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Post by JenGe on Dec 6, 2003 10:28:17 GMT -5
The following were originally posted in the Movie/Trailer Journal thread but seeing that the film may generate enough discussion to warrent its own thread I have moved them here...In my opinion by far the best film this year & the only since EQ that has achieved personal addiction status (surprising seeing as I'm not a Cruise fan). The action junkie in me is more then satisfied and I'll be visiting the theater frequently to get my fix. If you enjoyed Gladiator & Last of the Mohicans this film is most likely for you. I'll definitely watch that movie. I'm a huge Tom Cruise fan too. I can't wait to see it. I saw it today and I enjoyed...it was better than I expected...great performances, Tom Cruise is good but Ken Watanabe is just perfect as a Samurai....really amazing...I loved the action scenes specially the ninjas against the Samurais...no impossible moves there...just the real thing the way it should be.This is the kind of movie everybody is going to enjoy...not a masterpiece but still a great movie.I thought It was going to be "too american" for me but thank God I was wrong. I hope that The Last Samurai will be nominated and sweep Oscars next year. [/size]
Note - all further comments posted there will be moved here...
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Post by JenGe on Dec 6, 2003 10:36:10 GMT -5
I hope that The Last Samurai will be nominated and sweep Oscars next year. I think seeing it nominated is more then likely but it'll run into some stiff competition to win. Mainly Master & Commander, Return of the King, & Mystic River. IMHO, any of these would be deserving of a win and would have on less stelar years.
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Post by JenGe on Dec 6, 2003 10:40:26 GMT -5
Ok for those who have seen the film...
- - - - - - - - - Did anyone else get a Preston/EQ vibe during that nighttime street fight?? I mean it was swift & to the point. (of course then they had to go back over it again in slo-mo...interesting way of actually getting away with both types of presentation styles.)
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Post by FabioQelDroma on Dec 6, 2003 12:04:43 GMT -5
I think it will be nominated,however it will be very hard to win for best picture. That fight Jenge talked about really resembles EQ,I didnt think about that at the time but now I see that Kurt Wimmer wasn't kidding in one of his interviews when he said the clerics are much like the samurais.
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Post by Sathanai Kiyohira on Dec 6, 2003 14:31:32 GMT -5
I have to wait until january to see it. *kicks the UK*
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Dec 7, 2003 8:50:50 GMT -5
I envy you, guys. You've already seen the film. Maybe that movie will be shown here by January or February.
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Post by ClericRyan on Dec 8, 2003 9:40:49 GMT -5
I have to wait until january to see it. *kicks the UK* LONG LIVE KAIN!
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Post by Alex on Dec 11, 2003 6:04:26 GMT -5
Do you like Last Samurai? I saw it too! ;D When I heard that Tom make Samurai film, I thought "Gosh, there comes another samurai-mania! You make another <Geisha, Fujiyama, Harakiri> again?! It's enough to enough!(-_-; " Since there are some films including some samurai or Japanese cultures, but all of them are AWFUL!! I didn't want to see any those dumb-ass films as a Japanese. However, fotunately, the Last Samurai is better than others. Still, it's an American film, but I felt Tom and other staffs may have real respect for Samurai, and our culture. I think it's difficult to understand Busidou from the film, but do you get it? Could you understand waht it is? I'm a Japanese, so of course I know it( I can't explain it in English though), me and other my friends said that getting real meanings about Busidou or Samurai from the film was hard for people in oversea. Their(our) sense of virtue is not same as especially the West's. I felt that EQ really had something Japanese elements at the first time I saw EQ. Cleric is very stoic, Preston hard to express his feeling, neither Librians(though Librians are under Prozium) I am very happy. Finally, Hollywood could make better films, especially about Japanese culture.
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Post by Witcher Wolf on Dec 11, 2003 6:09:15 GMT -5
To me one of the greatest Samurai movies is: The Seven Samurai. But I am going to have to check this film out when I get the chance
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Dec 11, 2003 8:01:32 GMT -5
Oh, I heard that this movie is number one at the box- office. I hope it sustains it box- office status until its 3rd or 4th week. And I just hope it will be shown here earlier in January(1st or 2nd week perhaps).I'm really so excited to watch this film.
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Post by ClericArucard on Dec 11, 2003 11:30:26 GMT -5
i got the chance to view it and i'm this far impressed the movie is very down to the notch with the history very well done. the fight scenes are very entertaining and very well made. Cruise is very very good in this film, even with the extra twenty pounds of muscle he had to put on due to the fact that when he signed on for the film he couldn't move at all in the Samurai armor lol. but this film is worth the watching in the theaters. now only one left Return Of The King even though i'm sad they cut out entirely 2 hours of the movie to fit. But hey thats what Extended Editions are for
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Jan 21, 2004 10:34:54 GMT -5
I've finally watched my most awaited film, The Last Samurai. It was an AWESOME experience to watch this quality movie. I just hope it gets an Oscar nomination and eventually Oscar itself. This will be a classic movie and definitely lands in my all- time favorite movie list.
The movie displayed great martial-arts and sword- fighting skills. And Tom Cruise did a great job here in this movie- his best performance so far.
The fight scenes are well-executed. Greatly done!!
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Post by Cleric Enemies on Jan 21, 2004 15:44:33 GMT -5
awesome movie
my 2 cents
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Post by BlackDragon on Jan 21, 2004 16:25:51 GMT -5
I saw the movie a few weeks ago... great movie, great performances, great battle sequences and beautiful sabre fights! I would like to learn bushido... it's so cool! Actually I love everything about swords and sabres and I really like to improve my knowledge on this kind of martial arts.
hugs
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Post by Witcher Wolf on Jan 22, 2004 9:27:36 GMT -5
sabres?
*blinks*
You mean Katana fights right?
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Post by MisterAnderson on Jan 22, 2004 17:48:22 GMT -5
sabres? *blinks* You mean Katana fights right? Tom did fight with his Cavalry Sabre there at one stage don't forget. I saw this last week & really enjoyed it. A tad predictable & perhaps a little cliched at the end but a great film. As we were walking out of the film I couldn't help but laugh at a conversation that was happening between a couple walking in front of us: "Yep, if theres one thing you can be sure of.... there will only be cockroaches & Tom Cruise left at the end."
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Post by BlackDragon on Jan 22, 2004 19:57:27 GMT -5
sabres? *blinks* You mean Katana fights right? yeah.... well for me isn't the same!! For me Sabres are the Samurai's Swords, those use in Kendo! Katanas are a type of Swords origin from Africa, mostly used to grub up the woods. I know that U relate the word katana to the kind of swords used in martial arts like kendo or kundo but here we just call them sabres! hugs
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Post by TheKaiser on Jan 22, 2004 22:16:17 GMT -5
Little tid bit: Takeshi Kitano, acclaimed Japanese director, had this to say about The Las Samurai:
"... The Last Samurai is a joke, terrible, but it's doing well commercialy in Japan - precisely because it's so ridiculous..."
This is the director behind Zatochi, considered one of the greatest Samurai films of recent years. I've yet to see Last Samurai though so I can't comment personally. My brother saw it and claimed it to be better then expected, but remarked that Tom Cruise was playing Tom Cruise and Hollywood was directing the story, if you know what he means.
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Post by Silencer on Jan 23, 2004 1:10:12 GMT -5
Personally, I found it to be a great deal like Dances with Wolves... I enjoyed watching it, but I don't think I'd ever see it again.
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