Three Musketeers

[pbray]

It's not the worst movie I've ever seen. It couldn't even commit to being bad, in the way that some movies are (movies where I gleefully thump Joshua's shoulder and proclaim "This is the best movie ever!") while he groans.

There were some neat parts, but the teen romances were actively painful, and took up huge chunks of screen time. Several of the main actors were incapable of acting, the dialogue aspired to be wooden, and at one point I found myself muttering "No, don't open your mouth. Just stand there and look pretty. Please, don't speak."

If you had this on DVD and could fast forward through the awful parts, there's probably a decent half hour worth watching. Too bad we had to sit through the rest.

Comments

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

awww man. it looked like it was going to be the "so awful it was good" category. I mean, it was full of pretty people and random steampunk!

[fireun.livejournal.com]

It missed on the so awful it was good and just managed to flop solidly into awful. There was eyecandy, but they kept opening their mouths...

The only steampunk was the airships. Nothing else, really...alas.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It really should have embraced the badness and become awesome. Instead they wasted the opportunity.

[fireun.livejournal.com]

They got so close...and failed to commit.

I feel almost bad about being the only hysterically amused people in the theater though.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I just want a good adaptation of this and The Count of Monte Cristo on the screen. No steampunk, no updates, no "we can do it better than Dumas" crap from Hollywood.

/sigh