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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 1257594" data-attributes="member: 2804">I enjoyed it for the fights, the cinematography, and their attempt (poor and utterly incaccurate though it was) to show a poignant clash of a traditional culture and modernization.What I did not enjoy was the revisionist anti-American PC history. Talk about raping a culture's history (both Japan and the U.S.) so that Edward Zwick could spoon feed everyone his social opinions.I lived in Japan for two years and speak Japanese. I think many Japanese people will like this movie because its a celebration of their own traditional culture, they like Tom Cruise, and they love it when Hollywood makes cool movies about Japan. My wife, who is Japanese, loved it for all those reasons.But the historical inaccuracies, plot holes you could drive a truck through, and the modern day PC BS just made me cringe. The movie would have been so much better without that last scene with the emperor: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."Gag me... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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