All right, we're going to do a little series of videos called The Movies Every Man Must Watch.

These are films that if you're a man, need to watch, and if you're a father, you should watch with your son.

For this first video in the series, we're going to start with one of my favorite films of all time.

It's called Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World.

It was released in 2003.

It was directed by Peter Ware, who also directed another one of my favorite films, The Truman Show.

Master and Commander enjoyed only modest success in the box office when it released.

It debuted at number two and got beat by Elf, which was in its second week of release.

Incidentally, if Master and Commander is one of the most underrated movies of this century, the movie that beat it, Elf, is certainly one of the most overrated.

You sit on a throne of lies. But this is not a video where we're complaining about bad

movies. It's one where I want to talk about a good movie. Master and Commander is a great

film, and it has a pretty simple plot. It follows a British naval ship in 1805 patrolling the Pacific, and in the beginning of the

film, the ship, Captain by Russell Crowe's Captain Jack Aubrey, is pummeled in a surprise

attack by a French privateer ship called the Akron.

And Captain Jack's ship, the surprise, is badly damaged in the assault, but not destroyed.

And the rest of the film follows Captain Jack and his crew as they pursue the French ship around the Pacific.

And finally, spoiler alert, we are going to be talking about spoilers here.

So at the end, they finally catch up to their French antagonist, and they pull off a brilliant sneak attack that leads to one of the great climactic battle scenes you'll ever see in any film.

Far as sheba!

In between the two battles that bookend the film,

we get to see a very accurate depiction of life

aboard an early 19th century military ship.

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