I saw "The Musketeer" at the movies. I'll pay for just about any sword fighting movie if it's decent. I enjoyed the action, even though as you say, it was incredibly anachronistic, with Eastern style fighting and modern gymnastics grafted onto the sword techniques of the era. I think the fight choreography was handled in part by the same group of guys who are famous for teaching fighting techniques for movies like "The Matrix", "Kill Bill", etc. Even though the mashup was nuts, I did enjoy the fighting, and I will at least say that for as quick as the action was, the camera was kinder than is typical in more stuff nowadays.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <[email protected]> To: "SciFiNoir2" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 4:18:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] "La Femme Musketeer" on Hallmark Movie Channel I just came in the door, Keith, and there's nothing on there but the usual Hallmark fare, so I take it that I've missed it. I'll keep an eye out for it. Have you ever seen Peter Hyams' "The Musketeer"? It's a crazy East-meets-West melange of action, wrapped around a paper-thin plot which elevates D'Artangan to the sole focus of the thing and relegates all the rest of the Musketeers to second-banana status. (Oh, and makes D'Artangan part-007, too, thanks to a wagonload of gadgets and a scruffy-looking Q.) As for the Balkans being the location of so many Skiffy and Skiffy-type flicks? That's EuroCanada, home of low production values. Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.
