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* GeniusBonus: Or rather Reader Bonus. Luke Evans Creator/LukeEvans (Aramis) bears a resemblance to Orlando Bloom Creator/OrlandoBloom (the Duke of Buckingham). In the book, when D'Artagnan first sees the Duke he notes his resemblance to Aramis.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/OrlandoBloom (best known for playing purely heroic characters) plays the evil Count Buckingham. A bit of a ZigZaggingTrope with Creator/MillaJovovich as she's still playing an ActionGirl role, but this time she's playing a DarkActionGirl.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Creator/OrlandoBloom is in this, but he's ''not'' playing D'Artagnan. To be fair he's rather too old to play D'Artagnan in an adaption of the first novel (when the character is very young) and as mentioned above he does get to do a PlayingAgainstType as the evil Buckingham.Buckingham.
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*PlayingAgainstType: Creator/OrlandoBloom (best known for playing purely heroic characters) plays the evil Count Buckingham. A bit of a ZigZaggingTrope with Creator/MillaJovovich as she's still playing an ActionGirl role, but this time she's playing a DarkActionGirl.
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Key word here is premise. Airships are a thing that happens in the movie, not part of the premise. Paul Anderson is the director, not part of the premise.
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** Maybe during his ''Pirates'' days but he's a little too old now, since he's now in his thirties while D'Artagnan is a youth in the book.[[note]]Though that didn't stop Michael York who was also in his thirties when he played the role in the 1970s films. By comparison, Lerman is teenage and Chris O'Donnell in the 1993 film was in his twenties.[[/note]]
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* AwesomeMusic: Whatever else about the film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlOHKVFWi0&list=RD1odL9XoN7qQ&index=5 Paul Haslinger's score]] is a thing of beauty.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paut4zNx-3c The Musketeers fighting]] forty soldiers is easily the high point of the movie. The elements are terrific (Porthos using anything at hand, Athos slamming through ten guys without breaking stride) and the fantastic musical score just makes it all the better.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paut4zNx-3c The Musketeers fighting]] forty soldiers is easily the high point of the movie. The elements are terrific (Porthos using anything at hand, Athos slamming through ten guys without breaking stride) and the fantastic musical score just makes it all the better.
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** Maybe during his ''Pirates'' days but he's a little too old now, since he's now in his thirties while D'Artagnan is a youth in the book.[[note]]Though that didn't stop Michael York who was also in his thirties when he played the role in the 1970s films. By comparison, Lerman is teenage and Chris O'Donnell in the 1993 film was in his twenties.[[/note]]
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Complaining About Shows You Dont Watch is now only about the In Universe usage. Its usage as an Audience Reaction is being removed, as well as usage in criticism on work pages, which is inappropriate regardless.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie has ''[[AccentuateTheNegative nothing]]'' in common with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen it... or they've never read the book. Granting the not inconsiderable changes, the plotline of the Queen's lost diamonds still makes this movie closer to the book than [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 its 1993 namesake]] or the {{wuxia}}-influenced ''The Musketeer'' from 2000.
** Really, the only serious problem the film has is that is shows Louis XIII living in Versailles, when it was actually Louis XIV who converted it from a hunting lodge to a sprawling palace.
*** Or, you know, ''the goddamn airships''.
** Really, the only serious problem the film has is that is shows Louis XIII living in Versailles, when it was actually Louis XIV who converted it from a hunting lodge to a sprawling palace.
*** Or, you know, ''the goddamn airships''.
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* EvilIsSexy: Milady DeWinter.de Winter.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: ''The Three Musketeers'' with airships. ''The Three Musketeers'' directed by [[PaulWSAnderson Paul W. S. Anderson]].
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*** Or, you know, ''the goddamn airships''.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Yet, with its alright cast and production values, the film might have been better as a straightforward adaptation, with no airships -- considering that the last Musketeer movie to hit theaters while including the stolen jewels subplot was the [[TheThreeMusketeers1973 [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 Richard Lester version from 1973-74]]. On the other hand, RuleOfCool.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Yet, with its alright cast and production values, the film might have been better as a straightforward adaptation, with no airships.airships -- considering that the last Musketeer movie to hit theaters while including the stolen jewels subplot was the [[TheThreeMusketeers1973 Richard Lester version from 1973-74]]. On the other hand, RuleOfCool.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: The splendid visuals and some okay performances and action scenes are undercut by the rest of the film.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie has ''nothing'' in common with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen it... or they've never read the book. Granting the not inconsiderable changes, the plotline of the Queen's lost diamonds still makes this movie closer to the book than [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 its 1993 namesake]] or the {{wuxia}}-influenced ''The Musketeer'' from 2000.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie has ''nothing'' ''[[AccentuateTheNegative nothing]]'' in common with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen it... or they've never read the book. Granting the not inconsiderable changes, the plotline of the Queen's lost diamonds still makes this movie closer to the book than [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 its 1993 namesake]] or the {{wuxia}}-influenced ''The Musketeer'' from 2000.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie has ''nothing'' in common with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen this movie...it... or they've never read the book. Granting the not inconsiderable changes, the plotline of the Queen's lost diamonds still makes this movie closer to the book than [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 its 1993 namesake]] or the {{wuxia}}-influenced ''The Musketeer'' from 2000.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie has ''nothing'' in common with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen this movie... or they've never read the book. Granting the not inconsiderable changes, the plotline of the Queen's lost diamonds still makes this movie closer to the book than [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 its 1993 namesake]] or the {{wuxia}}-influenced ''The Musketeer'' from 2000.2000.
* GeniusBonus: Or rather Reader Bonus. Luke Evans (Aramis) bears a resemblance to Orlando Bloom (the Duke of Buckingham). In the book, when D'Artagnan first sees the Duke he notes his resemblance to Aramis.
* GeniusBonus: Or rather Reader Bonus. Luke Evans (Aramis) bears a resemblance to Orlando Bloom (the Duke of Buckingham). In the book, when D'Artagnan first sees the Duke he notes his resemblance to Aramis.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: ''The Three Musketeers'' with airships.
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie hasnothing ''nothing'' in common with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen this movie... or they've never read the book. Granting the not inconsiderable changes, the plotline of the Queen's lost diamonds still makes this movie closer to the book than [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 its 1993 namesake]] or the {{wuxia}}-influenced ''The Musketeer'' from 2000.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie [[AdaptationDecay has nothing in common with]] [[ThreeMusketeers with [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen this movie... or they've never read the book.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The movie was a flop in the US but has been quite successful overseas (even managing to be of the year's biggest films in Germany and Japan).
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* TaintedByThePreview: People were sceptical if this film was going to be any good with the previews... especially with the airship.
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Most of the people who say the movie [[AdaptationDecay has nothing in common with with]] [[ThreeMusketeers the source material]] have either never seen this movie... or they've never read the book.
