The Reel Rejects - NAPOLEON (2023) MOVIE REVIEW!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: January 20, 2024

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And we're going to hop into our thoughts on the movie. Unless we have anything else to do first. Unless there's anything that we ought to dictate to people. No, okay. Well, damn. This has been an interesting year for movies like this.

This is a, you know, a big sweeping epic of sorts, but it's also got a very sort of ironic quality at the center of it. And having seen it, funny, Killers of the Flower Moon is here on screen. They want us to watch it after the Hunger Games and after

the bricklayer in that order. But that movie kind of makes for an interesting compliment to me because these are two of the most striking and talked about movies of the year from two veteran filmmakers that both showcase

like what can happen when just like horribleness and caniving is left to kind of its own devices and when you're in a time where like information is restricted so you have you know

both the immense possibility of what you know machinations can do and also just like idiocy and and pettiness can do and whereas killers is a very austere very straight movie I felt like this endeavored to explore similar territory obviously with a different historical context but but with a much more deeply ingrained

sense of yeah irony humor etc but yeah what'd you think sir um my nice side is just wanting to say mixed bag sure because i can easily pinpoint what i liked about it yes see it's easy for me to like isolate what i really like about it it's very easy overall i'm not sure i like this movie sure to be sure uh overall i'm not sure i like this movie uh i think it it it's kind of if it just felt way edited down and then i don't really find the story itself that enriching of a story it's more like i watched a bunch of things happen even napoleon himself doesn't really have uh things happen four and two napoleon but him as a character doesn't really have a real descent as a as a person or an

arc in any real way like he kind of just starts off this way and he's a little bit more that guy by the end of it yeah it's not exactly much of a uh in terms of a narrative i think it's it's kind of weak and and and and then we're like we're saying it throughout the whole reaction that it just kept feeling really paired down like with the way they would handle time jumps and time spans and then you would have scenes that were like oh this is kind of like uh emotionally dramatically I'm into it and then we're just sometimes we'll do a time jump without informing you or they do a time jump and they inform you and then it would ultimately lead to like battle scenes that were really grandiose epic and on scale and shot with such visceral nature that I haven't seen

in any of the 2023 movies to this degree especially in a practicality scale where it would blend cGI in ways that uh at times other than like cannon and maybe some fighter that i couldn't really tell but like this like those battle sequences were just beyond epic at the same time when i would step back i would go but i have like no emotional investment in in this fight i don't know the soldiers all this stuff about what napoleon cares about outside of josephine i don't really know uh this reverency for france i don't understand other than he just there's a lot of things that are been like dictated to me and told to me. But again, it was kind of like watching a history book with questioning constantly

what is real, what is accurate and what is not accurate. And the reason why I would do that is because I wasn't lost enough in the narrative to not give a shit about that. I was so aware of a lot of the shortcomings that this movie was doing. And like the first hour, I would be like, I know, I'm enjoying. there's a bit of a farcical element as we were pointing out and this humorous touch where they would use music that would be in a fun juxtaposition where it was like this classical elegance while like atrocities are taking place and it would magnify uh some of the goofiness

and silliness and how these people were kind of a joke it magnifies the yeah the the the weird artifice of high society in a time especially such as this where it's like conflict is so tangible but it lost that sure that humor it lost it lost all that for me uh in the last like hour and a half of this film or something some some part of that runtime the one of the things that was really clicking for me and then it just starts becoming like we got to just clip through this and clip through this and clip through this and out of two and a half hours i didn't really feel anything when i was watching it i was i was watching certain times i would i would admire something i'm watching or be like oh that's i might react to like a violent scene um or

i might oh he's kind of an asshole here uh but i i think like the storytelling itself is is one of the things that i can have an issue with readily scott movies nowadays like sometimes he comes out with a banger um and then other times it comes out with stuff that just kind of feels like it's pretty it's great to look at great cast um but in terms of the like your overall story, there's not much of an impact. And I think the impact, maybe there's historians who watch this and are like, oh, but seeing this, maybe that like tickles your fancy in some way. But from just a movie-going experience, I think it's kind of empty.

And that's my biggest issue with it is that I didn't latch on to anything. And it was never even cold in a way that was, appealing I like a cold harsh movie I like I like watching the bad guy be the main character I love all those kinds of films you know but there's a there's still a voice and a and a pull from the heart that it has to have and I felt like this was I just think it was added it down and sure and I imagine there's an exception is that you kept saying the thing about longer cut is there there a thing about longer cut yeah I'll Yeah, there's going to be like a four-hour version of this movie.

Yeah, that, like, shows. Yeah. But unlike Rebel Moon, where I'm, like, really, like, I'm not really sure I want to see a longer cut. I'd be curious to see a longer cut of this one. I would be. I'll watch the Rebel Moon cut, but I... Well, in the Rebel Moon, it's obvious. It appears obvious as to what might get put back in, whereas this, you're sort of, like,

other than fleshing out certain beats of history that maybe fly by... you know, there's a, it seems like there's a broader array of things that that extra time could a lot for, you know, rather than clearly there were plot elements removed, you know. Yeah, I think this lacks strong characterization and, and they keep going back to the word narrative. It's just at the end of the day, you have to tell a story. And so even if it's a slice of life or something, you have to tell the story. There's got to be some kind of narrative here. and it I guess we technically watch the rise and fall of Napoleon but the way they would handle the times when you would dump around time and then what you chose to focus on in those times and you see what they have with their hands of disposal when it comes to a budget that's like oh yeah you could easily probably have like other scenes on the cutting room floor that really got you hooked into stuff whether it be from just a mind intellectually is more interested or the heart is more about.

and to me this movie kind of didn't either like two and a half hours I was just watching stuff happen with occasionally being amused by walking Phoenix's performance and admiring Vanessa Kirby's work of but out of a big cast I mean like I can't really name anyone else harder than that but there's a lot of people here like no one really stands out as a performer sure walking Phoenix kind of felt like again because of the the the story they presented it's it it's not really i don't feel like i got to know napoleon really yeah i got to know some things about napoleon sure some stuff that maybe people like rumored about what he was like as a person i can tell how this movie feels about napoleon but i never got into the mind of napoleon i never got into why napoleon really is the way he is it's just things that were alluded to it never felt like it got confident enough to embrace a voice or his perspective

you know like that's where I felt like it was at odds where I could feel I could feel the judgment of Ridley Scott of the story here but it never quite took the perspective of Napoleon when that's what the movie's doing is telling it from the perspective of Napoleon while occasionally cutting to someone else yeah

it doesn't really extrapolate on his perspective it's like you understand his perspective and since it's being told largely from his deluded point of view it's like you don't yeah there's there I can see the value in doing that and I can see why you would want to pitch it that way

for a movie like this but I do think that other elements would have to kind of change a bit to really compliment that or to make it feel like it isn't just you know two and a half hours of watching like a terrible narcissist never learned and just you know parade around the world being petulant and and yeah like it is it is an interesting it's one of these

movies and and i'm not gonna i'm trying not to harp on it too much but there are elements of this experience that do kind of remind me of the debate that i've heard and and been somewhat a part of when it came to killers the flower movie it's like both of these movies have this quality where like when you get what the movie's doing you get what the movie's doing and and this movie especially doesn't really devise you a whole lot from the thing that it's doing, which is to present Napoleon, this guy who has this status in history, who clearly was able to do great and devastating things in equal, often simultaneous measure. And there's something obviously interesting about that in

juxtaposition to our current society. We have many a Napoleon figure at large in politics and otherwise here today. You know, obviously you can draw your through line to Trump if you want to with a movie like this but it is that thing of like okay so i can imagine that really working for somebody for two plus hours and certainly i feel like this movie like it this is a potentially like a hole is not as great as the sum of the parts because all the parts are pretty great it's like all the performances really committed all of the designs the way that it lives in this time and place to really sell the tangibility and the harshness and the contrast between high society and all the ceremonial

stuff that people like to stand on, especially in this moment in time, and they even highlight it on occasion, you know, polite society and the, you know, extreme depravity that can be, you know, propped up on top of that or, you know, any number of other

atrocious human elements. But yeah, it's like the movie doesn't position itself to extrapolate on why Napoleon is, as you mentioned, or to it's weird it's like you don't have to show him sympathetically and it would be a different kind of movie if you did endeavor to show things that explain why he is how he is um but yeah it's

like as it exists here and now i can easily see a lot of viewers getting to the end and being like okay that was a lot of miserable and a lot of ironic but yeah what is this amounting to beyond all of that plus you know a a quick sprint through history yeah that i imagine we'll probably pace a little differently and perhaps a little more breathably for people who know the history well. But yes, for the rest of us who are either rusty or ignorant toward a lot of the greater details, it does feel like, whoa, okay, wait, hold on, we're hopping through time. And even the way they leave some of the titles on screen that are explaining things to you

are like pretty quick and moving along. And yeah, yeah, it is one where it's like there's so much to appreciate, but what it's giving you you know if you especially if you see it from early on and that's not enough for you I feel like this would be a very long experience for a lot of people

no I think I was just watching facts or depictions of things the entire time you know if you if you look at a movie like I don't know there will be blood for example right

I am that movie is a really harsh cold mean movie about one guy who starts off greedy and he's even greedier but he's left lonely and miserable and he's getting worse and you're watching this guy like deteriorate into a monster you know like it's hopelessness yeah for that man by the end and what he's lost himself to in the pursuit of more and he's he's completely lonely and and here use that as a comparison because there's at least like a mood about that there's a there's a there's at least like a terror about that yeah and you're you're watching the if affect it has on other people like really living in that watching how other people get lost in the vortex of this

man and here i feel like they say things like the one guy or he's like his egotism and uh the way rules is like the Paul the dark Paul that he cast over my all this shit like I don't really feel like I saw any of that I don't really feel like I got any of that of what it was what he was like really what he was like as a general other than you watch the battle happen you don't really see him his mindset as a general um you don't really see what he's like as a ruler as an emperor you don't really see all these things that they're saying that he does that are terrible because I'm like from what you've shown me I would be like other than him conquering I I'm not really getting any additional context to understand what he's done that's made him so such a polarizing

figure what's made him so terrible older than he left people down yeah i'm not really being fed that you know and i'm not seeing why again everything comes back to why right you got a you got to show not tell in this movie relied a lot on occasionally dropping some nuggets of information to make you go here's why when you you have to let you let the audience marinate and some like um whatever may be atrocities or the love that you see that he has and i think the time where they gave the most delicacy was the thing they were like placed in all their eggs and one basket for was this tragic romance with uh this josephine woman uh which yeah was probably the most interesting part to me and the movie treats it like it's the most

interesting part about his character and i i think they lose sight of that that like it's it's kind of it's it's a it's a disjointed experience it's it lacks focus and it doesn't really know where it wants the place it's hard and focus at you can't just cut to a cool battle scene you can't yeah you can't just tell me like updates what's going on you know that's what this movie does it's just like an update update the experience update the timeline uh here's what's happening and then and then narrative becomes confusing on dynamics and relationships and stuff, I, I, like, oh, whatever was his brother, you know, there was a whole thing with his brother, like, what happened with his brother?

Sure. Yeah, totally. That's something I'm just remembering right now. And, and it's a big, yeah, I'm not, I don't think I like the movie. All right, Reject Nation, so today I want to share something with you that has been a wonderful addition to my health and fitness journey that I discovered during the holidays. And that is Liquid IV's hydration multiplier. I'm down to my very last packet and I'm freaking out.

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especially harsh and nasty war at this point in time is, and how you know, you're so far removed when you're back home or in some great mansion plotting all this stuff versus actually being out on the battlefield

or whatever. And yeah, it's like you have this notion that man, the people are really behind him and his, like part of the reason the moment with the troops in the toward the end right before Waterloo kind of worked for me is because I couldn't tell really what to expect and I was like oh no he's not going to win them back is he

but I didn't have really reason to go like I know that these dudes are super dedicated to him it was so like that moment worked because of that but at the same time I feel like the rest of the movie kind of suffers because of that because yeah it's like you said we don't really get to see the soldiers even through his you can still do that through his perspective but see him being you know of those people and you know rallying them to a point where you're like well i see how dedicated these people are or uh inversely like throughout the movie he makes mention to like the people the for i'm doing this for the people of france i the people

they love me they look to me and we almost never see the people which again is i think somewhat intentional and somewhat of a fair choice because it's illustrating how removed especially in a time and place like this where you're confined to just letters and what you can see and what trusted people relate to you. Like I get, again, the purpose, but as it's all executed here into this melting pot, it does feel kind of impersonal and a little disconnected at times,

and then you have the romance element, which again kind of reminded me of a Killers of the Flower Moon thing where you're watching this clearly toxic, bad situation go down, but at the core of it, you're like, but maybe in some weird twisted way they do love each other,

although here, while I did appreciate those scenes and the performing of, them i didn't think it was as strong or interesting as say it was in killers because here a lot of those scenes are like kind of the same scene just in different years and after different battles and i didn't really i started to lose the plot in terms of like i get what his feelings are about her i can't tell what her actual feelings are and like she'll write these letters and part of my brain is going okay i think there's got to be a lot of ironic double speak in here But she's still writing him, and, you know, they still maintain this contact.

And even after all this, and she's, like, laughing at him during the divorce proceedings, I guess she loved him somehow, but also I kind of don't buy it. And, yeah, you're left with the muck of certain of these choices where you're sort of like, I don't really know what the choice fully was. Well, I don't under, I don't think they, well, what could have helped is if it seemed like within the passage of time that our characters were aging at all. that and they they don't they don't i don't feel like any time passes for our performers like walking phoenix and venessa kirby like yeah they just look the same yeah their hair changes but then you're i know yeah but we also live in a time where everyone's got like 20 wigs yeah so like yeah you get to the end and i was starting to go okay like he i guess in the right light he kind of looks like older and more pale but i feel like that's just kind of more got to do with like

the performance and the fact that he's like kind of slowly giving up here at the end And, you know, rather than it's actually being, like, a choice within, you know, yeah, that aspect of the craft. Like, the whole thing with, like, being exiled and stuff, like, that first year, he was, the movie glosses over that. When he's first exiled, he's, he's exiled in this film's runtime for, like, five minutes. And I didn't know as a part of history. And he comes back. I need to come back. Like, I'm like, what?

In my time of experience, I'm not saying I need like an hour. I'm saying that I, this movie just glosses over it. And he's like, I'm tired. I'm like, well, in my time, I feel like you just got here. And it's funny, but I feel like they could have still maintained that, the humorousness of that while also, yeah, at least committing to it a little more. So then a viewer like me can be surprised when it's like, oh, I didn't realize he was exod once, came out of exile, tried to, you know, do one more coup and then failed and then got super exiled. Like I didn't realize the whole Waterloo context that way. So yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, you're right. Like everything, even though this is a movie that, again, looks like a classical painting. And I like the contrast of how it doesn't behave that way. But, yeah, like, there's a grace of pace that I don't think they quite nailed. And I wonder how I would feel if I didn't know that this is supposed to be longer. And certainly, again, like a Rebel Moon, you can tell without having to be told that. Whereas this, you know, I might not have known as well. had i not been aware of that but also i mean you know you could have easily mini-series did this

yeah i don't think this should be a like a story with this much time span like i don't know how you could tell this even in four hours i that's that honestly feels like it'd be better still feels like it might miss the mark with the amount they want to tell it still feels a little too it feels like a lot for what this is trying to do yeah you're trying to span a lot uh uh like a little too much i think is and when with the amount you're trying to incorporate because again even a movie like there will be blood you don't really know why he is the way he is but they they give you other things to really feed off of and sink your teeth into and you spend enough time with other characters to get some of that development yeah whereas here you know uh i don't need to know

exactly why he loves france but for it to really drive like a wedge between the marriage so much and for his desire for more like i need some conflict that truly arises from that you know i need something more some kind of personal holly wooded up a little bit would you do it's something it's moving quick enough that it just feels like well this is just how he thinks so naturally he must just need to ascend to the highest level of rule because this feels this still feels like a movie you know this still feels like a hollywood film it does doesn't feel like, oh, I'm stepping into a moment in time. And that's okay.

I'm totally okay with it feeling like a film. But if you're going to do that, then Hollywood, say it Hollywooded up then. Create some drama. Create some real conflict here. Do something to give it that extra, that little sizzle. So that way we're on board for some of the more dramatic journeys and stuff like that or have something to care about. But I didn't care about anything that was happening.

I didn't care. like it is one of those cinema films where you go through the first hour and you're like some pretty cool some pretty good craft on display and then you get past a point and you're like that good will's worn but this is moving at the same this is moving with the same sensibility and it isn't showing any sign of yeah of you know picking up a thing or descending into a thing it seems like and especially with a character you know will have a significant fall even if you don't have the details it does start to feel like you're just going to come kind of see a collection of events until it's done rather than feeling like you're going on a journey that has a momentum of a story like this needs a martin's course as he touch of a of a of a of an individual where you see like the glory that he got to experience of why he'd want that back yeah when he's like talking with the children who admire him like i got no sense of this world that has been developed here yeah that these that that there would be children who would want to like hear from him i got no sense i'm like how i'm so confused on the level of respect because i'm mainly checking in with the other political people yeah dog this guy you know so i'm not really in tune with how everyone else views him so that's why when the soldiers do come around i'm like oh this is kind of a super oh my guys leading them into fighting what the fuck yeah yeah i think this is a case where you could benefit and hey ridley scott i mean like respect to ridley scott because again like half the time he shows back up these days

and i'm like damn dude you'd be cranking out movies like you know these if you spent maybe all of that time on half as many movies maybe they would all be a little bit better but you know he's a pro obviously and something like this especially during the first half I was like man though even at his age and as long as he's been at this Ridley is really you know yeah

and it's a marvel that this looks as good as it does you know for again the fact that he does stay so busy and it is as tangible as it is like it feels dug into but yeah like I don't associate him with the same level of human thoughtfulness like you know Riddley Scott stuff can be big on ideas but I feel like

and just continuing on this Scorsese Touchstone like I do feel like he is a filmmaker who has a certain level of compassion that can carry like even if you're watching a Killers of the Flower Moon who has a lead character and many of your lead characters are like unsavory people half of them are dumb

and narcissistic and whatever else there's still like you can tell that the author of this is looking compassionately at like how the humanity of the situation got this way. And I don't feel like this movie has its eye very much on that, which I think

I don't need a full like I personally got to know the tragedy of Napoleon. Like, you know, you can still be a bit cynical or you can still be a bit of a satire or a farce. But I think yeah, that that humanist angle could have helped

to temper a lot of things across this. All right. It's got a 58% Critics score, 59% audience score. Okay. Wow. The critics score and audio score very much in sync with each other. Sure, yeah. That is very, very much in sync.

Yeah. That's like wild. You never see that. I actually expected one of them to be, like, significantly higher than the other. Oh, that's low. I liked House of Gucci. That was all right. Oh, I want to see House of Gucci.

It's not, I didn't mind it. I didn't love it, but I liked it. Last duel, I just. can't find my can't muster the strength to watch that movie I just can't get mustard the

straight to watch it I'm like I don't know I want to sit through that I just don't want to sit through it and it's the one movie like that too

where I constantly heard people going like actually those of us who went side it's like it's pretty it's one of his best and even still

I'm just like I still just don't know if I'm gonna if I won't even care I just don't want to experience that yeah like I for when this

maybe in like 10 or 15 years when we're far removed from like the moment in time that it was also co-opting to come into existence yeah but uh yeah i mean damn he made the martian 2015 shit i mean yeah like it must i mean according to ryan tomatoes last duel seems like his last

great film which was only in 2021 like like his one that's like oh people think this is a great movie you know yeah and that's the thing is he hasn't gone to that place yet where he like makes one movie every six years so it's like i guess it's easier to look at ridley scottes having lost a touch but then be reminded like but every few movies he has one that people are like this is at least better than just good or maybe even great so like you know i i'm torn because i'm glad to see him still out there still kicking and still you know showing you know that he's got those chops but also there are times where yeah i feel like his curmudgeonliness of the here and now maybe gets in the way of something that could impact a little bit more pressingly and and

permeatingly, so to speak. Yeah. Because, I mean, clearly there's tons and tons of artistry on display. All righty. Well, okay, I'm good, John. Yeah, we're good.

Well, gang, what'd you guys think? Do you love Napoleon now? Do you sympathize with them? Leave us your thoughts. What was your favorite Oscar contender of 2020? Three. Leave it in the C-O-M-M-E-N-T's. and hey before we get out of here

let's do a patron of the day shout out Michael B Omni Media Happy New Year Michael B All righty guys Let me get this out of the way He has a YouTube channel called Omni Media Where he does reactions

He's been on this channel with us I've done a few movies with him It's a cover Tales of the Jedi John covered Mission Impossible with him One movie together And so you could have one One movie and counting Well you know what man

I think for 2024, this whole, like, promoting you thing has to come to it. Because your channel I'm seeing is doing better now. Uh-oh. And frankly, I got a hint of being threatened. Why would you do that to us? This whole, like, reactor community of we got to stick together and help each other out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all just a bunch of feigning pleasantries is what we do.

But we all know that we want to dominate one another. And I don't care what kind deeds you've done. I don't care how long you've been pledged to our Patreon page. Your success is out of spite. Your shit has to end now, all right? Do you be as successful as you want? But from here on out, no more plugging Omni Media. I will not be shouting out.

Oh, M as a mother, N is and Nancy. The number one media. I don't want to do that anymore because watching your reactions to reacher oh sure soka uh echo most recently uh all the movies you've been covering with these great looking thumbnails and wonderful commentary and then every time i open up your videos and just seem like man this guy gets like nothing but positive comments because he's that good i'm sick of talking about it dude absolutely sick of promoting oh as an oh my god he's still here and as a man why do we still keep promoting him and as a no will no longer promote omnibedia one as in there can only be one

like highlander and then media as in i'm going to stop watching his media stop watching the media yeah omni media yeah omni media yeah but in in seriousness you know succeed as much as you can oh yeah and you know come up with some goals for this year yeah yeah yeah think of how you can improve your operation without a you know outstripping ours happy new year you dick