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[bryant]

I saw The Last Samurai on Tuesday — the new one, not the 1990 one, although I gotta say that one looks interesting. John Saxon and Lance Henriksen together again! But I digress

Not particularly to my shame, I am a Tom Cruise fan about fifty percent of the time. I think he can be a superb actor; I also think that he spends at least half his movies chewing scenery. You just never know. This time around, he bothers to act rather than over-emoting, and that means that a fairly typical movie about Americans encountering a different culture gets to be better than it should be. That, plus Ken Watanabe, who makes a huge difference as a credible intelligent rebel lord.

Now, the end of the movie sucks big fat rocks. Seriously, do yourself a favor and walk out after the clear emotional climax. You’ll be happier that way. But up till then it’s a really solid understated movie that I liked a whole lot.

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[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

This has been on my list. I just can't find the time. I also still need to see RotK, Big Fish, Kill Bill I, The Cooler, Lost in Translation, and Modern Times. And I REALLY want to see Master and Commander in the theatre again before it leaves.

Yeah, I'm screwed.

The way you talk about the ending reminds me how I felt about AI. I should've walked out when he's at the bottom of the ocean praying to the Blue Fairy Godmother statue...