Royal Affairs in Versailles 1954
6.69 /10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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Full Cast & Crew
Jacques Damiens
Cardinal de Rohan
Fénelon
Mrs. de Sévigné
Louis XVI
Museum guard
Neighbor
Cagliostro
Turenne
Rivarol
Mrs. de Montespan
Mrs. de Chalis
Louison Chabray
Peasant
Marivaux
Mrs. Campan
Jean Collinet
Molière
Louis XIV (older)
Museum guard
Louis XV
Louis XIV young
Marie-Antoinette / Nicole Legay
Mrs. de Maintenon
Countess de la Motte
Countess de Soissons
Louise de La Vallière
Axel De Fersen
D'Artagnan
Woman of the people
Mrs. de Pompadour
Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
Gondolier
Lavoisier
Auctioneer
Mr. de Montespan
Museum guard
Mr. de Vergennes
Benjamin Franklin
Louis XIII
Robespierre
Boileau
Mrs. Langlois
Monsieur de la Motte
Buyer
Mazarin
Marie Lekzinska
Duke de Saint-Simon
Revolutionary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mrs. de Kerlor
Miss de Fontanges
Böhmer
Louvois
La Reynie
Elmire
Colbert
English buyer
Mrs. de Nouchy
Revolutionary
Le Vau
Miss de Rosille
Mrs. de Balto
Armande Béjart
Duc de Noailles
Mrs. de Chamarat
Lady of the court
Beaumarchais
Napoléon Ier
Mr. de Carlène
Voltaire
D'Alembert
Mrs. de Senlis
Count de Langeais
Mr. de Beydz
Boileau
Montesquieu
Citizen poet
Henri IV
Louis Philippe 1st
Medium
Visitor (uncredited)
Un homme du peuple (uncredited)
Marc Rétaux de Villette (uncredited)
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Avengers Age of Ultron is an excellent sequel and a worthy MCU title! There are a lot of good and one thing that feels off in my opinion.
THE GOOD:
First off the action in this movie is amazing, to buildings crumbling, to evil blue eyed robots tearing stuff up, this movie has the action perfectly handled. And with that action comes visuals. The visuals are really good, even though you can see clearly where they are through the movie, but that doesn't detract from the experience. While all the CGI glory is taking place, there are lovable characters that are in the mix. First off the original characters, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye, are just as brilliant as they are always. And Joss Whedon fixed my main problem in the first Avengers by putting in more Hawkeye and him more fleshed out. Then there is the new Avengers, Quicksilver, Scarletwich, and Vision, they are pretty cool in my opinion. Vision in particular is pretty amazing in all his scenes.
THE BAD:
The beginning of the film it's fine until towards the second act and there is when it starts to feel a little rushed. Also I do feel like there are scenes missing but there was talk of an extended version on Blu-Ray so that's cool.
I can't right much... it's just so forgettable...Okay, from what I remember, I remember just sitting down on my seat and waiting for the movie to begin. 5 minutes into the movie, boring scene of Tony Stark just talking to his "dead" friends saying it's his fault. 10 minutes in: Boring scene of Ultron and Jarvis having robot space battles(I dunno:/). 15 minutes in: I leave the theatre.2nd attempt at watching it: I fall asleep. What woke me up is the next movie on Netflix when the movie was over.
Bottemline: It's boring...
10/10 because I'm a Marvel Fanboy
If there were not an audience for Marvel comic heroes than clearly these films would not be made, to answer one other reviewer although I sympathize with him somewhat. The world is indeed an infinitely more complex place than the world of Marvel comics with clearly identifiable heroes and villains. But I get the feeling that from Robert Downey, Jr. on down the organizer and prime mover as Iron Man behind the Avengers these players do love doing these roles because it's a lot of fun. If they didn't show that spirit of fun to the audience than these films would never be made.
So in that spirit of fun Avengers: Age Of Ultron comes before us and everyone looks like they're having a good time saving the world. A computer program got loose and took form in this dimension named Ultron and James Spader who is completely unrecognizable is running amuck in the earth. No doubt Star Trek fans took notice that this guy's mission is to cleanse the earth much like that old earth probe NOMAD which got its programming mixed up in that classic Star Trek prime story. Wouldst Captain James T. Kirk of the Enterprise had a crew like Downey has at his command.
My favorite is always Chris Evans because of the whole cast he best gets into the spirit of being a superhero. Of all of them, he's already played two superheroes, Captain America and Johnny Storm the Human Torch. I'll be before he's done Evans will play a couple of more as long as the money's good and he enjoys it.
Pretend you're a kid again and enjoy, don't take it so seriously.
The Avengers raid a Hydra base in Sokovia commanded by Strucker and they retrieve Loki's scepter. They also discover that Strucker had been conducting experiments with the orphan twins Pietro Maximoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who has super speed, and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), who can control minds and project energy. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) discovers an Artificial Intelligence in the scepter and convinces Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) to secretly help him to transfer the A.I. to his Ultron defense system. However, the Ultron understands that is necessary to annihilate mankind to save the planet, attacks the Avengers and flees to Sokovia with the scepter. He builds an armature for self-protection and robots for his army and teams up with the twins. The Avengers go to Clinton Barton's house to recover, but out of the blue, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) arrives and convinces them to fight against Ultron. Will they succeed?
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is an entertaining adventure with impressive special effects and cast. The storyline might be better, since most of the characters do not show any chemistry. However, it is worthwhile watching this film since the amazing special effects are not possible to be described in words. Why Pietro has to die is also not possible to be explained. My vote is eight.
Cast & crew of
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Directors & Credit Writers
Writer
Costume Design
Executive Producer
Producer
Cast
Cardinal de Rohan
Fénelon
Mrs. de Sévigné
Louis XVI
Museum guard
Neighbor
Cagliostro
Turenne
Rivarol
Mrs. de Montespan
Mrs. de Chalis
Louison Chabray
Peasant
Marivaux
Mrs. Campan
Jean Collinet
Molière
Louis XIV (older)
Museum guard
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