ghrogels
01-08-2004, 02:22 PM
The Last Samurai
I saw it last Saturday, so it's not all clear in my head, but here is what i thought
In the beginning you meet Nathan Algren (tom cruise) who is a old civil war hero now making it as a sales men for a gun manufacturing company. Nathan Algren happens to be an alcoholic, but tom cruise looks nothing of the part. When I saw Tom Cruise sitting on a stool with a glass of beer, I kept imagining a fat man with his shirt off, drinking and singing beer songs. It didn't quite fit at all.
Later, when he arrives in Japan, all i could think is how awful the movie set looked. i didn't feel like i was in Japan, it felt like a low Budget movie lot, taking away from the atmosphere of the film, and this persisted through the first half of the film. Also some relationships between the characters make no sence, and arise out of the blue. But at the same time, they do a decent job of developing the main, and main-supporting characters.
It didn't turn around until tom cruises' character got the crap beat out of him while in the samurai village, that the story and cinimitography/screen play, turned the movie (and the crappiness) around, into a very respectable tear-jerking movie that I would probably see again.
Why? Go see it yourself. 8 out of 12 stars
I saw it last Saturday, so it's not all clear in my head, but here is what i thought
In the beginning you meet Nathan Algren (tom cruise) who is a old civil war hero now making it as a sales men for a gun manufacturing company. Nathan Algren happens to be an alcoholic, but tom cruise looks nothing of the part. When I saw Tom Cruise sitting on a stool with a glass of beer, I kept imagining a fat man with his shirt off, drinking and singing beer songs. It didn't quite fit at all.
Later, when he arrives in Japan, all i could think is how awful the movie set looked. i didn't feel like i was in Japan, it felt like a low Budget movie lot, taking away from the atmosphere of the film, and this persisted through the first half of the film. Also some relationships between the characters make no sence, and arise out of the blue. But at the same time, they do a decent job of developing the main, and main-supporting characters.
It didn't turn around until tom cruises' character got the crap beat out of him while in the samurai village, that the story and cinimitography/screen play, turned the movie (and the crappiness) around, into a very respectable tear-jerking movie that I would probably see again.
Why? Go see it yourself. 8 out of 12 stars