The lesser of two weevils: Screen Junkies salutes Master and Commander
The new Honest Trailer for Peter Weir's 2003 sea epic reads more like a love letter than a roast, and viewers are asking why there was never a sequel.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 451,006 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (20,271).
Honest Trailers | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Honest Trailers usually come to bury a movie. This time the Screen Junkies team seems to have shown up mostly to praise one. "Honest Trailers | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" passed 300,000 views in its first eleven hours, a pace that puts it far ahead of a typical new upload on the channel.
The description explains the choice: Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany both have new shows out, so the writers went back to the film that paired them as Captain Jack Aubrey and the ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. Peter Weir's adaptation of Patrick O'Brian's novels follows a British frigate chasing a French warship around Cape Horn during the Napoleonic Wars. The description leans into the period with mock-patriotic questions about guillotines in Piccadilly. Jon Bailey, the Epic Voice Guy, narrates a script by Spencer Gilbert and Lon Harris.
The comments read like a reunion of people who have been waiting years to talk about this movie. Many notice that the narrator, for once, basically admits the film rocks. Others swap dads who read every book or took up tall ships after seeing it, quote Aubrey's weevil pun back at each other, and make the case for more films about men who are simply good at their jobs. A popular complaint: one Master and Commander, five Pirates of the Caribbean.
It arrived the day after the team's Honest Interview with Mike Flanagan and the cast of his Carrie series, which has drawn a much smaller crowd so far.
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What viewers say
the rare movie where the honest trailer voice guy is like "yeah, this rocks"
@graysonmakesfilmsSee it on YouTubeThe lesser of two weevils is the GOAT movie dad joke.
@sudevsenSee it on YouTubeWe unironically need more "guys being good at their jobs" movies.
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- Channel
- Screen Junkies
- Subscribers
- 6,760,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,484,137
- Channel views, pace per day
- 337,874 (on a normal day: 257,618)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 296,767 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 451,006
The numbers
Here is how the Master and Commander episode compares with the channel's usual first day.
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Who directed Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World?
The Australian filmmaker Peter Weir directed the 2003 film, which earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
