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Napoleon (2023) must be really bad

a movie of that scale that's ~6 months old but you never he...
titillating space
  04/27/24
It was on apple. Tried watching it and fell asleep. I did li...
haunting gas station
  04/27/24
I was going to watch it but saw they cast a nigger as Napole...
racy red stain chapel
  04/27/24
I think you'd hear about it still if it were just ok what ...
titillating space
  04/27/24
- 60yo gray grizzled Joaquin Phoenix playing 28yo Napoleon ...
insanely creepy adventurous gay wizard party of the first part
  04/27/24
it's just such a blown opportunity to make something epic ...
titillating space
  04/27/24
The point about the scene where he crowns himself not connec...
Crawly Mind-boggling Haunted Graveyard Hairy Legs
  04/27/24
joaquin phoenix was 48 when he filmed this, four years young...
Misanthropic passionate stage black woman
  04/27/24
Looks like shit
motley weed whacker chad
  04/27/24
what does "glorifying Napoleon" even mean I get ...
titillating space
  04/27/24
People don’t care about cucks
salmon coldplay fan theater
  04/27/24
I so badly wanted it to be good, but it was awful. JP wa...
Mentally impaired ceo national security agency
  04/27/24
Not flame, one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.
Stimulating area goal in life
  04/27/24
i havent seen a movie in years
hilarious beta alpha friendly grandma
  04/27/24
absolutely terrible. guy fought his way up to controlling eu...
Chrome Rigor
  04/27/24
joaquin phoenix has one pitch - over-acting weirdo. that is ...
chartreuse wonderful brunch
  04/27/24
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motley weed whacker chad
  04/27/24
we like joker though, no?
Misanthropic passionate stage black woman
  04/27/24
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ivory hell
  04/28/24
got through half the movie till i figured out joaquin phoeni...
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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:15 AM
Author: titillating space

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#47612934)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:17 AM
Author: haunting gas station

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#47612946)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:17 AM
Author: racy red stain chapel

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#47612948)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:22 AM
Author: titillating space

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#47612955)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:34 AM
Author: insanely creepy adventurous gay wizard party of the first part

- 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#47612977)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 10:38 AM
Author: titillating space

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#47612986)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 7:41 PM
Author: Crawly Mind-boggling Haunted Graveyard Hairy Legs

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#47614255)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:32 PM
Author: Misanthropic passionate stage black woman

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#47614692)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:41 PM
Author: motley weed whacker chad

Looks like shit

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



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Date: April 27th, 2024 7:18 PM
Author: titillating space

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#47614208)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 8:03 PM
Author: salmon coldplay fan theater

People don’t care about cucks

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



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Date: April 27th, 2024 8:58 PM
Author: Mentally impaired ceo national security agency

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#47614357)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 8:59 PM
Author: Stimulating area goal in life

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

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



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:19 PM
Author: hilarious beta alpha friendly grandma

i havent seen a movie in years

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



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Chrome Rigor

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#47614431)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:57 PM
Author: chartreuse wonderful brunch

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#47614482)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 9:59 PM
Author: motley weed whacker chad



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



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:47 PM
Author: Misanthropic passionate stage black woman

we like joker though, no?

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



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:13 AM
Author: ivory hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521987&forum_id=2#47614745)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:52 PM
Author: wine piazza bbw

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#47614725)