I ended up going to this elderly man’s house which was fairly big and had a nice ocean view because he’s a rich mf. His wife said she was making sushi but she ended up ordering a Benihana alternative which made my gf sad because the only reason we went to their place was because she wanted sushi. Oh well.
I’m still here and the guy just put on Malhação which is some shitty novela from the 90s and my gf looks like she might cry. I think this old man never had any kids so he’s trying to bond with me and throughout the movie he kept looking over for approval at his favorite scenes. He must love this disgusting filth film because he recites the lines really well and it felt like a dual audio situation where Tom cruise and old man were speaking the same lines. I wanted to jump into the ocean and drown.
Such a bad movie I only like Tom cruise in mission impossible 1 and 3 and the rest suck.
Last samurai is about whitey Vietnam vet who tries to train some samurai soldiers how to fight and he ends up dying of disentary at the end of the movie. I think my fate will be the same after eating the Benihana because I don’t feel too good.
We’re still at his house and he want to show me his aged soy sauce collection.
This is one of my friend’s favorite movies. I can’t help liking it even though politically it’s really bad. It’s a white savior movie, pretty similar to Glory, directed by the same guy. at the end when the white guy somehow saves the emperor and the samurai from the emperors’s evil assistant, I can’t help thinking: and then what happened?
This doesn't happen. The Samurai all die, that's the point. Tom Cruise doesn't save anything.
The Emperor's role is that he's a puppet of a pro-western faction, but only after the Samurai and his friend Ken Watanabe are defeated does he decide to change course to protect local culture and tradition.
everyone clapped obviously
It's definitely one of my guilty pleasures. It avoids a lot of common white savior tropes while still managing to fall into a bunch. I think it was helped by having a lot of input from the Japanese cast and crew. A lot of the extras, for example, were people who do medieval reenactments in Japan and showed up in their own armor.