Tackled the 2 hour something Ridley Scott movie, Napoleon, at 3 Damansara... just so I can redeem the dying racked up points on the Capitastar app on parking. This is my n-th number of movies over 2 hours long this year.
Caught the first screening of the day with several other people, who all took bathroom breaks throughout. Somehow me and my bladder made it the whole movie, but not my attention span. I was second screening this as everyone else was rows ahead of me. I probably should've some more caffeine as I watch this, but didn't think I needed it at the time. I cannot imagine watching this on a weeknight; you'd have wasted your money napping through it.
Went into this barely remembering the college-level History of Western Civilisation classes I took (think I took both, barely remembered why now), which I know for damn sure covered this era of French history.
It's a somewhat abbreviated story of Napoleon, which you gotta take with some, if not A LOT of salt. In a movie strewn with anachronisms and a lot of creative license, the one that got in my craw the most is that Joaquin Phoenix is (and looks way) too old to play the guy (who was like in his late 20s - 30-something then) while Vanessa Kirby is way too young for the (IRL) much older first wife Josephine.
- While Rupert Everett only showed up in the last third of the movie (as Duke of Wellington, for the Battle of Waterloo set piece), at least it was more than a glorified cameo.
- Apparently there was very brief sex scenes, but still got taken out any way. But didn't really need to see Joaquin Phoenix be such a horndog for Josephine.
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