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(24,324 posts)But I did, a few years ago. On NETFLIX, I think.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)BootinUp
(46,924 posts)tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)The books were out standing and the series was really good also. The ship I was on
we were on a med cruise. One Sunday while a slow day u/w I started getting the wardroom
hooked on it. After every cd we would take a break and everyone would run out and
check on what was going on, Capt to the bridge, department heads checking the all was running
well and their sailors were getting rest instead of working. Great afternoon and one of the few
where everyone was relaxed for a change.
Read the books if possible, movie follows them as much as possible.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Really exciting stuff! I loved them.
My favorite non-fiction in the same genre is Two Years Before the Mast. I first read that in high school in 1961 or so, and have re-read a couple times since.
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)I'll have to check that one out, thanks
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)and from what I've read it is fairly accurate in its depiction of Naval operations of the period.
BootinUp
(46,924 posts)and put much effort into it. I feel like its pretty real.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Maybe it didn't do that well at the box office. Which is too bad, because that movie was terrific.
Aristus
(66,082 posts)But it's been too long, I think.
Closing scene, with the Boccerini piece, is one of the best final scenes in film history.
When the music cuts out over the seascape of the HMS Surprise in pursuit of the Acheron, and all that's left is the wind blowing, it's breathtaking...
Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)wrote 21 books about the characters and their experiences.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)it didn't make the big bucks. Cost: 150M, gross: 212M. Also, the timing was unfortunate; it came out at the same time as Return of the King. Otherwise, a good chance it would have scored best picture; it was nominated.
Initech
(99,912 posts)Too late!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Dick Seaman.
I kid you not.
Mr.Bill
(24,103 posts)You can hear the wood of the ship creaking around you from all directions.
frogmarch
(12,145 posts)In the early 1950s I saw the movie Captain Horatio Hornblower, and I liked it so much, I named my new kitten Horatio Hornblower. My mom called him Harold, though, and it stuck with everyone but me.