MASTER AND COMMANDER

MASTER AND COMMANDER


making no concessions to modern, egalitarian sensibilities, is among the most thoroughly and proudly conservative movies ever made.


magnificent vigor and precision.

This stupendously entertaining movie,



the smallest details of shipboard behavior become so breathlessly absorbing. The battle sequences are filmed with impressive coherence and rigor, but ''Master and Commander'' is, if anything, most thrilling between skirmishes, when the complex system of authority and deference that runs the Surprise -- and the personality traits needed to keep it running -- is at the center of attention.


The Napoleonic wars that followed the French Revolution gave birth, among other things, to British conservatism, and ''Master and Commander,'' making no concessions to modern, egalitarian sensibilities, is among the most thoroughly and proudly conservative movies ever made. It imagines the Surprise as a coherent society in which stability is underwritten by custom and every man knows his duty and his place.


A story of immense scale and complexity filmed with clarity, swiftness and attention to detail.

AS ALWAYS, FAR TOO SHORT. THE SOPRANOS IS THE MODEL FOR FILMS OF THIS SCALE, COMPLEXITY,CLARITY, SWIFTNESS AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL. AND THREE D. AND WALL TO WALL CINERAMA. WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR?



OH, AND MORE LONG LINGERING PANORAMAS. CHECK OUT THE SHIP PANORAMA IN 1922 NOSFERATU.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS STUPID MINDSET. NO LINGERING PANORAMAS. A COMPLETE REJECTION OF THREE D. WHICH IS ABOUT DEPTH, NOT THINGS JUMPING OFF THE SCREEN.

AND WHY ARE FILMS STUCK IN BLURRED BACKGROUNDS. TV HAS DEPTH OF FOCUS, BUT THESE SNOBS THINK CINEMA HAS TO BE WRONG. IT DOESN'T.