Comments on: Kill him for me, Marv, kill him good http://filmjournal.net/robertsharp/2007/12/03/kill-him-for-me-marv-kill-him-good/ These are the films I watch each week on DVD, Blu-ray and at the cinema Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:44:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: John Hodson http://filmjournal.net/robertsharp/2007/12/03/kill-him-for-me-marv-kill-him-good/#comment-875 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:41:21 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/robertsharp/2007/12/03/kill-him-for-me-marv-kill-him-good/#comment-875 You will be royally entertained and enthralled by O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin novels; I envy anyone reading them for the first time. You'll discover that the film is an amalgam of several of the books, not just the two usually referred to; watch it again after you've read them (which is no hardship, it a marvellous piece of work), and you'll see bits of narrative and characters referred to from across the series. I was hoping for a sequel myself, but I'm content now with the one, nigh on perfect, film. You will be royally entertained and enthralled by O’Brian’s Aubrey / Maturin novels; I envy anyone reading them for the first time.

You’ll discover that the film is an amalgam of several of the books, not just the two usually referred to; watch it again after you’ve read them (which is no hardship, it a marvellous piece of work), and you’ll see bits of narrative and characters referred to from across the series.

I was hoping for a sequel myself, but I’m content now with the one, nigh on perfect, film.

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