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Absolutely brilliant. You want Samurais? You got it! You want Ninjas? You got it! You want Samurais fighting Ninjas? Hell yeah, you got that too! The only thing missing was Godzilla, otherwise this was one of the best films I've seen for a long, long time. The fighting scenes were just intense, amazing, gory, stabby - just fricking brilliant. Even Cruise looks good with a sword. Forget what you think about him - Cocktail, Top Gun - this movie suited him down to the ground, and he did good. The main reason it was so excellent is that Samurais and Ninjas are really cool. Even cooler than robots, Mr Frosty, and robots that serve Mr Frosty's from their chest compartments!
Now get this: the battle scenes were BETTER THAN LORD OF THE RINGS. You got that? Better. You know the way LOTR made the Matrix look like a shallow special effects movie? Well, The Last Samurai did exactly that to LOTR. I don't think any of the scenes were CG - just people with swords, hitting and stabbing, and exploding with blood! That's what ruins LOTR - it's obviously CG, so you can't have any compassion when ORC_SPRITE_1167, or whatever gets hit by an CG arrow. Now horses getting hit by cannonfire - that'll do me.
I'll ruin something for you now - Billy Connolly gets killed after about 15 minutes. But this is a good thing, because it means that he can't be in the rest of the movie. Leaves more room for Samurais, see, which can only be a good thing.
Now get this: the battle scenes were BETTER THAN LORD OF THE RINGS. You got that? Better. You know the way LOTR made the Matrix look like a shallow special effects movie? Well, The Last Samurai did exactly that to LOTR. I don't think any of the scenes were CG - just people with swords, hitting and stabbing, and exploding with blood! That's what ruins LOTR - it's obviously CG, so you can't have any compassion when ORC_SPRITE_1167, or whatever gets hit by an CG arrow. Now horses getting hit by cannonfire - that'll do me.
I'll ruin something for you now - Billy Connolly gets killed after about 15 minutes. But this is a good thing, because it means that he can't be in the rest of the movie. Leaves more room for Samurais, see, which can only be a good thing.
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Goatboy wrote:
> I get confused.
Ninjas and Samurais will un-confuse you!
> I get confused.
Ninjas and Samurais will un-confuse you!
cipro wrote:
> I'm going to watch this on Sunday for one basic reason. Samurai's, if
> every a film director want me to see his film all he needs to do is
> put samurai's in it, and Ninja's are big bonus.
You should check out Akira Kurosawa films then. Classic Japanese cinema, complete with Samuria, and the basis for an awful lot of Hollywood films ever since.
Rashamon spawned The Usual Suspects, The Killing, Reservoir Dogs etc.
Well worth watching, and it doesn't have Tom Cruise/
> I'm going to watch this on Sunday for one basic reason. Samurai's, if
> every a film director want me to see his film all he needs to do is
> put samurai's in it, and Ninja's are big bonus.
You should check out Akira Kurosawa films then. Classic Japanese cinema, complete with Samuria, and the basis for an awful lot of Hollywood films ever since.
Rashamon spawned The Usual Suspects, The Killing, Reservoir Dogs etc.
Well worth watching, and it doesn't have Tom Cruise/
monkey_man wrote:
> When did I ever "rave" about The Darkness?
You said "I love him, I want to hold him in my mouth until the swelling goes down and I like to whack off looking at pictures of him with his tight pants" or something like that.
I'm not sure exactly, I get confused.
Don't let
> Cruise put you off - it's good.
Yeah, but I hate Edward Zwick and Tom Cruise, so that's 2 strikes against it. I'll wait for the DVD methinks
> When did I ever "rave" about The Darkness?
You said "I love him, I want to hold him in my mouth until the swelling goes down and I like to whack off looking at pictures of him with his tight pants" or something like that.
I'm not sure exactly, I get confused.
Don't let
> Cruise put you off - it's good.
Yeah, but I hate Edward Zwick and Tom Cruise, so that's 2 strikes against it. I'll wait for the DVD methinks
I'm going to watch this on Sunday for one basic reason. Samurai's, if every a film director want me to see his film all he needs to do is put samurai's in it, and Ninja's are big bonus. I don't care what the plots about or that it stars Tom Cruise (not my favourite actor) I just want to see Samurai and Ninja's fighting.
Goatboy wrote:
> Yes but you raved over The Darkness, so your opinion of what is
> "cool" is a silly thing.
> And I said I'd pop back in 3 months and remind you that you were
> frothing over grown men in catsuits doing hair-metal.
> And I am doing.
When did I ever "rave" about The Darkness? I'll freely admit that I thought that one song was catchy, but everything else since has been sub-Queen bollax. And I hate them. So nyur. But Ninjas and Sumurai ARE cool. Have you seen this yet? Don't let Cruise put you off - it's good.
> Yes but you raved over The Darkness, so your opinion of what is
> "cool" is a silly thing.
> And I said I'd pop back in 3 months and remind you that you were
> frothing over grown men in catsuits doing hair-metal.
> And I am doing.
When did I ever "rave" about The Darkness? I'll freely admit that I thought that one song was catchy, but everything else since has been sub-Queen bollax. And I hate them. So nyur. But Ninjas and Sumurai ARE cool. Have you seen this yet? Don't let Cruise put you off - it's good.
Yes but you raved over The Darkness, so your opinion of what is "cool" is a silly thing.
And I said I'd pop back in 3 months and remind you that you were frothing over grown men in catsuits doing hair-metal.
And I am doing.
And I said I'd pop back in 3 months and remind you that you were frothing over grown men in catsuits doing hair-metal.
And I am doing.
Tom Cruise < REAL samurai.
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> I didn't read much of it, but the fact that you enjoyed it is good. I
> was going to see it anyway, but now I am looking forward to it even
> more.
That's the strange thing. I wasn't even looking forward to the film. I thought it would be a cheesy Hollywood tale of how America liberated Japan or something like that, with cheesey-poof-meister Cruise at the helm. But it wasn't. Heck, I couldn't even remember the name of the flim when I was buying the tickets, let alone what the plot was!
> I didn't read much of it, but the fact that you enjoyed it is good. I
> was going to see it anyway, but now I am looking forward to it even
> more.
That's the strange thing. I wasn't even looking forward to the film. I thought it would be a cheesy Hollywood tale of how America liberated Japan or something like that, with cheesey-poof-meister Cruise at the helm. But it wasn't. Heck, I couldn't even remember the name of the flim when I was buying the tickets, let alone what the plot was!
I didn't read much of it, but the fact that you enjoyed it is good. I was going to see it anyway, but now I am looking forward to it even more.
So you'd go and see a film with the word "Samurai" in the title for Billy Connolly?
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