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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 19 2006, 12:13 PM (128 Views) | |
| firetongue | Oct 19 2006, 12:13 PM Post #1 |
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I LOVE this movie! I personally think it's even better than POTC, but that's just my my opinion. You really have to see it to appreciate the amazing adrenaline rush you get in the main scenes. Here's a short synopsis: Captain Nathan Algren (Cruise) is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now seem distant and futile. Once he risked his life for honor and country, but, in the years since the Civil War, the world has changed. Pragmatism has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is nowhere to be found - especially out West where his role in the Indian Campaigns ended in disillusionment and sorrow. Somewhere on the unforgiving plains near the banks of the Washi-ta River, Algren lost his soul. A universe away, another soldier sees his way of life about to disintegrate. He is Katsumoto (Watanabe), the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, the venerated Samurai, who dedicated their lives to serving emperor and country. Just as the modern way encroached upon the American West, cornering and condemning the Native American, it also engulfed traditional Japan. The telegraph lines and railroads that brought progress now threaten those values and codes by which the Samurai have lived and died for centuries. But Katsumoto will not go without a fight. The paths of these two warriors converge when the young Emperor of Japan, wooed by American interests who covet the growing Japanese market, hires Algren to train Japan's first modern, conscript army. But as the Emperor's advisers attempt to eradicate the Samurai in preparation for a more Westernized and trade-friendly government, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai. Their powerful convictions remind him of the man he once was. Thrust now into harsh and unfamiliar territory, with his life and perhaps more important, his soul, in the balance, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him. And some scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UefjCb_rJA aaahhh! so good! |
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| Schmitty (Pomfret) | Oct 19 2006, 07:32 PM Post #2 |
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i like this movie to. its pretty entertaining when youre down or bored. Thats just my opinion. |
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| firetongue | Oct 20 2006, 09:07 AM Post #3 |
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Or incredibly tired, like I was at 1am when I watched it :P |
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| Blazing Ice | Oct 22 2006, 04:56 PM Post #4 |
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man...some movies make me crie..and im a boy so that hard to make me do...only like 3 movies and one musical make me crie...rent,the origonal dragonheart,the last samuri and the musical wicked.it is awsome. |
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| Wanderfalke | Oct 24 2006, 11:19 AM Post #5 |
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What??? Are we talking about the same movie???
:huh: Actually, I nearly fell asleep when I watched that movie. And I never felt that "amazing adrenaline rush" you're talking about, it was simply boring! :blink: |
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| Blazing Ice | Oct 24 2006, 02:21 PM Post #6 |
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hey!!! im a setimental man...hey...thats a song. *achem* any way. its a god movie. very abstact...i like the symbalism about it. |
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| firetongue | Oct 24 2006, 02:50 PM Post #7 |
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lol, that happened the first time I saw it. I was bored to tears, then I watched it again about a year later, and it was amazing lol |
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| Wanderfalke | Oct 25 2006, 01:19 PM Post #8 |
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Well, maybe I should watch it again, like you did. I can't be bothered, though... douh!
Sorry, if I hurt anyones feelings! ^_^ I respect your opinion, I don't share it, though.
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| Blazing Ice | Oct 25 2006, 02:30 PM Post #9 |
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thanks dude...you had my crying my eyes out in the boys bathroom for hours
just kidding :lol:
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| Wanderfalke | Oct 25 2006, 03:24 PM Post #10 |
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LOL! I never have been crying because of a movie. Although I'm a girl... is that weird? :unsure: Oh, just remembered, that is not entirely true. The Lionking nearly made me cry. The scene when the father dies is really sad!!! Sorry for being of topic... :MG: |
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