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Old 12-08-2011, 09:56 PM
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The Voyage of Charles Darwin (1978)
The Voyage of the Beagle (2009)

No one's going to admit they watched The Love Boat, are they?

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The Voyage of Charles Darwin (1978)
The Voyage of the Beagle (2009)

No one's going to admit they watched The Love Boat, are they?

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Old 12-09-2011, 08:09 AM
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The 1987 version of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Sign of Four" (with
Jeremy Brett as Holmes) has a long chase scene along the Thames in some
beautiful little steamboats.
There are also long scenes of the "Baker Street Irregulars" searching for
a boat through many river-side operations. Great reconstructions of the era!
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Old 12-09-2011, 01:06 PM
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Master and Commander - I read the whole series of books. The movie is good but isn'tanywhere near as good as the books.
Quite so. In fact, the movie, though good, was a travesty. It should have been done about the story of the first Master and Commander book by Patrick O'Brian, not one about ninth in the series. The movie version was just a bunch of guys in a single ship, never seeing land - whereas the book was a rollicking piratical tale in the Mediterranean, with wine, women and song, pitched battles, sinkings, burnings and captures, adultery, naval political intrigue and bulkhead-to-bulkhead orgies belowdeck.

The director certainly missed a few tricks!
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Old 12-09-2011, 01:34 PM
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My family really enjoyed the Hornblower TV series, but none of us have read the books.
Were they true to the original stories?
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Old 12-10-2011, 01:48 PM
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Old 12-10-2011, 02:03 PM
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My family really enjoyed the Hornblower TV series, but none of us have read the books.
Were they true to the original stories?
I used to read the books (not all of them, but quite a few) as a child and absolutely loved them - a highly recommended read.

Recently I came across said TV series (internet stream, what a great invention! ) which I also enjoyed but this is only loosely based on the original book series using some of the characters from the novels and parts of the plot.

OK, this is about movies: There's a nice German TV series of Erskine Childer's "The Riddle of the Sands" from 1984 with 10 episodes of about 45 minutes each. I don't know if there's an English dubbed or at least subtitled version but they nicely captured the joy of small boat sailing in the tideland. Childer's book is also a must-read, by the way, and also one of my favorite books when I was a kid.
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Where are all the swashbucklers? There must be fifty of them.

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That is a cool video, "The Little Ships Of England". Well worth watching
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reminds me of another- Snowgoose.
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