The Three Musketeers (1973) is the best version ever.

[phikappa]

It's playing now on AMC. The actors...awesome. Oliver Reed = alpha male. Charlton Heston = alpha male. Raquel Welsh = alpha female. The sets, direction, costumes, the acting, the script....totally complete. Humor, suspense, action, drama...the whole shi-bang. You could actually see and follow the fight scenes. This is before all the shaky camera crap they do today.

I remember the first time I saw it. Probably around '75. My dad was working as an AV director for a large hotel. He had a copy of the movie on film (this is before VHS). He brought home the movie and a projector and we watched it in the living room. It was awesome. I've loved it ever since.

[LisaSkinnoble]

Excellent, without question!

I love The Man In The Iron Mask (1998, I think). Gérard Depardieu is priceless in that movie!

[phikappa]

Excellent, without question!

I love The Man In The Iron Mask (1998, I think). Gérard Depardieu is priceless in that movie!

I've seen most of that movie (not all). A good one as well.



D'Artagnan's assistant is actually playing the part of R2D2 and C2PO (a bumbling fool in the background who's never in real trouble). Several years before Star Wars. Although R2D2 and C3PO were technically taken from a Japanese film.

[Marius_Ursus]

It's playing now on AMC. The actors...awesome. Oliver Reed = alpha male. Charlton Heston = alpha male. Raquel Welsh = alpha female. The sets, direction, costumes, the acting, the script....totally complete. Humor, suspense, action, drama...the whole shi-bang. You could actually see and follow the fight scenes. This is before all the shaky camera crap they do today.

I remember the first time I saw it. Probably around '75. My dad was working as an AV director for a large hotel. He had a copy of the movie on film (this is before VHS). He brought home the movie and a projector and we watched it in the living room. It was awesome. I've loved it ever since.

"You, sir! Without the eye!"

Best.

Line.

Evar.

[paolo59]

I love a good flic based on something from the past; made up, or the real deal. I've never seen a better movie than "The Lion In Winter," Catherine Hepburne, Peter O'toole! It won like 35 Oscars! LOL I think it was one of those 50's movies. Perhaps made before I was born, or just a wee-one. Incredible acting. That's why one goes to the movies, no?

[GuyJin]

I'll second the motion of the '73 version being the best of The Three Musketeers. Everything now is slow-mo, comin'-at-ya type of stuff which is fun the first time around...and then it gets stale real fast.

The Man Who Would be King with Sean Connery and Michael Caine was a wonderful movie. Michael Caine, indomitable to the end, finishes out the movie, crippled, half-blind, and ready for more. I could watch that movie over and over and still never tire of it!

[phikappa]

"You, sir! Without the eye!"

Best.

Line.

Evar.

I love all those mini-lines in the movie (typically made in the background by support actors). My fave is "He tore our carpet".

[KLMARB]

I also agree. Hard to beat that excellent cast....