re: #179 subsailor68

Hi Cato! I’ll second that. It’s one of my favorite movies - and the books were wonderful. Crowe worked for me as Jack Aubrey, but I had a little trouble with Paul Bettany as Maturin (who in the books is quite homely). Bettany is a little too handsome for the role.

(There’s talk about a sequel, but we’ll see.)

I would love a sequel.

Agree about Maturin, but every lead in the movies today has to be pretty.

I was thinking about that while obsessively watching the first two seasons of “Dexter” last week. There is not a homely person in there except for the bad guys and the occasional background stroller. You would think that the entire city of Miami is buff, young, pretty and slender, including the skanks at NL meetings.