Thread by @pptsapper

Welp, time make some toasted cheese, pour a glass of Madeira, and watch Master and Commander

Seems like the thing to do of a Saturday

Full disclosure, it's port, since the local place doesn't carry Madeira. An utterly sorry state of affairs, I know

Straight into my VEINS

This movie is so tremendously sensory. The wind, the creaking of the ships, the slap of the waves. Not a word spoken in the first few moments but so much said

This is just all kinds of perfection

Tom Pullings is just too wonderful for words, as usual

I will never not grin when I see the dear old Surprise

God, what a lovely ship

Normalize military officers playing stringed instruments again

Also normalize formal military dinners with too much alcohol and singing

Oh wait, that's just called a dining-in

Oh well, let's have more of those

All I want is a movie like this about @USSConstitution, is that too much to ask?

You get the full idea of the ship being a living and active being with this movie

Something that exists alongside the men who work her but also apart from them

It's so damn good

You're not human if you have dry eyes when they have to cut away the rigging and lose Will to the sea.

It's a definition of humanity. I didn't make the rules, that's just the way it is

Only the English could think that a flavorless, gelatinous mass is a suitable dessert. I mean, if you're drunk enough, if guess

"Without respect, true discipline goes by the board"

Truer words. That goes both up and down the chain.

Getcha a friend who gives up the chase of a French privateer for you

Mr Blakeney is all that England could be - all that she should be, really

More things should be set to Bach cello suites

And the fire of twelve pounders

I maybe have a problem?

Getcha a friend who abandons a priceless collection of natural history for you to catch a French privateer

Jack: "This ship is England"

Me:

"Let fly!"

Me:

Tom Pullings can get it

Is all I'm saying

How does this get better every time I see it?? Such an incredibly well done piece. Maybe that's why I'm reluctant to see someone else try to take it on

To paraphrase Maturin, it's the film of the world, Jack