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<blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8971513" data-attributes="member: 86051">Heh. I have to admit that I hadn't seen the movie in decades when I fairly recently acquired a copy of it and gleefully sat down to watch it - only to find out that it hadn't aged well at all, imo, so much so, in fact, that I didn't make it pas the first 15 minutes. However, posting the above made me hunker for it once more so I'm gonna watch it again some time soon. Knowing that my memory of it is flawed, I now fully intent to sit through the whole movie to get to the bits I like most when I saw it as a nipper.I saw both movies when I was a lot younger and I absolutely adored them. The panache, the elegance, the drama, the dark side, the humor, madame Bonacieux, the countryside, the cardinal and the court, the witty repartee, the nonchalance, the swashbuckling, the story, everything was brilliant. So imagine my great joy when I later found out that I had seen versions of the movies cut for television and acquired the uncut versions. Tonnerre! I still love these movies today and I know I'm gonna wallow in them once more when I watch them again after I've seen Robin Hood.I've also read the books a couple of years ago, including the follow-ups, and they are brilliant. Not quite Dickens, but the language, the setting, and how the characters behave in the milieu of the time more than make up for that. The only regret I have is that my French isn't good enough to understand the nuances and that I have to read them in English. Pity, for there's always things lost in translation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ilgatto, post: 8971513, member: 86051"] Heh. I have to admit that I hadn't seen the movie in decades when I fairly recently acquired a copy of it and gleefully sat down to watch it - only to find out that it hadn't aged well at all, imo, so much so, in fact, that I didn't make it pas the first 15 minutes. However, posting the above made me hunker for it once more so I'm gonna watch it again some time soon. Knowing that my memory of it is flawed, I now fully intent to sit through the whole movie to get to the bits I like most when I saw it as a nipper. I saw both movies when I was a lot younger and I absolutely adored them. The panache, the elegance, the drama, the dark side, the humor, madame Bonacieux, the countryside, the cardinal and the court, the witty repartee, the nonchalance, the swashbuckling, the story, everything was brilliant. So imagine my great joy when I later found out that I had seen versions of the movies cut for television and acquired the uncut versions. [I]Tonnerre![/I] I still love these movies today and I know I'm gonna wallow in them once more when I watch them again after I've seen Robin Hood. I've also read the books a couple of years ago, including the follow-ups, and they are brilliant. Not [I]quite[/I] Dickens, but the language, the setting, and how the characters behave in the [I]milieu[/I] of the time more than make up for that. The only regret I have is that my French isn't good enough to understand the nuances and that I have to read them in English. Pity, for there's always things lost in translation. [/QUOTE]

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