![]() ![]() It’s beautiful, thus the cinematography Oscar, but it’s a very long story about how important it is to sail for England and to fight for country. It’s a long movie that almost never leaves a single ship and most of the cast does their best to sell the time they have, but no one really sticks with you. The narrative that seems to have sprung up is that it was too boring. It’s not uncommon to see it on lists of best films of the era and it looks worlds, universes, whatever, better in retrospect than Johnny Depp’s boat franchise from the era. It’s pretty weird, especially given the niche that Master and Commander has carved over the years since. Russell Crowe wasn’t even nominated for Best Actor. It made money, but not as much as you’d expect. Nominated for 10 awards, it won only for cinematography and sound editing. What happened? Master and Commander got clobbered at the Oscars by The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. This was the only one, and director Peter Weir only made one more movie in the next two decades. The world was primed for a bunch of movies to follow Master and Commander and the books that provide the basis would allow for just that. This was the year of the last Lord of the Rings movie and it was the same era as the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Part of this series is that I’ll watch anything anyone suggests, so this is for Ryan, who loves this movie as much as Russell Crowe.Ī lot of the modern discourse about Master and Commander (we’ll shorten it to that from here on out) is about how it disappointed. I’d never seen it, despite a friend of mine saying it was his favorite movie. The guy tagged Crowe, which led to Crowe telling him it was an “adults movie” and praising it as a story about “fidelity to Empire.” Everyone yelled at the original guy, a few sites picked it up as a funny story, and that was that. In January, Russell Crowe responded to some guy on Twitter who said Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World was a powerful sleep aid. This is Best Movie of All Time, an eternal search for the greatest film ever. ![]()
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