I've seen The Last Samurai

[Olive]

New Zealand? Crap. Was the scene where Alrgen first sees the island of Honshu and Mt. Fuji from the boat real at least?

I doubt it. They filmed it near Mt. Taranaki, largely because it's a fuji-esque vocanic cone.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Algren: "Here are Katsumoto's swords, Emperor. He died fighting for the noble and pastoral way of life of your traditional and beautiful culture."

Emperor: "Oh, thank you for showing me how the evil capitalist American white-man and his guns has corrupted and destroyed our idyllic and utopian existence. I shall now grow a backbone and honor my unique and special culture by rejecting this treaty with the evil industrialist West."

Yeah, I thought the movie was great except for that touchy-feely PC crap scene. The movie would have been better had Algren died on the battlefield.

 

[Tallok]

They screwed up the sword ettiquite too, when Tom gets his sword he compleately draws it in front of the man who gave it to him with the edge faceing him. That wouldn't have been done. He would have turned it so the edge was faceing himself and drawn it halfway.

But he didn't know about that, his character wasn't Japanese. If he was, I would have already complained, but he was completely ignorant of Japanese customs. and yes, how did tom cruise survive being shot in the chest and his horse falling on him? He really should have died

 

[Hand of Evil]

I thought for a movie it was good, 6.5 maybe 7 out of 10. The correctness of the movie did leave me with a foul taste but then that is because like many of the rest of you on this board I know more history than the target demograhic.

I was just glad to see they kept the movie as a conflict between traditional values and industrialization, that it was a buddy movie, as it could have become just a love story.

 

[Tsyr]

When did he get shot in the chest? I recall a shoulder hit and a leg hit in the last battle, but not a chest hit...

 

[Hand of Evil]

When did he get shot in the chest? I recall a shoulder hit and a leg hit in the last battle, but not a chest hit...

During the charge at the end, they clearly show the hit, not a 'magic spot' (upper shoulder), but clear chest. He was in bad shape at the end of the battle.

 

[Henry]

Hi, guys. I'm not trying to crack down, but I just wanted to make a reminder not to go TOO far into the politics zone. Some discussion is understandable as it pertains to the plot, but let's not jump too far afield.

Thanks, all!

 

[Sirius_Black]

how did tom cruise survive being shot in the chest and his horse falling on him? He really should have died

He's Tom Cruise. You cannot kill off your big star. Besides upsetting fans, no sequel.

You could have knocked me over with a halfling when you know who died in Saving Private Ryan.

 

[barsoomcore]

You could have knocked me over with a halfling

Throw a halfling at someone, they'll fall over. Especially if it stabs them in the eye with an icepick.

 

[Dragonblade]

Well, as one of my friends put it (he loved the movie), I am too close to the source material to really enjoy the movie. I guess I agree with him.

And most of the PC stuff was largely ignorable. It just seemed the last 15 minutes of the movie that really put it over the top.

All in all, I did like the movie. Next time I see it, I'll be sure to end the film right at the last battle scene and just imagine that Algren dies there.