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Why Are So Many Guys Obsessed with Master and Commander?
- Frummy 4y agoMen being allowed to feel things in an honourable and dutiful way has always been a successful package deal.
- masfuerte 4y agoThe film's OK. The books are up there with Mantel's Wolf Hall series or Renault's Alexander novels. Well worth a read. ETA: This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson is another excellent nautical novel.
- epilys 4y agoThe prose is incredible. I find myself agreeing with the author of this opinion piece: it's Jane Austen at sea https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/28/why-patrick-obrian-is-jane-austen-at-sea https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/28/why-patrick-ob...
- browningstreet 4y agoI watched it. I liked it. I never think about it. I wouldn’t watch it again. I love Russell Crowe.
- wrycoder 4y agoMaster and Commander is a rare film about the duties and agonies of leadership. It’s about maintaining English culture on a small warship lost the Pacific, against all odds. It’s not about some sailor bromance.
- epilys 4y agoMy non-anglosphere anecdote: I love it for the bromance. I don't think anyone cares about the English except the English themselves.
- theossuary 4y agoI came for the critique of early century British naval life, but I definitely stayed for the romance <3
- prepend 4y agoYou always choose the lesser of two weevils.
- greedo 4y agoIt's one of the best films about naval life/combat ever made.
- chrisdhoover 4y agoI hated it when it was released. I watched again a few months ago. I liked it much better. I like the kid who loses an arm. I really disliked the suicide. Also Russell Crowe annoys me