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Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-09-28 09:31pm

Dalton wrote:
Durandal wrote:
Dalton wrote:He dares violate the sanctity of Willy Wonka?! Destroy the infidel!
That movie was awful anyway; I highly doubt that Burton could do any worse. He can shoot for "just as bad," but I don't think he has a prayer for making it worse than that.
I am so going to beat the unholy fuck out of you.

Once your done, we can toss him into my Tube of Cutity Death!(on of those glass tube with a fan on the bottom, usually filled with money, supplied with a fair ammount of double sided razor blades.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-09-28 09:49pm

HemlockGrey wrote:I'm looking forward to Matrix, RotK, KB, and Last Samurai. I might go see The Rundown, too.

Does the movie actually give a plausible explanation for the whole "Tom Cruise: white guy samurai" angle?

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-09-28 10:00pm

beyond hope wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:I'm looking forward to Matrix, RotK, KB, and Last Samurai. I might go see The Rundown, too.
Does the movie actually give a plausible explanation for the whole "Tom Cruise: white guy samurai" angle?

It could some last noble white guy being a hitman with honor. I dunno, I haven't looked into the movie.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-28 10:22pm

beyond hope wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:I'm looking forward to Matrix, RotK, KB, and Last Samurai. I might go see The Rundown, too.
Does the movie actually give a plausible explanation for the whole "Tom Cruise: white guy samurai" angle?

He isn't a white guy samurai per se. He is hired by the emperor of Japan to teach modern weapons to his military, effectively ending the samurai way of life. In the process he learns more about the honor, nobility, etc. of the samurai, and probably starts to identify with them.

So the title probably refers to the last samurai, as a culture, as in the last of the samurai, and him as the last new samurai because he is able to truly understand that culture.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-09-28 10:23pm

neoolong wrote:
beyond hope wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:I'm looking forward to Matrix, RotK, KB, and Last Samurai. I might go see The Rundown, too.
Does the movie actually give a plausible explanation for the whole "Tom Cruise: white guy samurai" angle?
He isn't a white guy samurai per se. He is hired by the emperor of Japan to teach modern weapons to his military, effectively ending the samurai way of life. In the process he learns more about the honor, nobility, etc. of the samurai, and probably starts to identify with them.

So the title probably refers to the last samurai, as a culture, as in the last of the samurai, and him as the last new samurai because he is able to truly understand that culture.

Isn't it partially based of a real US army officer?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-09-28 10:30pm

neoolong wrote:
He isn't a white guy samurai per se. He is hired by the emperor of Japan to teach modern weapons to his military, effectively ending the samurai way of life. In the process he learns more about the honor, nobility, etc. of the samurai, and probably starts to identify with them.

So the title probably refers to the last samurai, as a culture, as in the last of the samurai, and him as the last new samurai because he is able to truly understand that culture.

I'm just guessing, but I'd bet it's based off 1877 rebellion of the Samurai in the Satsuma province, who attempted to overthrow the westernizing government and new conscript army it had created five years eariler. However they didn't win the widespread support they needed, Japan had had some two million Samurai, and where crushed. The Rebellion of 1877 wasn't the first one, but it was the last and bloodiest by far.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-09-28 10:37pm

Interesting. I might give it a try after all.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-09-28 11:30pm

Hate to break it to you innerbrat, but Ned Kelly was shit.

A complete circle wank by an American director and mainly American actors and crew about a piece of Australian folklore that they didn't really understand that well.

In the end it was just a shitty Rob Roy rip-off set in Australia with everyone wearing stupidly fake beards, having terrible Irish accents and running around shouting words to the effect of: "Australia is for the Irish, fuck the British." But again with terribly forced Irish accents and even more forced pseudo-Victorian english grammar.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-28 11:57pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
neoolong wrote:
He isn't a white guy samurai per se. He is hired by the emperor of Japan to teach modern weapons to his military, effectively ending the samurai way of life. In the process he learns more about the honor, nobility, etc. of the samurai, and probably starts to identify with them.

So the title probably refers to the last samurai, as a culture, as in the last of the samurai, and him as the last new samurai because he is able to truly understand that culture.
I'm just guessing, but I'd bet it's based off 1877 rebellion of the Samurai in the Satsuma province, who attempted to overthrow the westernizing government and new conscript army it had created five years eariler. However they didn't win the widespread support they needed, Japan had had some two million Samurai, and where crushed. The Rebellion of 1877 wasn't the first one, but it was the last and bloodiest by far.

It's probably pulled from multiple rebellions. Though I believe it is set in 1876.

And I don't know whether it was based off of a real person or not.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-09-29 02:55am

I understand that a new "Amityville Horror" is up for a remake.

Which would be great if they follow the book. The movie sucked.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-09-29 04:49pm

I hecka wanna see the texas chainsaw massacre remake

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-09-30 05:11am

weemadando wrote:Hate to break it to you innerbrat, but Ned Kelly was shit.

A complete circle wank by an American director and mainly American actors and crew about a piece of Australian folklore that they didn't really understand that well.

In the end it was just a shitty Rob Roy rip-off set in Australia with everyone wearing stupidly fake beards, having terrible Irish accents and running around shouting words to the effect of: "Australia is for the Irish, fuck the British." But again with terribly forced Irish accents and even more forced pseudo-Victorian english grammar.

Oh well, sounds like A Knight's Tale, but without the Queen songs.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-09-30 06:44am

So yeah, Kill Bill, Cold Mountain, The Last Samurai, Revolutions, RotK...they'll all be awesome...

...but everybody's forgetting about Intolerable Cruelty, coming out on 10 October. This movie's gonna rock, as do all films by Roderick Jaynes -er, I mean the Brothers Coen.