It was okay. But the entire Napoleon saga is hard to capture in just one movie. They ought to make a mini-series. Austerlitz and Borodino are covered very well by the novel War and Peace. Whilst damned ol' V. Hugo does a very good job with Waterloo. One of the best and briefest treatments of the Emperor is this two part tongue-in-cheek YouTube effort which will take you less than an hour to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqllxbPWKNI

The movie had great cgi but cannot be recommended to culturally brain-dead connoisseurs of relativity. Here are some collateral facts: Biggest single day causality counts 1) some Roman Emperor, 2) Waterloo, 3) Gettysburg. Napoleon was the last head of state to lead an army on a battlefield. Napoleon House on Bourbon Street in Naw'lins is the oldest restaurants in that city. A plot was hatched there, I believe after Waterloo and the second exile, to bring the Emperor to that city and restaurant to launch a conquest of Mexico, South America and what would become the Western United States. Is this story true? Or is it just a ploy to get tourists to drink at the Napoleon House? I did buy a Po'boy there.

https://www.nola.com/300/the-napoleon-house-plot-the-colorful-history-behind-the-new-orleans-landmark/article_b26b56f5-982d-5514-9890-d54930e6698d.html#:~:text=Nicholas%20Girod%2C%20left%2C%20a%20wealthy,as%20a%20residence%20for%20Bonaparte.

patdolan wrote:
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> It was okay. But the entire Napoleon saga is hard to capture in just one movie. They ought to make a mini-series. Austerlitz and Borodino are covered very well by the novel War and Peace. Whilst damned ol' V. Hugo does a very good job with Waterloo. One of the best and briefest treatments of the Emperor is this two part tongue-in-cheek YouTube effort which will take you less than an hour to watch:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqllxbPWKNI
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> https://www.nola.com/300/the-napoleon-house-plot-the-colorful-history-behind-the-new-orleans-landmark/article_b26b56f5-982d-5514-9890-d54930e6698d.html#:~:text=Nicholas%20Girod%2C%20left%2C%20a%20wealthy

you're hard to capture in one post...

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patdolan wrote:
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> It was okay. But the entire Napoleon saga is hard to capture in just one movie. They ought to make a mini-series. Austerlitz and Borodino are covered very well by the novel War and Peace. Whilst damned ol' V. Hugo does a very good job with Waterloo. One of the best and briefest treatments of the Emperor is this two part tongue-in-cheek YouTube effort which will take you less than an hour to watch:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqllxbPWKNI
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> https://www.nola.com/300/the-napoleon-house-plot-the-colorful-history-behind-the-new-orleans-landmark/article_b26b56f5-982d-5514-9890-d54930e6698d.html#:~:text=Nicholas%20Girod%2C%20left%2C%20a%20wealthy

you might not be aware of dis but they no longer show movies in movie
theaters...

they are just 'trailers' for Netflix and other streaming channels.

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to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge the unchallengeable.

On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
> patdolan wrote:
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> > It was okay. But the entire Napoleon saga is hard to capture in just one movie. They ought to make a mini-series. Austerlitz and Borodino are covered very well by the novel War and Peace. Whilst damned ol' V. Hugo does a very good job with Waterloo. One of the best and briefest treatments of the Emperor is this two part tongue-in-cheek YouTube effort which will take you less than an hour to watch:
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqllxbPWKNI
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> > https://www.nola.com/300/the-napoleon-house-plot-the-colorful-history-behind-the-new-orleans-landmark/article_b26b56f5-982d-5514-9890-d54930e6698d..html#:~:text=Nicholas%20Girod%2C%20left%2C%20a%20wealthy
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> you might not be aware of dis but they no longer show movies in movie
> theaters...
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> they are just 'trailers' for Netflix and other streaming channels.
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> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> and challenge the unchallengeable.
Good point Starmaker. Napoleon in theaters was chopped down to 2-1/2 hours.. I think it is Netflix that will provide a 4 hour full cut. The Russian/Italian movie staring Rod Steiger and the Emperor still rules the Napoleon genre in my estimation.

On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 11:25:58 AM UTC-8, patdolan wrote:
> On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
> > patdolan wrote:
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> > > It was okay. But the entire Napoleon saga is hard to capture in just one movie. They ought to make a mini-series. Austerlitz and Borodino are covered very well by the novel War and Peace. Whilst damned ol' V. Hugo does a very good job with Waterloo. One of the best and briefest treatments of the Emperor is this two part tongue-in-cheek YouTube effort which will take you less than an hour to watch:
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> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqllxbPWKNI
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> > > https://www.nola.com/300/the-napoleon-house-plot-the-colorful-history-behind-the-new-orleans-landmark/article_b26b56f5-982d-5514-9890-d54930e6698d.html#:~:text=Nicholas%20Girod%2C%20left%2C%20a%20wealthy
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> > you might not be aware of dis but they no longer show movies in movie
> > theaters...
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> > they are just 'trailers' for Netflix and other streaming channels.
> > --
> > The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> > to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> > and challenge the unchallengeable.
> Good point Starmaker. Napoleon in theaters was chopped down to 2-1/2 hours. I think it is Netflix that will provide a 4 hour full cut. The Russian/Italian movie staring Rod Steiger and the Emperor still rules the Napoleon genre in my estimation.

As I sit here watching FOX News and swilling this bottom-self rotgut that I had to microwave to even get past my lips because of Bidenomics, it strikes me how in many respects Donald Trump resembles the Emperor NB. FOX just showed a hundred thousand American college kids roaring their approval as Trump appeared unannounced at mid-field at a football stadium this weekend. It's pure Napoleon back from exile. This country will re-elect Trump from a federal prison cell, if necessary. If any of you would like to vote for Trump, don't let a little thing like being a citizen of another country stop you. Just contact any blue state Democrat Party headquarters and request a ballot--they will Fedex it to you anywhere in the world along with a pre-paid return label. No questions asked.