fear-inspiring preventive strike casino

got through half the movie till i figured out joaquin phoenix wasn't depicting truman capote. it was very bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2...id#47614725)