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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 22:15:18 GMT
I watched this last night as whilst I'm familar with the Battle of the Nile/Aboukir Bay, Napoleon's Egyptian campaign in general is largely unfamilar to me. The peculiar mixture of military rapaciousness and scholarly intent in the expedition was remarkable. There was plenty of fascinating information to be had. However, I was constantly on the point of giving up because of the presentation. There were the inevitable reconstructions. Cheap CGI which looked like it had come out of a computer game, mixed with really obvious greenscreen. It was a French production originally, so the characters were obviously speaking French in the original version, but instead of subtitling the dialogue of the reconstructions they dubbed them into English, incredibly badly. Whoever was doing the voices made no attempt to 'act' the parts - it was just a bland reading of the lines. Of course I don't know what the original actors sounded like, but the voices of the people doing the dub didn't seem to match them at all - so a gruff, veteran soldier in his 50s (I suppose) sounded like a 30-year old accountant! It was so distracting, in the end I could only 'watch' it by looking away during the dramatised parts.
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