Anyone going to see it? It looks fairly interesting. Then again that's mostly because I like katanas, samurais, and ninjas.

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I'll probably go see it over break. It looks pretty good from what I've seen, but there's no way to know for sure.

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I think it looks spiffy, Im thinking about seeing it

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Well, I want to see it... but then again, I wanted to see Pirates of the Carrabean, Masters and Commanders, Alien in theaters... and probably some more I forgot. And I never saw them..

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Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise are so dreamy.... :-o

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I liked it more before I saw the newer trailer which gave away 2/3rds of the plot...

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My girlfriends friend and her boyfriend saw it last weekend, and they both loved it. They said it was serious oscar material, and the fact that Cruise was in it didnt hold it back at all.

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I'm not putting down the movie until I have seen it, but having the whitest guy in the world in a chinese samari movie seems kind of odd to me.

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Why? Anime people are always pale white

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Tom Cruise seems to be inserting him into Historical films... only completely stupidly. LOOK! I'M CHINESE! LOOK! I'M AN AMERICAN PILOT THAT WON THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN!

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...OK...

the word is 'samurai', it's a japanese word, the movie takes place in Japan, Tom Cruise plays an American...

He's a civil war vet who goes over there.



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what other historical films has Cruise been in, BV??

yeah, it looks interesting... the newer trailer gives away far too much plot, though =/
well, we shall see if it's any good when it's released, i guess (=

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Why do people confuse actors with story writers and directors? Really, it's not like he thought up the idea.

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He was in Minority Report.

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What? It could be historical.. one day. Maybe.

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My girlfriend wants to see it because it's Tom Cruise, I want to see it because it's Samurai. And Ninjas. There are Ninjas in it. They are totally cool, and are mammals.

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I saw a sneak preview just the other day, and let me tell you, it is an absolutely terrific movie. I really can't find any flaws with it.

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Far and Away... Interview With the Vampire? Heh.

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From the trailer it looks like it could be outstanding. Got brought up in my his111 course actually.

*points to Interview with a Vampire and Minority Report as examples of movies that were still outstanding despite having Tom Cruise in a lead role*

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The best Tom Cruise movie is Top Gun...

and he is pale. The pool scene in Minority Report... MY EYES!!!!#

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First, he's not trying to be Chinese at all, or Japanese for that matter. As was said before, he plays an American Civil War verteran who is hired to train Japanese soldiers to fight opposing samurai.

Second, there were actually some American pilots that went to England and flew with the British prior to the US gettng into the European theater of WWII.

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The one cruise is supposedly playing got shot down without ever getting one confirmed killed....I bet in the movie he somehow single handily wins the battle of Britain for us....just like in U-571 when the American’s won the battle of the Atlantic by "single handily" capturing the enigma device thus helping the allies intercept communications between the axis ships....funny that the only record the allies have of the Americans ever getting hold of an enigma device is after it had already been decoded....funny how hollywood likes to ignore this fact....and the bit in the cedits saying how this film is totally fictional is pointless because by the time it came up 95% of the audience would have left....ggrrr

back to the last samurai, gonna see it basically because of the theme, haven't got any problems with cruise in the lead role, should be a good movie as long as they don't "over-do" his role.

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Don't forget about the BS in pearl harbor!

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I totally agree with you, Mr. Bond

Cruise did a great job in Minorty Report, so I'm not too woried about this one

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You know Tom Cruise actually isn't all that tall, I think he's only 5'8'' or 5'9''. Hmm most of you are actually not scathing the movie. Even if the plot fails, the katana actions look good.

I plan on seeing it with a group of friends this weekend, it looks good.

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The Last Samurai = Legend of the Five Rings the Movie

BV wasn't implying that he thought up the ideas. He was just saying that Tom Cruise is accepting more historical type films (accurate or otherwise).

Though, to be fair, the same might could be said of Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, ect.

Though, I'm not sure if it's the "Historical" aspect that draws them to the role as much as it is the "Drama" aspect.

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Of course they captured it after decoding. Or more realistically, captured one /obviously/ after having gotten ahold of one quite some time earlier. But of course they're not going to publicise the fact that they can decode enigma right away at least because then the germans would just change the code and thye'd be back at square-one. I'm sure there was massive counter-intelligence operating to quota and protect how they used the information they decoded so as not to tip off the Germans by being too obvious or accurate all the time.

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Calm down, peoples. Do you know why U-571 had the americans capture the enigma? Becuase it's AN AMERICAN MOVIE. Stress on both AMERICAN and also MOVIE. Americans find it easier to watch americans do stuff, and it's a MOVIE. And nowhere did it even imply that they did anything singlehandedly.

I liek historical accuracy more than most people, but some people need to calm down and just enjoy the stuff. Seriously.

Uh... I'm American, and I don't find it "easier" to watch Americans "do stuff". James Bond, for example, (the character, not the Massassian) would lose all of his appeal if he were American.

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Is The Last Samurai is based on Clavell's Shogun? That is of course kinda based (and I mean only a little..a real little) on William Adams.

[ I also mean slightly based being that they are set in different times and are about different things. Just seems to me they got a lot in common, a whole lot.]

Also, if this has been said sorry, but isn't the event in the movie based on Saigo Takamori? The last Samurai that lead a group of warriors against the Japanese government in 1877?

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I forgot his name, but I do remember watching a behind the scenes preview that did say something along the lines of that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/

Except Saigo Takamori does not appear in the credits as a Samurai in the movie, which kind of sucks.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471089702/qid=1070596433//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/102-1587193-7879365?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

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I'm American, too, and I also don't necessarily find it easier to watch Americans do stuff, but then again, we aren't a majority. Sorry, but it's true.

I agree. In many American martial arts movies, I notice that the fighting is never that fast compare to a real hong kong produced martial arts movie.

Americans are for Street Fighting.

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