The "Lesser of two weevils" joke is a play on words. In English, there's an expression that goes "Choosing the lesser of two evils," meaning when your options are all bad, you choose the one that is least harmful. Stephen the doctor said he'd choose the bigger one because it's obviously healthier, so Jack's delighted because he can use that wordplay on him. "One must always choose the lesser (in this case smaller) of two weevils!"

@paznewis107

2 ай бұрын

Adding that weevils were the bugs that infested the ships biscuits, ships biscuits being concrete compared to our Biscute.

@JesseOaks-ef9xn

2 ай бұрын

The doctor replied, "He who would make a pun would pick a pocket."

@TriarchVisgroup

2 ай бұрын

@@JesseOaks-ef9xn AKA "Cheap shot, bro."

@thomas8853

2 ай бұрын

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@jefferybarnett6056

2 ай бұрын

Yes the weevils are little beetles that primary eat/infest grains and certain plant stems and roots. In the US long ago there was a terrible infestation of Boll-Weevils that almost wiped out the cotton fields in the South. If you have eaten any grain product, you have certainly eaten a bug or 100...but just didn't know it. Best not to over think it or you will just stop eating all together.. LOL

Why so many kids? The young ones from the upper classes are training to be officers. They are called Midshipmen. The ones from the lowest of low classes (probably orphans) were used to crawl into small spaces. There is a very small passage into where the gunpowers is kept, to reduce the risk of fire spreading to it. Thus, they were called powder monkeys. The in-between ones could sign on to do things like help in the galley (kitchen) and be servents to the officers - called "cabin boys" - and when they got older probably stay on as regular sailors. Some might even become officers.

@LordEriolTolkien

2 ай бұрын

in addition to the fact that in british society at the time children were expected to work from a very early age in all walks of life.

@Cheepchipsable

Ай бұрын

A lot of the sailors were pressed into service, which basically means kidnapped and the ship just didn't go back to Britain for many months, so they stayed for a tour.

@ericsierra-franco7802

Ай бұрын

Adolescence is also a 20th century invention.

This movie is a masterpiece in developing tension.

Sand is spread on the deck to help absorb the blood. So in a way, to prevent slipping along with aiding in keep the rest of the deck free of blood. Something a lot of people don't know is that Lord Nelson lost an arm in battle. You can see his sleeve pinned to his coat in the picture at the beginning of the book. The Captain probably did this to encourage the young man that he still had a future and potential for greatness.

@baron7755

2 ай бұрын

its not just blood, it is cleaning in general

There is a good documentary on the making of this film. They used a real ship, a full scale mock up in a dry dock which was on a massive gimbal and a model.

Less than four minutes in and I'm compelled to answer questions: Before battle they put the boats in the water to prevent them from being destroyed by the massive cannon shot that will rake the ship. Those boats might come in handy in case they lose the battle. Also, if they win. The sand in the "hourglass" on Navy ships lasts 30 minutes. Each time it is turned, the bell is rung, with an additional ring every thirty minutes until you reach eight. Thus, one bell, two bells, three bells, etc help the sailors tell time. At eight bells it is the end of one watch cycle and the beginning of the next. If you rewatch the movie you will notice at the beginning sailors coming down the rigging while other sailors are going up - and eight bells has been rung. "I don't know anything about ships." You're calling it a ship and not a boat, so you are already ahead of the vast majority of movie reactors who have seen this movie. (Edit: never mind)

@Elmarby

2 ай бұрын

I will add: Able Seaman is one of three ranks (or rating) for the average sailor. The three: "Landsman" for the utterly unskilled and unknowledgable that needs to be told what rope to pull. "Ordinary Seaman" for the reasonably capable sailors. "Able Seaman" for the experienced and highly capable you could trust to get the job done.

Oh yes, this is on the one hand one of the historically most accurate (even though the persons and the story are fictional) Hollywood films I've ever seen and on the other hand at the same time a great behaviouristic view on the mechanisms of society in a microcosm like a ship. And of course, good plot, well played, beautifully shot... Love this movie! 👍

the story is mix of two of the books in the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. the captain is actually based on a real Royal Navy officer Thomas Lord Cochrane. and the Officer Lord nelson mentioned in the movie is one of Britain's national heroes basically he defeated Napoleon's navy

Lord Nelson is one of Britain's greatest heroes.

@jean-paulaudette9246

Ай бұрын

Lord-Admiral Horatio Nelson

Wooden splinters caused when the wood is hit by canon fire was one of the biggest dangers in this era. As such, when battle was expected, the boats were towed astern or even set adrift and recovered after the battle.

The Aubrey-Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels-20 completed and one unfinished-by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999.[

Perhaps one of the greatest maritime films ever made. If not mistaken the French Acheron was based on the USS Essex with elements of the cannon proof USS Constitution.

@crackers562

2 ай бұрын

Correct, but that was thought to not sell well in US cinemas :-) so they made it to be a French ship in the movie.

@nataliefaust7959

Ай бұрын

@@crackers562 It's a bloody shame.

the only thing I dislike about this movie: no sequels

@egjundis

2 ай бұрын

We can still hope and pray that the right producer or director has their eyes on this.

@RobRochon

2 ай бұрын

Just reading wiki. Apparently in 2021 it was announced that a prequel was in development. We can only hope it comes through!

@wild_lee_coyote

2 ай бұрын

This was Peter Weirs movie. He has always wanted to make this movie. And had the entire book series bookmarked for this movie. Only Peter Weir can make the sequel.

@Beuwen_The_Dragon

15 күн бұрын

Fifteen or twenty years ago, I’d have said yes.. these days?… I just want it left alone.

@JulioLeonFandinho

12 күн бұрын

Those times when nobody expected sequels, prequels and all that crap... this movie is unique because there are no sequels. It tells a story perfectly told and rounded which doesn't need further explanations of any kind. The only thing you need is watching it and rewatching it the amount of times you want because It never ends, like all the good movies and true works of art, It's freaking infinite. Enjoy it and shut up with all that Hollywood bullshit of sequels and franchises that only consists of recycling the same crap over and over with no meaning whatsoever

Some time ago I saw that some guy had posted a long thread on twitter with curious facts about this film. I really like the film, so I was reading the whole thread, and I saw that Russell Crowe had replied to some of the tweets to add more interesting information that wasn't in the thread. Imagine that, you post about one of your favorite movies on twitter and the main actor of the film sees your tweets and replies to add more information. The fact that there is a chance that you can talk in real time with huge movie stars, politicians, athletes, artists, writers, etc that live in different parts of the world just by texting in your phone is amazing, isn't it? Social media sometimes is incredible.

@matthewdearsley123

2 ай бұрын

and 99.99999999 percent of the time your comment is a string on a database that is never read and slowly contributes to the end of the world via heat exchange on a server....

@asciishallreceive3871

2 ай бұрын

A few years back on a subreddit (s/Movies I think?) Val Kilmer was responding to things people posted and he was a delight to read. After a while I HAD to ask him, "You have a reputation for being a dick but here you seem very nice, why the difference?" and he actually replied that when he started doing more serious acting on the "Island of Dr. Moreau" he had the false belief you had to act out your characters evil ways even off set and it stained his reputation for many years, which he regretted. He has since deleted his account on Reddit and my post and reply is gone. But quite interesting if true.

@Cheepchipsable

Ай бұрын

I would assume most replies under a famous persons account are PAs.

@oslafoirausuebutuoy5457

Ай бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable Not always. In this case, the comments implied it was him writing it. And given that Crowe seems to enjoy using Twitter himself, I believe it was him. He sometimes posts photos of his travels and family, and once he got in trouble for a comment he made on twitter that offended some people.

@jollyrodgers7272

Ай бұрын

...that would be cool as anything! This was the last movie I saw in the theater with my Pops - he taught me to sail at a very young age, and I eventually went on the become a licensed merchant marine master - and we both loved this film.

Early days of baseball? As an Englishman, I have never been so offended!

@tubekulose

2 ай бұрын

I'm not even an Englishman (I'm from Austria) but that hurt me as well when I heard it. 😁

@dougearnest7590

2 ай бұрын

🏏

@enigmamz

2 ай бұрын

As an American, I can let you know that that was clearly cricket (which IS part of what baseball is founded on. The first recorded baseball game was won by a cricket team)

@dougearnest7590

2 ай бұрын

@@enigmamz - Interesting. I heard the first cricket match was also won by a cricket team.

@enigmamz

2 ай бұрын

@@dougearnest7590 Well, it surely wasn't won by a baseball team!

Peter Weir has made some wonderful movies. You need to check out his film "Gallipoli" with a young Mel Gibson

Naval combat in the 18th century involved firing volleys of cannon from one side of the ship toward the enemy, hence the term 'broadsides.' This was largely due to the inaccuracy of early cannon which were only accurate at short range. Therefore tactical maneuvers by warships at sea involved a cat and mouse game of positioning (called the weather gage) in order to be the first one to gain the upper hand by being upwind of the enemy vessel.

@craigplatel813

2 ай бұрын

It was a bit different than just that. French ships tended to have a greater proportion of longer range guns with lighter shot. The British tended to have a greater proportion of shorter range guns with heavier shot. British gun crews were much better drilled with their guns than the French. The French would try to stay out of range of the British to attempt to damage British ships before closing. The British would attempt to close very quickly in order to get it's greater weight of broadside and faster rate of fire against the French.

The doctor plays also "Vision" in the "Avengers"

@timmooney7528

2 ай бұрын

He's also Prince William of Orange on Sharpe's Waterloo.

@darkcommission

2 ай бұрын

@@timmooney7528 And Geoffrey Chaucer (the writer and poet) in "A Knight's Tale" with Heath Ledger 🙂

@user-kg7co9vi5r

2 ай бұрын

​@@darkcommission A Knights Tale would a welcome reaction

On the Galapagos. It was a game of Cricket. Not Baseball. 🙂

@ronmaximilian6953

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, baseball and cricket both grew out of rounders.

@RegelNeue-kk1cg

2 ай бұрын

@@ronmaximilian6953 I've read that both rounders and cricket evolved from an earlier game. The game that was being played in the movie, however, was Cricket (the stumps were clearly visible).

@sitting_nut

Ай бұрын

and far more people play cricket than baseball.

Never thought she would watch this film! This is gonna be a treat!

Good eye, spotting Paul Bettany. He costarred with Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind." Paul Bettany is married to Jennifer Connelley, who played John Nash's wife, Alicia.

Best thumbnail ever.

The movie is set just a few decades before Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands during his 5 year voyage on the Beagle (ship), and actually described the flightless cormorants, swimming iguanas and giant tortoises. So the movie is trying to say that if only these guys had stayed on Galapagos, this doctor would have described those creatures first and, who knows, might have come up with the theory of evolution by natural selection before Darwin.

@BlueDebut

2 ай бұрын

I watch this movie like a year ago and I love going back to reactions about it because so many people have such cool things to say and I never noticed that during the first time I watched it. I feel like this is the sailing ship version of Das Boot and is an icon for maritime nerds like myself 😂

@jean-paulaudette9246

Ай бұрын

Your specificity about the Beagle being a ship made me consider the hilarious alternative, that ol' Chuck got there on the back of a small, furiously paddling dog.

@waratahdavid696

Ай бұрын

"The Maturin Theory"? Mmmm, I could get use to that.

@Cheepchipsable

Ай бұрын

Theory of evolution was already around. Darwin just clarified it since the Galapago had a lot of similar yet different animals to make comparisons with. If he didn't refine it, someone else would since that is how science works.

@Salta0monte

Ай бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable Darwin (and Wallace) came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection, like I said.

"I was joking about operating on myself, good sir" is perhaps the most polite questioning of a movie character's decision that I've ever heard. This is a very good and VERY accurate movie on what sailing and naval combat was like at the time, including that there were often junior officers that were very young. The idea of a teenager is a very modern idea, as soon as a kid work, they did, and for wealthier and more upper class kids, one of the forms that could take was start learning how to sale and command a vessel.

First, it is not a boat, it is a ship. 😀A lot of things in our daily lives, especially in England and the US, comes from Naval history, culture and terminology. This movie is definitely more for guys, the books are a great read for boys. It is very realistic. Like Full Metal Jacket, it strives to show you how it really is, it doesn't need to be fantasy or fast paced. It shows real people in the military/Navy and has full characters. FASTen... Hold FAST; to make secure or to stop and be prepared.

The recoil on the cannons as you mentioned: It was a huge issue. They were trained to stay out of the way. You basically lived with your gun . But if you got caught behind it when it went off, you wouldn't even slow it down. Would likely break both legs and possibly result in death.

From now on we all shall call these islands "Galapallagollos". 😉

One of the most favorite movies of mine! Great reaction as always!

one of my favorite movies....

Lady Biss is so great to watch doing reactions. You can see her figuring out a plan or what is going on, to cool. The kids were normal onboard in the day, some were military sons on board to train the others were used to run gun powder from storage to the cannons.

Lesser of two weevils is a joke about the saying that "one must always choose the lesser of two evils" if forced to make an immoral choice.

This and War of the Worlds used to be my go to movies for subwoofer testing. The cannon blasts you can feel deep in your chest.

This movie has a LOT going on. Always great to see a Biss reaction where the reactor actually sees a lot of the nuance and grasps the symbolic level. ...Plus, the accent still makes everything better, of course.

@dallesamllhals9161

2 ай бұрын

What accent.....dane asking?

@adamwells9352

2 ай бұрын

@@dallesamllhals9161 No denigration intended--Biss speaks what's probably her 4th language much better than I speak a second--but the voiced alveolar trills, the occasional pronunciation struggle, and the vowel changes all give a charming effect, particularly given the high level of the ideas imparted.

@dallesamllhals9161

2 ай бұрын

@@adamwells9352 And I am asking YOU - NOT Biss' Get it?

This was supposed to be the first of a series of nautical films with Captain Aubrey based on classic novels by author Patrick O'Brian. Sadly, the first film cost so much to make (they had to use multiple studios to finance it) and under performed at the box office, which caused the other films to get scrapped. It's a real shame because this was an awesome and highly detail oriented film.

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192

2 ай бұрын

It really was a shame. I would have loved a trilogy of these films😞

You can always tell the women who make good mothers by their reaction to Blakely’s surgery.

@kennymonty8206

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking a long the same lines. I'm kind of surprised that she's not married with a pile of kids, a garden, some animals, and a channel all about it. But, there's many a slip between a cup and a lip.

Can I just say how much I enjoy your character and witty comments? Absolutely love your reaction to this mate!

That look of confusion at the "lesser of two weevils" line was hilarious - because my wife ( who is German ) had that exact same look and also said "I don't get it". It's a play on words. The phrase is "the lesser of two evils" and a weevil is a small insect that you will often find in flour on old sailing ships.

I love that our Bisscute is far quicker on the uptake on many of the plot points than many of the other reactors ever has.

This movie is criminally underrated. It is by far the most realistic and accurate depiction of age-of-sail naval action ever put to film.

Biss: "I know nothing about sheeps." Well, they are four-legged farm animals that produce wool.

Even those of us who do not subscribe to evolution (which takes as much faith as any other explanation due to lack of evidence of macro evolution and the time required) can enjoy the film. I have read all 21 books multiple times and enjoy the heroism and patriotic themes as well as the bro-nance between Aubrey and Maturin. Good react.

About the young boys. They was on their way to become Officers. At this time you were a " Young man" at very young age. And it was common that the middle/upper class sent their sons to begin their education very early on. Sent to boarding school or serve at a ship. If you were poor, you became a simple able sailor. Thou there are examples of some that made their own Fortune 😊

@darkcommission

2 ай бұрын

Yes and the character in question was actually a Lord. Lord William Blakeny 🙂

I love this movie. Incredible and under-rated film.

Russel Crowe character is based slightly off a man who makes most fictional characters look like childs play. That man was "the scourge of the sea" and "the sea wolf" (Napoleon Bonaparte named him that) aka Thomas Cochran. One of the very men who danced with death and lived long enough to pass on old in his home. If you heard of Chile, the sea wolf massively helped liberate Chile as well. And the wolfs most daring moment (he had literally many) was when his fire ship detonated and his ship was burning he left behind his mascot dog. Realizing this this man (and his men who adored an admired him) turned back rowed all the way there. The wolf then jumped in while wounded and swam back climbed up saved the dog and left once again this time for good. The man was literally almost fearless to the bone and he inspired this movie heavily. Nelson was a real man (Horatio Nelson was also the sea wolf mentor) as well and a legend in his own right

A truly great movie

I laughed at your picture for this video, I have "H O L D F A S T" tattooed on my fingers.

A large amount of the film footage of the storm during the passage of Cape Horn was actually taken from the replica wooden sailing ship HM Bark Endeavour.

Weevils are the"worms" on the bread. They are a bug that is notorious for infesting wheat, and some their eggs would survive the milling process, and they would hatch in the flour used for cooking. Just one of the hazards of the sailing days.

The little kid plays Cesar 2.0 in Rome... which is a great tv show from way back when... you should watch if you love history or Rome.

Years ago I bought the DVD of this movie on a whim. I was glad I did, it`s fantastic. :)

I am only 7 minutes in, and I already have to comment! Reactors with far more exposure to the history of England, the age of sail, and 19th-century naval warfare seem totally confused by what they are watching… you, however, are putting things together , accurately, on the fly - because YOU have a brain and actually use it to try to understand what the story, the actors, and the director are trying to tell us. I came to your channel because you are “ bisscute”, but I stayed and subscribed because you are “bissSMART” !

They got wind and rain not when Hollum died, but when the captain asked God for forgiveness.

I can't see how this got past me: one of my favorite reactors, watching one of my favorite films? Astounding.

@BissFlix

Ай бұрын

Yeah KZread is like that sometimes but I’m glad you got to watch it

It was cricket, not baseball.

Able seaman is like a rank - it means he can do any of the jobs on a ship - row, handle the sails, etc.

By many historians, this is the best and most accurate military drama ever made. It is also one of the only that details the most dominant form of warfare that existed for over 500 years, from the first broadside fired at Constantinople, to the iron clad ships at the end of the age of sail. It's history worth paying attention to, and it's one of my favorite movies.

@BissFlix

Ай бұрын

That is amazing, how accurate it is. Thanks for watching

The director/co-writer of this film is called Peter Weir. He is one of the best directors of the last 50 years. His career is filled with great movies. One of his top best he made it in his native Australia back in 1975 cslled PICNIC AT HANGING PARK. It is a masterpiece of cinena and often voted the best australian movie ever made. Hype aside, it is a genuinely great movie that still holds up very well today

One thing no one mentions about this movie. It has this in common with the books. When you read then you are instantly transported to the past. There is no "In a galaxy long ago". You are there and you have to figure it out.

21:36 I went around Cape Horn onboard the Nimitz (1068 feet long Aircraft Carrier) in July 1987 (their winter) and in a storm. The waves went over the flight deck, which is 4 stories up! I could not imagine going through that in a wooden sailing vessel!

@jacobwalsh1888

Ай бұрын

It must have been an amazing experience to be standing on one of the largest warships ever built and still see waves coming over the deck. The sea is vast, and for all of our technology, still terrifying.

This movie helps to see something different of a sailing ship that isn't a pirate movie. It is a bit of a war movie but, it looks mostly at sailors and the line between rank and relationships. The seek and destroy /hide and seek part serves to build tension and give a purpose to the story.

I’ve never seen a bad Peter Weir movie. Thank you for reacting to this.

As some trivia, in the original novel the antagonists in this specific story are Americans, and the specific backdrop is the Anglo-American war of 1812. The producers thought that USA as a villain would hurt box office in North America so they switched it to be just a more "generic" part of the Napoleonic wars against a French ship.

There are 20 books by Patrick O'Brian in this series (he was working on book 21 when he passed away). The books are fantastic and this movie lives up to that standard. It is a shame they never made more of them.

Imagine being in a sea battle in those days with nothing but water all around and zero hope of anyone coming to your aid. Swimming doesn't come to mind as a viable option.

The water was so cold he couldn't swim long

England Expects Every Man To Do His Duty. Nelson’s message to the fleet Battle of Trafalgar.

In the books the film is based on, the enemy ship is actually an American ship, because the USA had recently fought the British Empire for its independence, and was continuing to side with England's enemies at sea in that particular year. That's why it's so personal for Captain Aubrey, because the enemy Captain is his own cousin, who he considers a traitor, and that's why he is able to predict the other Captain's plans because they think alike. The books are _Master,_ and _Commander_ because they follow Jack Aubrey's career as he rises through those ranks in the Royal Navy. There have been several famous novel series which follow a single character as he lives through the various ranks of officers in the Royal Navy in this period, beginning with the _Hornblower_ series and before the _Aubrey_ books, there was a big series based on a character surnamed _Bolitho,_ which they made some UK TV movies of, if you want to watch more of this sort of thing. Daring young sailors having adventures and battles against the French and Spanish. Now I check, I see that the more recent TV film series was a run of _Hornblower_ films from 1998-2003. That would probably be more fun to watch just because of the better production values. I've read most of the Bolitho books but not watched the films, and I watched the Hornblower films but never read the books. I thought the Hornblower films were great, but make up your own mind.

@baron7755

2 ай бұрын

there was no American naval captain cousin of Jack's in the books, Jack's cousins were all British officer s

@patrickholt2270

2 ай бұрын

@@baron7755 It appears you are correct. I was misled. According to the wiki about the book _The Far Side Of The World_ there is a nephew of a previous friend of Aubrey's on the USS Norfolk, the ship the Surprise is sent to stop attacking English whalers: "Lieutenant Lawrence: Prize captain from USS Norfolk, in his turn taken when HMS Surprise retook Danae in the Atlantic. He is a close relative of Captain James Lawrence, who visited Aubrey in Boston in Surgeon's Mate. On a coral island in the Pacific Captain Palmer: Captain of the USS Norfolk."

The flag is very important, yes! If they attack before they've clearly identified themselves by their nation, they're committing actual piracy.

Yes great reaction. The kids the midshipman could be sent to Sea s early as 11 or 12 years old. They have education therefore the midshipman rank places them at in the middle between officers and the ratings so they are at this point they have some status.( British Class system at work)

@10:07 a weevil is the insect. "I would choose the lesser of two EVILS" is the saying when you have to choose from a bad option for an even worse one.

A great movie showing life at sea in those times.

This is such a good movie! I honestly didn't expect much from it when I first saw it, maybe it was the title, but it became a favorite.

Great film. Consider Lawrence of Arabia or Bridge on the River Kwai, both masterpieces from legendary director David Lean.

@rayvanhorn1534

2 ай бұрын

Excellent suggestions sir! I’d also throw in “Dr Zhivago”.

Just to give some time specifications. This story takes place in 1805. Darwin made his travel on the ship Beagle (where he also visited Galapagos and was inspired to work on his theory of natural selection/evolution) between 1831 and 1836. First time he published his book Origin of Species in 1859. Of course there were other "naturalists" who were dealing with similar idea earlier, Lamarck was the most significant, he formulated his theory (that is correctly assuming evolution, but he did not correctly recognized her mechanisms) on the beginning of 19th century already. But Darwin was the first who formulated the evolution mechanisms as they are accepted till now and published it in comprehensive theory. The movie plays with the idea what if a naturalist visited Galapagos earlier than Darwin.

Hold fast, biss😁 great movie👍 russell Crowe was great in this👍 thanks for sharing😁👍

A very long time ago I was a U.S. Naval Sea Cadet. At 15 was my first time at General Quarters for real. They don’t do that anymore. Sad.

I appreciate that you are very intelligent....I appreciate more that you can put your thoughts into words and that you are open-minded towards all the movies that you screen. We are generations apart and separated by an ocean, but I am sure we are kindred spirits. Keep up the great work !

The acheron held double the guns of surprise and she had a double hull which gave her the means of shrugging off the surprise guns

I will always give you a like and a comment @Bisscute. Sometimes your patreons lead you astray but im always here like I've been from Ramstein in Paris❤

Going into battle, the small boats were lowered and towed behind the ship to prevent them from being damaged in the fight.

Another older movie about the same era is 'Captain Horatio Hornblower'. One of my favs.

@BissFlix

Ай бұрын

Noted, ty

One of the musical themes they play is: Los Españoles se divierten por las calles de Madrid (Boccherini)

The pacing is one of my favorite things about this film. Your pronunciation of Galapagos is my favorite thing about this reaction.

@BissFlix

Ай бұрын

Thank you

The doctor that operated on himself... is something that actually happened during an expedition back in those days... he was the only doctor on the crew and had appendicitis...so he had to remove his own appendix... and he lived. Bad ass.

Excellent movie, one of my favorites and with a good surround system it’s awesome! Thanks

The big danger in battle is shrapnel from the ship beefing hit with cannonballs. It’s like being hit with some kind of wooden machine gun.

Wow, I have a degree in anthropology and I totally respect what you say. I was working on a paper on the evolution of teeth. I'd love to just have a chat.

The reason for evolution playing a part here is because it was the Galapagos Islands where the idea of evolution first "solidified" for Darwin. He had seen many other islands and noticed that they contained unique species; but in the Galapagos it became particularly clear that the animals were much LIKE the animals on the mainland -- but with small changes. It occurred to him that the animals could have perhaps floated to the islands and then EVOLVED to better suit the conditions there. The movie presents the fun idea that if only the ship's doctor had a chance to see that then he might have himself come up with the idea of evolution.

A weevil is a small insect that would infest the dry food supplies of ships in the day. Don't forget the ship is a military ship, and must carry out it's duty if it can. 23:26, Pippin!

This movie is remarkably accurate to the period, but still does not fully transmit the full horror. The smell alone would be abominable. Everything would be damp all the time. limited rations. Cramped conditions. Brutal discipline. Hard Work. Cold weather. Attrition rates of sailors in combat were horrendous. Diseases. Rats. It would have made a man hard, or broken him.

"HOLDFAST" is the Clan MacLeod of Scotland's motto. Like Highlander, but better. Never forget that.

This was better than Gladiator

13:15 "Why are there so many kids?" Two types of boys /Addolescents in the movie. So: - The young men who are dresseed smartly with hats and jackets are Midshipmen. They are officers-in-training: that is, young men (teenagers, usually) preparing to become officers, and receiving their learning on war ships. While they were not yet formally officers, they would still expected to be treated as such (This is why the later issue with sailor disrespecting Hollom is such a big problem). This situation was normal in the British Navy at the time. - the solitary boy who appears at 13:03 is part of the crew. He does not seem to have much of an impact in the plot. He could have simply been hired to work on the ship.

Great reaction to a movie I absolutely adore. Thank you, Madalina ❤

Peter is awesome. He was with Al Stewart (Year of the Cat/Time Passages) for a long time… but I didn’t know him really until I heard him with Basia & Matt Bianco. I freakin’ love Basia, and Danny White - Peter’s brother (who was a keyboardist)- founded Matt Bianco with singer mark Reilly. Peter played on pretty much all of Basia’s albums. I saw Peter with Dave Koz’ band (also with Rick Braun), and they were very good! You should check out Basia’s Time & Tide - or just about anything! And Matt Bianco is so cool - my fave album is Matt’s Mood or Whose Side are You On?

The Surprise was disguised as a whaling ship. Whalers cook the blubber from the whales they catch, to release the valuable whale oil, that is why they were burning old rope, so that they would look more like a whaler.

The Acheron in this movie was based on the frigates like the Constitution. It is still in active service in the United States Navy.

For me this is a perfect movie in every regard.

The beetle camouflaging itself as something else really plays into the twist at the end. Very well written story.

"It's a meenee sheeep"