" A quasi-steampunk (Lacepunk?) 3 Musketeers?" Topic

Paul W.S. Anderson ('Resident Evil') filmed Milla Jovovich ('Resident Evil', but also 'Joan of Arc') as Milady de Winter in The three Musketeers 3D.
Since Milla Jovovich is "flat as an ironing board / a dab" (word for word translation of French expressions), the 3D may appear as a wasting; but seemingly the movie also features a ninja, a flame-thrower and a dirigible, so….
YouTube link
Not much straight from Dumas, but it cannot be worse than the abysmal Walt Disney 1993 film ("King Louis punches Richelieu, knocking him in to the river. It is the last time Richelieu appears in the film") I was unfortunate enough to watch (during a cross-Atlantic flight, I really could not escape).
And at least, the Cardinal de Richelieu seems to enjoy wargaming:
link

Yep. Looks like a total turkey – as a 3 Musketeers film.

Rename it, rename the four main characters (assuming they kept the names in the first place – D'Artagnan may be too hard for a Movie producer to pronounce), and market it as a total fantasy, on the other hand…

Probably a dorky movie – but I gots to get those minis!

looks like "wait till it flops, the DVD is down to a few pounds in the clearence section, buy it watch it once or twice at least its cost just the price of a pint".
Mind you a range a figures to tie in would be nice if we a resonable dirigible to play around with (again cut price after a few weeks of the moives release).

Oh, I think they got the attitude of the musketeers right:

"There were the four of us against forty of them"

"Forty? Not four hundred?"

"It was an off day"

It might be a fun ride, but not at 3d prices.

I agree that, when a movie like this retains so little of the original, it's best to just rename it.

I suspect, though, that Marketing has the facts and figures to prove that more people will turn out to see a movie called "The Three Musketeers" than one called "The Skyship of Urlandia," or whatever.

Maybe it's based off the candy bar?

:)

Looks like something I can get my head around – if I just remember that it has NOTHING to do with the original novel. The film looks interesting.

Wait and see!
Clearly the film *adds* "Cyrano de Bergerac reread Da Vinci" spectacular details, but does it *omits* much / departs that much from Dumas' novel?

The 1993 movie link had very, very little in common with the novel: compare the plots: link
Cannot be worse.

They lost me at "3D"

I can stomach everything except the flying airship. Save that and the gay pirates for Stardust….

I can stomach everything except the flying airship

For the little we saw, it does looks as 'unrealistically' advanced than this one: YouTube link (normal, the crew wears Napoleonic shakos ). More like a 'Munchausenian' contraption (and to stay in-period, Cyrano de Bergerac DID write 'Sci-Fi' novels involving flying devices).

I'm certainly 'Lacepunk' biased, but I had far more difficulties to stomach the Richelieu-allied-to-Buckingham-to-kill-the-French-King of the Disney version.

Then for me, 3D in theatres bringing more extra cost than anything else, I'll wait for the DVD; and, since the movie does not feature tricornes, only slouched hats, I'll wait for the DVD to be available to rent…

About steampunk (&, potentially, Lacepunk): thesteamerstrunk.blogspot.com

OK, now a venerable (1922) rendition of Dumas' novel:
link
(The Three Must-Get-There / Max Linder)

Have to agree with most comments. Definately Not "The Three Musketeers". If it was made as a lace-punk movie of a different name I'd be in.

Look, you just can't beat the Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chaimberlain musteteers movies. Besides… They had Raquel Welch!!!!

Writen by George MacDonald Fraser too.

Melnibonean I agree. Nothing beats the three Musketeers from the 70's with Oliver Reed as Athos and Michael York as D'Artagnan.

That film even cast Christopher Lee as Rochefort.

agreed. G.M. fraser made the film more historical than the novel. Sad to say, no one seems to get the cardinal or Louis XIII right to save their lives-in any form of media.

anyone on this one movie ?

link

"Cyrano et d'Artagnan" looks interesting (many good actors), or at least potentially amusing:
link
Though Cyrano is more likely to reflect the literary (Rostand's) vision than the historical character (Sci-Fi author as well as poet and swordsman); well, that's always the fate of d'Artagnan, anyway! The plot involves several other famous historical personages: Ninon de Lenclos, Marion Delorme, the marquis de Cinq-Mars… Thank for the reference!

Now, as for Dumas'"3 Musketeers", what about:

Max Linder's "The Three Must-Get-Theres"
link
link
May well be part of the Monthy Python's 'cultural roots'

Look enjoy the movie as a 'steampunk' or technically a'clockworkpunk' movie that has nothing in common with the original than some names and background.

That is the only way to enjoy a movie like this or the latest Sherlock Holmes.