*patiently waiting for Gaffer and Warbler and Perhaps Sluggo to chime in about Inception*
We just watched the Lester/Salkind Three and Four Musketeers. I really liked these 20 years ago... now I can't really understand what there was to like. And the overt 70s... erm... looseness of all of the main characters seems really odd now. D'Artagnan spends a lot of the movie proclaiming his love for Constance while sleeping with every chambermaid he meets while trying to rescue the love of his life. I can't remember... but that's not really a part of the book, right? The first two movies are rated PG and there's not really anything specific that would warrant a higher rating... but you can tell these movies really want to be R.
And the fight choreography... is weird. I'm not sure if it's intentional, or perhaps a bunch of actors refusing to take sword fighting lessons, but they are, to use the words of my wife, "total spazzes" in the fights. It's possible it's more realistic than the slick choreography of today's films... but it looks really random and that basically the good guys win out of sheer luck.
In conclusion, these are coming off my shelf and going straight onto the forsale pile. Hopefully I can get $75 out them like I did Tron.