The Musketeers...bahhhh!

[pastafreak]

45 minutes in,and it bears no resemblance to the book....the beginning is totally different. Don't think I am going to bother watching after all.

Why can't they make a version true to the original?

[emmie]

a load of old botox then

[DTCwordfan]

absolutement!

[emmie]

thought so, my French isn't bad, but couldn't quite figure it out.

[Ken4155]

I don't mind the fact that it bears no resemblance to the book. The previews i read warned me of that and i grew to love Merlin and Sherlock. But the Musketeers storyline was weak and predictable, the attempt at humour juvenile and the acting rather wooden. I'm afraid it's a NO from me.

[quizzywig]

Sherlock is brilliant and I loved Merlin - didn't care how they twiddled with the legend - great stuff. Like I said before The Musketeers is very good entertainment - better than rubbish shows with celebs anyway!

[Ken4155]

"better than rubbish shows with celebs anyway!

Hardly an endorsement, quizzywig. The old 'test card' was better than rubbish shows with celebs.

[whiskeryron]

Any presentation that tells the story of a well known book has got to be factual for me. The legend of King Arthur & the round table was completely spoiled when trying to watch the production of Merlin, for starters in the original tale Merlin was the one who arranged the get together of Arthur's father & the lady he lusted after who was married to another nobleman. For Merlin to be a young man roughly the same age as Arthur in the TV series was ludicrous. I have recorded the first episode of The Musketeers & if it proves as daft when I get to watch it it will get the boot.

WR.

[Ken4155]

Start swinging that foot, Ron

[gingejbee]

ron: it WASN'T telling the story of a well-known book...that's the whole point. People on here can't tell the difference between "The Three Musketeers" - a television adaptation (which this wasn't) ...and "The Musketeers" -based on the characters by A. Dumas (which this was).

[emmie]

you are right it;s not a retelling of The Three Musketeers, i think most people get that

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/New-Musketeers-cynical-modern-audience/story-20459086-detail/story.html

[emmie]

A Dumas book is called The Three Musketeers, a copy is sitting on my shelf, one i will read again one of these days.

[pastafreak]

Guess you didn't like it,DT...;-)

[emmie]

after ten minutes i gave up, perhaps i should have persevered, i felt the same about Merlin, and that other nonsense Atlantis.

[DTCwordfan]

Correct - inane drivel.

[pastafreak]

When I see the phrase "based on", I still do not expect to see a complete rewriting of the original. Rather more stories in the same vein,using the original characters.

[redman41]

There have been so many versions of 'The Musketeers', both for the TV and the Cinema over decades, viewers have had enough of dross.
If you are going to make a decent Film, use top Actors and a strong storyline, otherwise why bother. It's been done to death

[pastafreak]

I think a lot of reviewers,while enjoying it as a historical 'romp',saw it as directed at younger viewers...and NOT at those of us who may have read the book.

[Ken4155]

Which, pastafreak, must surely beg the question, why base it on the Dumas characters at all? After all, there were entire regiments of musketeers of which, Athos, Porthos and Aramis were just 3.

[DTCwordfan]

The Musketeers - simply it should be taken out and shot........

[DTCwordfan]

Agree Ken - they could have used D'Argentine, Orthopaedics, Pathos and Lynx as the four main characters.