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July 10th, 2023, 8:01 am

Ridley Scott, Joaquin Phoenix, and it will be in Imax? It opens the day before Thanksgiving. So it should have an inflated box office to help get the film awards consideration.

Reviews arent looking too good, the fight for best picture definitely will be between Killers of the flower moon and Oppenheimer after all, still want to see it in theaters, it does look like an spectacle.

ok so i`ve just come back from seeing it on IMAX, i found it to be 2 movies stuck inside this film, the one about Napoleon`s personal life and the one about his battlefield stories, and the second one shines quite a bit more, not because his personal story isnt interesting but because the film felt like it knew exactly what to do on the battle sequences, they convey the tension and the military sapience of Napoleon in an extremely effective way, and the Waterloo sequence, top notch, the rest of the movie felt a bit less like it knew what it was doing and there where certainly some choices on the characterization of Josephine and Napoleon`s relationship.

still i had a realization watching this in the theater that i was watching a large scale historic biopic, and i am appreciative of that.

Ridley Scott Tells Historian Who Called Out ‘Napoleon’ Errors to ‘Get a Life,’ Will Say ‘It’s About Feckin’ Time’ If He Ever Wins an Oscar

Someone wanna tell Scott what exactly a historian's life entails? Does it include ignoring blatant historical inaccuracies?

As Scott put it, "Like all history, it's been reported. Napoleon dies, then, 10 years later, someone writes a book. Then someone takes that book and writes another book and so, 400 years later there's a lot of imagination [in history books]. When I have issues with historians, I ask: 'Excuse me, mate were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then'."

Dude's coming across as nutty as any evolution denier ngl.