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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Last Samurai (2003) in Movies

Feb 12, 2018  
The Last Samurai (2003)
The Last Samurai (2003)
2003 | Action, Drama, War
6
7.2 (33 Ratings)
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Troubled Civil War veteran Tom Cruise goes off to Japan to train their new modern-style army just after the Meiji restoration; winds up being allowed to become a samurai despite not quite meeting the minimum height requirement.

Clearly wants to be a lavish Dances With Wolves-style epic drama; works well enough as a historical adventure with some well-staged action sequences, but not quite as moving or powerful as it would really like. Every Japanese person I know who's seen this movie seems to think it's supposed to be a hilarious deadpan comedy. Someone should tell Cruise it's bad manners to organise a kamikaze charge and not die alongside everyone else.
  
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Monte Hellman recommended Children of Paradise (1945) in Movies (curated)

 
Children of Paradise (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
1945 |
(0 Ratings)
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"It seems I’ve been watching Children of Paradise all my life. I remember taking my son to see it when he was seven. When I was trying to convince Brando to play Garrett in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, he told me that, along with the master swordsman in Seven Samurai, the thief in Children of Paradise was the greatest performance on film. I came to Port of Shadows much later in my life, and the Criterion transfer really enhanced its beauty. Jean Gabin became a prototype for me of a kind of actor difficult to find today. And the dialogue inspired me to attempt to re-create its poetic realism."

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Monte Hellman recommended Port of Shadows (1938) in Movies (curated)

 
Port of Shadows (1938)
Port of Shadows (1938)
1938 | Crime, Drama, Romance
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"It seems I’ve been watching Children of Paradise all my life. I remember taking my son to see it when he was seven. When I was trying to convince Brando to play Garrett in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, he told me that, along with the master swordsman in Seven Samurai, the thief in Children of Paradise was the greatest performance on film. I came to Port of Shadows much later in my life, and the Criterion transfer really enhanced its beauty. Jean Gabin became a prototype for me of a kind of actor difficult to find today. And the dialogue inspired me to attempt to re-create its poetic realism."

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David McK (3600 KP) rated Killer of killers (2025) in Movies

Aug 10, 2025 (Updated Aug 10, 2025)  
Killer of killers (2025)
Killer of killers (2025)
2025 |
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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Animated anthology-in-all-but name, set in the Predator universe, clearly delineated into 4 segments as follows:

1) A Viking Warrior
2) A Japanese Samurai
3) A WW2 American pilot

All have one thing in common: they all have faced down, and defeated, a member of the Predator species.

And all, in the 4th 'chapter' of the film, are brought to fight each other in an arena on the Predator homeland.

I found this to be an OK watch: it never really caught my attention all that much, which might be why I watched it over roughly the course of a month, 1 roughlt 25 minute or so, 'chapter' per week.
  
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    BlockQuest is an old school RPG game, which is a combination of puzzle and action, which...