Once we’re done scrolling past a neat, toy-soldiers-on-map version of Europe, The Three Musketeers gives us a steampunk scuba diver emerging from the canals of Venice with repeating crossbows.
Okay, so it’s going to be THAT kind of movie.
See, this is the information that I need when making cinematic viewing choices.
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So, there I am, in the movie theater, and I’m seeing the preview for the Three Musketeers movie…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38an1IAG1TA
…and I’m asking myself: Why? What was wrong with the ones that George MacDonald Fraser wrote the scripts for*? What are they going to possibly do differently, this go-round?
Then I see this on the screen.
Yup. Seventeenth-century lighter-than-air sky galleons with cannons. These beauties are apparently integral to the plot.
Well. That’s certainly… something new.
Moe Lane
