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Is the cinematic age of the Period piece gone? 2011's Three Musketeers

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delalluvia:
Can't even begin to tell you how awful this looks.  If you can take casting as a hint, check out who plays the Duke of Buckingham:  :P :P :P

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1451924505/

Can no history piece be done now - especially rollicking ones - without pandering to the teenage audiences with short-term attention spans?

Monika:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 08, 2011, 02:51:57 pm ---Can't even begin to tell you how awful this looks.  If you can take casting as a hint, check out who plays the Duke of Buckingham:  :P :P :P


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oh, who cares about Orlando Bloom when Matthew Macfadyen is in it??


 O0

Jeff Wrangler:
Stupid video wouldn't load for me.  >:(

I'm an old troll who lives in a cave. I recognized only four names on the cast list.  :-\

I don't see anything wrong with Orlando Bloom as the duke of Buckingham. He's still pretty enough for the part. That was always Orlando's chief talent anyway, being pretty.

Meryl:
 :laugh:

I didn't know there were so many opportunities for explosions in that time period.  They mined them all.  ;D

It reminds me of the Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes movie.  Slick, sarcastic and swift, with nothing much to do with authenticity.  They'll leave the hard work to Masterpiece Theater.  In the meantime, Matthew Macfadyen, yay!  Ray Stevenson, too.  Anybody see him in HBO's "Rome"?  Lovely.  And Orlando is pretty and seems right at home.  Not much of a stretch from the Pirates movies.  8)

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: Meryl on July 08, 2011, 04:05:08 pm --- :laugh:

I didn't know there were so many opportunities for explosions in that time period.  They mined them all.  ;D

It reminds me of the Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes movie.  Slick, sarcastic and swift, with nothing much to do with authenticity.  They'll leave the hard work to Masterpiece Theater.  In the meantime, Matthew Macfadyen, yay!  Ray Stevenson, too.  Anybody see him in HBO's "Rome"?  Lovely.  And Orlando is pretty and seems right at home.  Not much of a stretch from the Pirates movies.  8)

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I didn't recognize MacFadyen - course, I never do unless he has the hair from Pride and Prejudice.  Ray Stevenson's Titus Pullo in HBO's Rome was my man.

OK, so while that particular Duke of Buckingham has been referred to by historians as a 'peacock with a pretty face' and the 'darling' of a couple of English kings and Orlando fits the bill...I dunno, I guess you're right, not much of a stretch, except for the 'taking over the world' bit.

But ye gods, from what girls school did they find the actor who plays D'Artagnan?

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