“In The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise stars as an American officer recruited by the Emperor of Japan to modernize his country’s warfare techniques.
Cruise’s character ends up becoming quite taken by the samurais and their art form.”
lmao
that sounds like a c.rappy movie 
dawood
Saw the preview for this movie at MATRIX 2…
EVERYONE in the thearter howled at sight of Tom Cruise playing mr Bas@ss Samurai…
The tragic thing is that with TC involved it’s gonna have excellent production. Costumes, sets, etc… will surely be top notch… It’s just a question of weither I could tolerate TOM getting in the way of the scenery…
> that sounds like a c.rappy movie
The words “Tom Cruise” are pretty much a guarantee of that.
You guys are weird.
I’m definately waiting for this one.
Nah I rather have the Mejican (Mexican) Aztec warrior acting as a samurai than the top gun white boy! lol. We already know that the American will mess up the traditional portryal of Japanese culture, hehe, he lacks Bushido. The Montezuma will have revenge on you! (I hope they put some Aikido moves in the movie).
Wait…could a white dude do that back then?
:eek:
Just become a samurai back in the good ole Meiji Reconstruction Era?
I posted a thread on this movie several months ago, when I first heard about it. you may see more replies there
could a white dude do that back then?
Well, Richard Chamberlin did it in SHOGON… and that was WAYYYYYYYYY back in the early 80’s…
O yea that was cool
They should have a native american guy play the part in that movie, because according to the movie Windtalkers: native american people look almost exactly like Japanese people.
And then the movie could have comic relief when he yells out in Japanese, “Im Indian You Stupid Fools!”, and then gets chased around by samurais.
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I finally saw it. I don’t want to give anything away. I’ll give it two grades.
Hollywood movie: B
Historical correctness: C-
It is a good movie and worth seeing at the theater. However, some of the events in the movie would not happen. I know it was LOOSELY about Saigo Takamori’s last stand, but some of the things that people did would not be done. I am sorry, but I got my degree in Japanese studies focusing on this time period and it kind of bothered me.
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I was surprised this movie was great. i won’t tell you what its about so go see it.
its entertainment aka fiction. its not supposed to be correct. if it was a documentary then yes it would. its liek in fast and furious people were like “oph got the tecxh is wrong” its entertainment, stop bashing they’re not always right. plus its hollywood they believe they can rewrite stuff.
oh i saw it too. very good movie.
Or seeing him with a drop-dead gorgeous, 6 foot tall redhead named Nicole Kidman as his wife? (Well, ex-wife now).
i always thought i had an ugly nose. until people started to point out that it looks exactly like tom cruise’s. now i’m not suire either way.
What were the major inaccuracies that you saw? Could you be more specific (for those of us who did not get our degrees in Japanese studies)? I’m actually curious.
I thought the movie was very spirited and entertaining, and the battle scenes were spectacular. But it could have been a much more provocative and intelligent film had it addressed the actual politics behind the conflict in greater detail. The movie really glorified the mythological image of the samurai warrior without really explaining the samurai’s place in Japanese society and why they were so disenchanted with the new Imperial government…
but then again, if the movie had explained that the samurai were a useless class of land owning aristocrats in an obsolete and backward feudal system who had not fought a real war in a couple centuries, then the movie would not have been so inspiring:D
I don’t know much about Japanese, but in China, if you kill someone’s husband, don’t expect the widow and her kid would be nice to you or forgive you.
wm