Thread by @pptsapper

Well, it's Friday. And apparently there might be some war or something? So might as well do my annual master and commander watch, just in case something were to happen that would prevent the normal one in the summer.

Crispy duck and Madeira pair well with 19th century naval dramas, ijs

My only aspiration is to get to a spot in my career where someone will bring my friend and I toasted cheese and we play stringed instruments

I feel that might be asking for too much, tho

What every dining-in should be

The score to this is so masterful

Talk about using the baroque masters to their best purpose

The perfect movie doesn't exi--

Team Blakeney, all the way

One of the most wonderful lessons of this movie is that those whose business involves death should immerse themselves in the doings of life and the living world around them

Welllll, since I've already got the bottle of Madeira open, might as well watch another movie of the era - one that will test my alcohol consumption limits

1970's Waterloo

Who doesn't love *checks notes* Rod Steiger as Napoleon

Oh gawd, this calls for a whole new level of drunk

Bonaparte meeting with his old generals smacks of Voldemort meeting with the death eaters

But creepier, somehow, because Rod Steiger

Cut to: highlanders dancing in Belgium

Which weirdly reminds me of the time I saw the Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch back in 2012 or so

The other battalion was in Afghanistan

What a weird future we created

Christopher Plummer as Wellington vs Jason Isaacs as Zhukov

"Gin is the spirit of their patriotism"

Don't mock me like that, Wellesley

Somewhere there's a Venn diagram of Christopher Plummer, Rod Steiger, the Red Army, and the Cold War

And apparently that somewhere is this movie

Enter a German to spoil the British fun

*Foreshadowing intensifies*

Of a very odd note, this was filmed in Ukraine...

Now if the Russians could not spoil this location and the people in it, that would be very nice

Rod Steiger's inner Napoleonic dialogue is something no one asked for but here we are, getting it

Thank goodness the marines haven't discovered snuff

That would cause a whole new slew of online training about harmful habits, because they'd be doing it like cocaine

Ok but the charge of the Scots Greys tho

Goddam

Like holy fuck, man

The British squares are sexy, don't tell me otherwise

Damn waste of fine cavalry

Bonaparte yelling about cavalry attacking without infantry support is a tale as old as time

*Tank commanders suddenly feel awkward*

Uh, this is erasure of the King's German Legion at La Haye Sainte

Some British fuckery going on over here

"If there's anything in this world of which I know absolutely nothing, it's agriculture" - Wellington

*George C Marshall calmly attends to his compost pile while dismantling two whole-ass empires*

Anyways, this is a profoundly silly movie