Poll: The Last Samurai

[gametest16]

I have seen some good movies in the last three years but when the knight in shining armor stabed in the back with a katana came into my life my perspective on movies changed. So the movie starts out with a middle aged man who came back from war who was sent to japan to train the men in long rang combat after a men had been trained they go of to a battle with a ancient army called the Samurai.After a five minute battle the middle aged man was spared his life because he had no fear of dieing.He eventually was a accepted man in there society. he went to train in the way of the samurai and after all was done he got to honorably wear the suit of a samurai from a man he had killed in battle.I might be giving out to much information about this movie but after seeing so many ninja movies i was flying in the are with fart boosters when i saw there were ninjas it was something i wasn't expecting to see in a movie with samurais freaken ninjas. NINJAS! After watching this movie words can no explane how i felt.I almost left the best part out the music.Who else can make such epic music than Hans Zimmer best musician of the year in my book. The end of the movie is way to hard to explane so im going to let you watch it your self but although it's the best movie i have seen in my life.

 

[New Troll]

Where's the review? Glad you liked the movie though. I personally found it very blah. Acting wasn't bad though. Just a very slow story with too many "who cares?" moments tying everything together.

Edit: curious, when you say Harry Potter trilogy, which three movies are you referring to? The first three years?

 

[Radeonx]

If you want to be serious about your reviews, I'd do a few things:

-Spruce up your grammar. Grammar goes a long way in keeping things organized and making reading easier, so having nice grammar is beneficial. Yours, is, well, terrible.

-Expand your points. You don't really explain what makes the movie good. You give a plot summary and say that "This part is awesome!", which really doesn't give any insight into why it is a good movie.

-Use paragraphs. This goes along with the grammar point; use paragraphs. Use them to spread out your points and give the reader an easier time reading it. I'd also recommend (Once you expand your points and have more content than this) placing in a few pictures to spruce up your review and spread things out even more.

Hope that my loose opinion on how reviews should be written can help you out.

 

[Saelune]

Why would a Samurai movie make Ninjas be weird? Samurai and Ninja kinda go hand in hand. The time of the samurai was the time of the ninja. Many feudal lords, along with armies of samurai, used ninja too.

Anyways...I loved The Last Samurai. More so than I thought I would. I admit, I am biased, as I just love Japanese culture, so much, particularly feudal Japan, but still. It was very respectful to Japan's history and Samurai culture, which I appreciated.

 

[Paksenarrion]

I hope you review The ring next I think youll like it because you have good reactions to movies and speaking of ninjas the original ringu was made in japan but I dont think there are any ninjas in the movie.I dont want to spoil it though because i know youll like it even if it has no ninjas.I guess you could say that the girl from the movie is a ninjas but that is one SCARY NINJA.I dont want to spoil it though so enough about the movie.Are you going to watch the Ring or ringu because the first one was ringu and then the us version came out after.Are you going to watch both of them and if you do are you will review them.That would be cool.

 

[gametest16]

i didn't say a movie with samurais in it made ninjas look weird they just came in a the most boring part of the movie and was awesome and thanks

 

[NeutralDrow]

The review was...a tad lackluster. It doesn't say enough about the movie, what is said isn't given context, and it's difficult to read in a giant block like that. Even though I agree it was a good movie, the review still could be better.

Also, there's seven Harry Potter movies by now.

Anyways...I loved The Last Samurai. More so than I thought I would. I admit, I am biased, as I just love Japanese culture, so much, particularly feudal Japan, but still. It was very respectful to Japan's history and Samurai culture, which I appreciated.

Same here, and I'm honestly surprised a lot of people see it as the exact opposite. One or two weird plot holes aside (one of which, Tom Cruise beating four guys in a swordfight, actually has a plausible explanation), I thought it was particularly well-done.

Of course, those are all the same people who claim to be upset over Tom Cruise being "the last samurai." He's not. Ken Watanabe is, or possibly his entire village since "samurai" can be plural.

 

[funguy2121]

I have seen some good movies in the last tree years but when the knight in shining armor stabed in the back with a katana came into my life my perspective on movies changed. So the movie starts out with a middle aged man who came back from war who was sent to japan to train the men in long rang combat after a men had been trained they go of to a battle with a ancient army called the Samurai.After a five minute battle the middle aged man was spared his life because he had no fear of dieing.He eventually was a accepted man in there society. he went to train in the way of the samurai and after all was done he got to honorably wear the suit of a samurai from a man he had killed in battle.I might be giving out to much information about this movie but after seeing so many ninja movies i was flying in the are with fart boosters when i saw there were ninjas it was something i wasn't expecting to see in a movie with samurais freaken ninjas. NINJAS! After watching this movie words can no explane how i felt.I almost left the best part out the music.Who else can make such epic music than Hans Zimmer best musician of the year in my book. The end of the movie is way to hard to explane so im going to let you watch it your self but although it's the best movie i have seen in my life.

I

just

I just can't.

Can't do it.

Come on, willpower!

Dammit! How to explane. So, who was this knight in shining armor who had the severe misfortune of being stabed in the back with a katana? And how did witnessing your new love interest being assaulted with a deadly weapon inform your view of movies? That may make for an interesting review, whenever you decide to write one.

You may want to focus a little more on details. For instance, when the middle aged man who came back from war who was sent to japan to train the men, how did he actually TEACH them long rang combat? It's great that they spared the middle aged man's life because he did not fear dieing.

Also, most people don't read movie reviews expecting to hear about the critic flying in the are with fart blasters. Journalistic veneer, you know. Incidentally, I can tell you who else can make such epic music than Hans Zimmer best musician of the year in my book: John Williams, James Horner, Michael Kamen Danny Elfman and Michael Giacchino. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

And, since you didn't leave an "other" option in the poll, I'll write this candidate in.

Your next review should be of the magnum opus Big Wet Asses 13, featuring the breakout performance of Sunny Lane.

Edit: when did the kid from Jerry MacGuire get on The Escapist?



^ See that? That means I'm being nice!