Hello everybody welcome back to another first-run bald movie prestige edition today tonight we're talking about Ridley Scott's new film

Napoleon starring

Waukeen Phoenix as old bones apart himself.

Uh-huh. And Vanessa Kirby as his emperor Josephine.

Boy, this film was getting a lot of mixed early reviews and I had a good time with it,

but I also have a very, I'm also primed to have a good time with it but I also have a very I'm also primed to have a good time with this film and even then I have

Questions and concerns Jim what did you make of this little slice of Napoleon's life?

Curious to know what you mean when you say you're prime to like it.

So my experience with this was I was watching a movie and about an hour into it I thought

do I actually care about any of this and unfortunately the answer was no and the movie didn't really give me a reason to care.

The movie to me felt like it didn't have a very strong sense of the story that it was trying to tell. It was more just, it felt almost like a historical documentary. And I don't know, I'm not speaking to the accuracy of anything here. What I'm saying is the vibe of it felt more like,

we're just following this man through his life.

There's no great ups and downs because Napoleon just won until he lost.

There's no like big character arc.

There's no, there's nothing to grab on to there that compels me as a viewer outside of any interest I might have in Napoleon, which honestly is zero.

So I found myself going, why am I watching this movie about halfway in or why was this movie made I guess is the bigger question

Yeah, I mean it seems like one the central for what it's like is like two movies in one. This is like a erotic

historical period piece about...

But not that erotic erotic

a erotic historical period piece about Napoleon being just

completely besought with his Emperor Josephine.

And I think they could have, there would have been kind of like a fun, trashy,

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