The Last Samurai - MOVIE REACTION!!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2022
- Eric Rick and Aaron react to and discuss The Last Samurai - #thelastsamurai
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'Shogun Assassin.'
Checkout the 49min video ''Benedict Cumberbatch, Channing Tatum & other Actors on THR's Roundtable,'' by The Hollywood Reporter. One of them is Timothy Spall, who played Simon Graham in The Last Samurai. Also features Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton and Ethan Hawke. Spall steals the show with stories from his career.
Blind Wave please watch Rurouni Kenshin Live movie
Have any of you seen Seven Samurai? It would be a great movie to react to and compare and contrast it to this.
Emperor: "Tell me how he died."
Algren: "I will tell you, how he lived."
That line gets me everytime. So powerful.
American sales guy: (return) have you heard of oil? 😉
As far as I'm concerned it's one of the greatest movie lines of all time.
Emperor: "Did I fucking stutter? Fucking gaijin..."
Every line in this movie gets me every fucking time.
The amount of sniffles I heard gets me. Imagine the first English speaking role the west sees of you and its just the most high octane emotional treasure of a performance. What a man and what a legacy Ken Watanabe has
Wait is this his first English speaking role?
He was AMAZING in letters from Iwo Jima
People should check out the Abroad in Japan interview with Ken Watanabe on UA-cam
Ken Watanabe is probably the most beautiful man i've ever seen.
When I first watched it I cry like a girl. Well I am girl, but you get my point.
Bob is the definition of the term
"Beware the Old Man, in a profession where most die young"
Heck yes
Robert Baratheon "The Bob" Baratheon first said that line right? In Game of Thrones.
@@eagleowl3664 it's been a saying off and on for thousands of years, some credit it to the Spartans because they respected anyone "tough enough" to live to become an old man
@@MisterW0lfe Oh. Thanks for the info bud. It's one heck of a badass saying.
You can't say it better!
Aaron's fear that this would be a white savior film is why I believe a lot of people haven't watched it and seen it's greatness.
It’s the opposite of a white savior film. Tom didn’t save the Japanese, their culture saved him.
Only complaint is the love story with the sister, and him going back at the end, it causes confusion and makes it seem like tom cruise is the last samurai and not Ken Watanabe
@@wokecansuknutslol3331 yeah and no
It's still a white savior film
@@BrowneePointz no
Katsumoto's smile after Nathan tells him "Dead to the last man" always gets me. Nathan tells him this story of a tiny group of warriors facing insurmountable odds and when he learns they all died, his instant reaction is "OH FUCK YEAH."
Katsumoto was a real one
I think it was part that, but also Katsumoto knows Nathan fully understands the culture. The Nathan from the start of the movie probably wouldn't have seen that story as uplifting.
@@POZEHTRONIC Katsumoto pulled what we in the west call a Pro Gamer Move.
He got the end he wanted. A warriors death like the 300. He was proud to know he had the same destiny as great warriors in history. He knows his family will know of him and what he stood for that day for generations to come like the story he was told.
It is a very Japanese thing, you see in west the goal in a fight was allways to be alive and your enemy dead or surrendered by the end of fight but in Japan because of the enhanced importance of honour where loosing it was a social type of death as it made you a social pariah and none would consider that as living...sometimes winning may have required dying like for example the tradition of Funshi where if someone higher ranked than you did injustuce to you but you could not touch him cause of rank diference there was also the option to do a very special ritual suicide that included as part of the ritual anouncing the reason you are taking your life being unable to live with the shame of the injustuce you suffered. The thing is that was a very official public ritual. So when people of equal or higher rank of the guy who wronged you learned of it through that announcement, now the one having to deal with shame would be him.
one of Has Zimmer's best scores...and that is saying something considering how good his catalog is.
One of Toms best also overall an epic movie
Mhm
Directors to Hans: you can do either powerful or emotional music.
Hans: yes.
Not to mention Zimmer went to Japan to study their most traditional music to try and not necessarily mimic it but to make it as familiar as can be whilst still capturing every emotion that’s shown in this film.
This movie introduced me to both Watanabe and Sanada and I've loved them in everything since. Can't wait to see Sanada in John Wick 4
Twilight Samurai fucking rules
Sanada as Hanzo in Mortal Kombat is perfect casting, wish we got way more of him
@@Blitznuger exactly had we gotten him as the main character or at least as the one guiding the new character throughout the movie it would’ve been much better
Watanabe plays in Tokyo Vice, a HBO show I recommend
Hes holding the OG Sanada name still high, i love this guy man
As a Japanese, this movie means a lot to me. It's great to see our culture on the big screen. The Samurai culture, the Bushido, Shinto, honor, karma, destiny. Thanks guys for this reaction!
How would you rate the faithfulness of the movie in accordance with what you understand about the late Meiji period in Japan? Did it at least capture the general zeitgeist?
@@walrus2515 Culturally and thematically it's really accurate. It fits really well. The only issue is the story and events are enitrely made it. It's based on the Satsuma Rebellion but it's not it itself.
The idea of Samurai rejecting guns is laughable too, Samurai loved guns and adopted them as soon as they were brought to Japan, their purpose in life was war after all.
Thank you for sharing your comment. I feel many Western cultures could benefit from Eastern approaches to life, especially honor and dedication.
@@walrus2515 Overall, I thought it captured the essence of Japanese culture, especially Bushido. Of course, it had a necessary romanticism in terms of the narrative of a Hollywood film. What I liked most was the way culture was communicated through Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) and the eyes of Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a Westerner getting to know Japanese culture. In that sense, I found it very accurate.
@@Christoff070Maybe you should appreciate over 600,000 American and Canadians died fighting for your Eastern ways of life? What have you done for the west?
Cruise's swordfight training was 5 hours for 1 year and he learned Kendo, apanese martial arts, and all manner of weapons handling and effectively fighting while riding a horse. So much respect for the amount of dedication he puts into his work, really
I don't know why this specific movie made me so emotional, but Katsumoto's death was the first time I would actually say I cried my eyes out during a movie.
It was for me too. I think these early noughties epics like TLS and LotR were the first movies where we've seen some of the best portrayals of old-school competent and sensitive men in cinema. The old values of duty, honor, discipline, his love of art and poetry and putting your life ahead of others. Nobility at its finest despite the flaws.
Samurai have a history of fighting for 800 years. It also won the invasion of the world's strongest Mongol empire. Kamikaze also comes from the samurai spirit.
Divine Wind
54:48 - 55:00 This is the most genuine reaction I've ever heard about this movie. This is Tom Cruise's best performance. How he or Watanabe didn't win an Oscar for it shows the flaws of the system. They are so earnest and give so much to this film that it is a complete shame they weren't awarded for it.
Only reason it really didn’t is Fellowship of the Ring dropped that year and took a majority of them.
At least Watanabe was Nominated but surprised Cruise wasn't.
"Japanese Shire" sounds like the ultimate paradise and retirement plot.
When you think about it those japanese sleeping pods are basically Hobbit holes
Well it was made in New Zealand... sooooo
Filled with japanese hobbits.
I don't know what it is but that Japanese lieutenant's reaction at 53:44 is just so heart wrenching, reduces me to a blubbering mess everytime. Here he is witnessing the complete and needless slaughter of his country's ancient culture before his eyes. So powerful! It just hits you on so many levels. Great reaction guys!
その中尉も
元は侍なのです。
自分達は変わってしまったが
最後まで侍を貫いた
katsmotoに尊崇の念を表したのでしょう。
I saw this in the theater, in Japan, and the whole audience (myself included) were weeping at the finale. Amazing score and beautifully made. Great reaction!
impressive
This movie doesn’t get talked about enough. In my opinion it’s one of the greatest movies ever made. They just don’t make movies like this anymore
Agreed!
They make to much unleeastic movies....
Completely agree! I miss movies without an overload of CGI and with truly meaningful stories
Hans Zimmer used traditional instruments for the soundtrack to give it authenticity. For me this is his most underrated and outright best soundtrack. This film makes me a grown old man cry like a baby every time.
I remember as a kid watching this in theaters balling my eyes out, and feeling ashamed I was crying at a movie (I was like 10) and I look over and my dad is sobbing 😭
History Buffs did a good review of this movie years ago.
The movie is a fictional movie about a very real time in Japan's history.
The real last Samurai didn't give up on guns over some idea of guns "dishonouring them"... they ran out of ammo.
But this movie does (apparently) capture the feeling of Japan's struggles as it made its way into the modern world.
I love this movie.
Love History Buff! Always appreciate his breakdowns of what's accurate and what isn't, his videos are great.
Fun fact: the story is inspired from the real event where a French officer of the Second French Empire was sent as a training instructor to Japan to train the Japanese army.
Just like in the movie he went against order of his hierarchy (both of the emperor of France and Japan) and lived to tell the tale.
Jules Brunet
As much as Eric seems to love the movie, I’m surprised he didn’t bring any of this up. Unless he does bring it up in the 30 minutes I haven’t watched yet.
@@jjc5871 yup, unless I missed it they didn’t talk about it. Which is a shame :/
Eh, I still can't get past how ridiculously historically inaccurate this film is in spite of being based on real events. Like, *comedically* inaccurate. It's like if Robert E. Lee (the general of the confederate army during the American Civil War) made friends with a black man and rode into battle against the northerners alongside him as an equal while donning renaissance-era plate armor and using a jousting lance. That level of absurdity.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 You know it’s not a documentary right??
@@jjc5871 that's a lazy excuse.
Yeah that ending always hits hard 😭🙌🏾
Gets me everytime 😭
29:30 When Algren & Katsumoto are fighting the Ninja, Tom Cruise almost got his head cut off during a specific move: When Katsumoto switches targets in a wide swing, Algren duck underneath his swing. Happening so fast during choreography and not watching, it really was a no-mind and trust moment. Turned out awesome on screen!
pft, its called a prop weapon.
@@shmoga yes of course. But it's what Tom said the risk "felt" like. Maybe I should've wrote that instead.
I love seeing so much love now for Hiroyuki Sanada. I fell in love with that man in this movie and went and watched all his filmography I could. So glad this movie opened so many doors for him.
29:20 just the fact that two people, once enemies, now fight side by side to protect one another. Gives me chills every time
Usually only see Eric get that emotional tear drop or two with some scenes in shows or movies but this time it was all three of them QQ
The scene where the kid didn't want Algren to go into battle broke me. I remember holding in my tears and pain in my throat hurt until eventually I gave way.
My favorite movie of all time. I saw this while I was in the Navy and stationed in Japan, so the emotional impact hit me twice as hard lol. I cry every damn time I watch this movie I love it!! Great reaction guys! My favorite line...
Katsumoto: You believe a man can change his destiny?
Algren: I believe a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.
When Eric said that the village looked like a Japanese shire it reminded me that this movie was actually shot in New Zealand.
The lack of Calvin in this Tom Cruise reaction is a damn shame
He probably be there if not Tom Cruise
It’s such an emotional story, I still cry every time. Beautiful score & incredible acting from literally everyone involved. Great reaction guys.
Timothy spall a world class actor appears on screen: “isn’t he that rat” absolutely cracked me up 😆
Spall in Secrets and Lies was brilliant. His character and narration in LS was also superb.
Brilliant in Secrets and Lies
I really like that Eric easily gets emotional when watching such dramtic scenes 🤍
This movie was actually about Kasumoto’s life through Nathan’s eyes. Best movie I’ve ever seen.
I like how, in the scene where Algren is tells the young soldier to fire at him, General Hasegawa's face says that he knows EXATLY what's Ulgrin is doing despite the language barrier, and agrees with his methods of getting his point across
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. So many people dismiss this and Dances with Wolves as “White Savior” movies but they’re actually the opposite. They save Nathan by giving him a life of peace, serenity and purpose. He helps by telling them the enemy strategies but that’s about it. Ken Watanabe should’ve gotten an Oscar for this movie, I cry every time I hear him say “They are all perfect”.😭😭 Not to mention Hans Zimmer gives us one of the most beautiful and underrated scores in film history, I listen to the track “A Way Od Life” during meditations.
Also the scene in which he ends the duel with Ujio with a draw by completely clearing out his mind is a real life technique. It’s called Mushin or No Mind, the best way to describe it is that it’s exactly like Ultra Instinct from Dragonball Super. I felt it myself when I was training in Kenpo Karate as a teenager, my sensei and his other instructors swore by The Last Samurai and told me to pay attention to that scene specifically.
What a lot of people miss is that the Last Samurai isn't referring to Tom Cruise's character, he's really an observer to it.
Yep. Not just the movie made get emotional, but just listening to the score gets me teary.
Also, I don't call this a movie. It's a film!
@@daemonredfield3211 EXACTLY! Then again I blame the marketing department for that. Ken Watanabe should’ve been on the posters with Tom.
This has nothing to do with the “white savior” bullshit anyway. This movie is inspired by true events. Algren is based on Jules Brunet, a French soldier sent to train Japanese in modern firearms. The movie combines years of events into one, and is fictionalized for entertainment purposes (the samurai rebels actually used firearms and artillery), but it’s not just something that someone created out of nowhere.
@@jjc5871 oh I know. And sadly many of the samurai clans didn’t rebel out of trying to keep the honorable old ways alive, but really to keep their status of power.
This movie is a gem! I was in school when I first saw it and it remains one of my all time favourite flicks. It has some of the most beautiful and inspiring lines ever written!
“- Katsumoto: You believe a man can change his destiny?
- Nathan Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed.”
After all these years and uncountable times I've watched it, the death scene of Katsumoto and everyone paying respect still brings tears to my eyes.
The Emperor in this film was called Meiji, (1852-1912), Meiji came to full power in 1867 after the then ruling Shōgun, (Military general) had resigned. In fact despite a turbulent start to his reign partly due to his young age and the massive social, political and militarily changes happening in Japan, Meiji's overall personality and character was pretty strong and authoritarian. This enabled Meiji to keep the military and political establishment more or less in check unlike his successors his son Taishō, (mental health issues) and his grandson Hirohito, (weak personality disorder) that enabled the military to gain influence and control over the government eventually.
The subtleties in Ken Watanabe's face as he was being stabbed. He showed pain, bravery, beautiful and acceptance. As if, in his final moments he's saw something more than a war but peace itself.
Such an important film for me growing up. Also one of the two films I ALWAYS blubber cry at the end (the other being Gladiator). 10/10
This and Gladiator used to be my favorite movies. Looking back they still are very high up, I love movies that deal in warrior cultures and honor.
I am so glad alot of people are reacting to this hidden gem. A lot of people have never seen this or even heard of it.
Eric at 38:00 not being able to watch Nobutada get shot. I feel you there. The last 30 min of this film is full of those moments. So good and yet hard to watch.
The (training) swordfight in the rain is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. I appreciate so much that you didn't cut away from ... hardly any of it, even in the abridged reaction.
i will tell you how he lived.. man i shed tears with you guys.. awesome reaction as always.. rewatching the last samurai is such a treat.. 😊
Thank you for plugging Rurouni Kenshin, Rick 😄 I live in hope that one day I'll be able to watch all of you react to it
Yes! I think the fighting is even more impressive in the 2 prequels that came out last. It's a pity that not many reactors watch the live action series! In my books, Rurouni Kenishin movies definitely have the best sword fighting scenes on film to date.
@@flora6784 I actually still need to finish the latest two prequel films so I'm glad you said that! I started the first and then life got in the way, but now I'm really looking forward to catching up again 😁
@@Jasmedra24 Enjoy! Well worth the wait!
I love those live action movies. I love the behind the scene training even more. Takeru really does move as quickly as you see, from his sword work to his running.
@@MeztliZen I've watched one behind the scenes video of him training for the first film (which was amazing), but there must be more I haven't seen so I'll definitely go looking! Thanks! 😁
If you don’t cry at the end of this film are you even human? I ugly cried the first time I saw it and it still gets me!
This is unashamedly one of my favorite movies. I don't know if it's "fair", but I put it in the same realm as "The Last of the Mohicans".
I'd rate "The Last of the Mohicans" as my #1 favorite movie. It's so perfectly good.
@@jRoy7 one of my longtime friends and I decided the moral of the movie is: "Don't piss off the old warrior."
Stellar movie. Every single thing about this movie was so good. Hiroyuki Sanada, ken watanabe, Adam Baldwin, Tom Cruise, Tim Spall, the choreography, Kenneth Brannagh, Billy Connelly, Hanz Zimmers score, the cinematography etc. The Gatling gun scene gets me still after 20 years. It’s heartbreaking but so well done that you get to just see this entire way of life die to modernism in a hail of automatic gunfire.
Neither Adam Baldwin nor Kenneth Brannagh are in this film
The last stand of the samurai happened on September 24 1877. 30,000 soldiers against 500 samurai.
Ip Man is a must react!!! Hoping it gets at least considered
Me too the first one is one of my all time favourite movies of all time
Amazing movie!
49:50... "Our men are running from the battlefield. A SHAMEFUL DISPLAY." - Shogun 2... Iykyk.
One of my favourite movies of all time!!! The way the samurai all die is just heart wrenching! 😢
When the imperial army lieutenant starts to break down when they're firing the repeater at the last samurais gets me all the time. The level of compassion and admiration just translates so well.
man what an incredible reaction to this movie. and what makes it even better is the great conversation afterwards.
that's what sets this channel above others.
A beautiful story with a great heros journey. Tom Cruise, samurais and Hans Zimmer. Just perfection!
Even tho the Last Samurai tends to diverge a ton from how the historical events of the last samurais conflicts occured (individuals, both groups historically armed with guns, and more) and the transition from late feodality to modern Japan, I found that movie to be really good. It was in my opinion beautifully shot, directed and produced, with great actors. A nice romanced a written narrative on an important Japanese time event, showing powerfull values of honor, duty and memory, past and present, and a nice touch of feels to the end. Really enjoyed it, I rewatch it from times to times.
Haha, "diverge a ton" is a even a nice way to put it. There are so many historical inaccuracies in this, because of Hollywood's habit of romanticizing the samurai.
It's a great movie but it takes so many liberties that it feels weird to say it's based on any true events.
@@ImAlsoMerobiba I've been told many Japanese people praise it as a great "samurai film" but it's ultimately no more real than most Kurosawa films
It also avoids the white savior trope because Algrens role in the story was just to learn and observe these events with us. He has his personal arc but he doesnt turn the tide with his awesomness or anything like that.
@@ImAlsoMerobiba The fixation in the film with firearms being 'dishonorable' particularly cracks me up. Firearms have been in use in Japan since the mid 16th century (260+ years before this film's setting), there were even martial arts dedicated to loading an arquebus quickly and efficiently. While it was generally employed en masse by foot troops, a samurai sharpshooter was highly valued and worthy of praise. During the Edo period that preceded the film's era daimyo (basically barons, for anyone unfamiliar) were expected to maintain an arsenal of firearms as well as to have samurai who knew how to use them. The romanticization of samurai culture is one of my pet peeves in western media. I miss being able to enjoy this film, because it's one of the reasons I got into Japanese history in the first place. But it's so ridiculous it distracts me.
Man, Ujio's face when Nobutada gets shot... The only time he shows any emotion that isn't unbridled rage and it's this look of absolute heartbreak.
Refreshing to see grown men tear up. This is easily in my top 10 of all time. I've seen it close to 10x and I still tear up. This and The Patriot always turn me into a softie, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Right there with ya. People prop up 300 but for me those hit way more hard
I wish I could put into numbers how many times I’ve seen this just for the emotional connection it brings.
If there was any movie I was hoping you guys would react to one day, it was this one. It's one of the most emotionally-charged movie in the history of cinema. I've seen it as much as Eric and it never fails to make me tear up at the end.
Sadly, a lot of people missed on this film because of their preconceptions. A samurai movie starring Tom Cruise? Hello, white savior and cultural appropriation! The truth is that this movie is about a broken man who finds peace and meaning in a culture different from his own. He learns to respect something that isn't his, to a point where he is ready to defend it. The film has an extremely powerful message.
The samurai in the movie are obviously romanticised, and a lot is historically inaccurate. However, I believe the film's main purpose was not to retell perfectly factual history, it was to depict how two men with different cultures can learn to love and respect each other.
Again, thank you Eric, Rick, Aaron. I always enjoy your emotional honesty. That is why I always come back to watch. Peace!
The 1870's saw the demise of three warrior cultures The Samurai Japan , Zulu South Africa and the Plains Indians in North America.....
Changes in weaponry gave colonial armies even bigger advantages but the warriors still had notable victories in the Sudan against
anglo Egyptian forces in the 1880's and Ethiopian tribal forces defeated the Italians at Adwa 1896
The scene where Ujio beat Nathan until he subjected to defeat is one I think is a little overlooked. First, I think it's known that Nathan wanted that beating because he felt he deserved it, but what I noticed is that Taka probably thought so too. This, to her, was a small revenge for her husband because she had a bitterness she wasn't able to act on. Once the beating was done, though, and seeing how pitiful he looked, she almost looked to feel regret for having those feelings.
Exactly. It was almost cathartic for the village and those that were most affected by Nathan's killing of Taka's husband. It almost demonstrated more things, such as Nathan's perseverance and willingness to never surrender, qualities of a real samurai
Great reaction! I can count on one hand scenes that make me cry. This scene when all the soldiers bow to the samurai is right up there with "My friends, you bow to no one " from Return of the King. Gets me every time.
So great a movie, one of my absolute favorites. Remember: “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
This was also the film where I was introduced to Sanada and he's been a favorite of mine ever since. He just has this commanding presence anytime he's on screen. Another reason why I love this movie, is what Aaron pointed out. It isn't just some cliche American movie where the white man shows up in another land and becomes the hero. Instead, Tom Cruises character is more of a witness to the events of the land changing. And is saved by the Samurai before they pass on.
i saw this movie for the first time recently and absolutely fell in love. it was a lot of fun seeing your reactions and listening to your thoughtful and nuanced conversation after.
however, i would say that we essentially did have the same thing happen here, as alluded to in the film. it’s just that the US govt did SUCH a good job in wiping out the native cultures and languages and histories and belief systems, that only a small population of the country are left to say ‘it happened to us.’ indigenous peoples were removed from their lands, separated from their families, banned from feeding themselves with the traditional foods and methods they needed to survive, children were sent to abusive institutions to be told everything they were raised with and knew was wrong in order to eliminate their way of life and indoctrinate them into something else..
that was the only thing that stuck out to me. great reaction - keep up the good work!
Regardless of what you think, Watanabe deserved the Oscar nomination for this movie. He steals the scene everytime he's on camera. Still til this day my favorite movie with Tom in it.
"When I took these......you were......my enemy"
Koyuki Kato who plays Taka here is absolutely gorgeous, honestly one of the most beautiful actresses I've seen
If Aaron want to know more about this story and its characters, he can read about the french samurai who inspire this film and read the jornalist books. He was att least based on a real dude who went to japan and was responsible for some of the first japonese/english translations there are. I believe he married an japonese woman, had japonese kids and was very respected among japonese people. And wrote a bunch of books about japonese culture and all. I also believe that line about Japan been a very spiritual place where people devote themselfs to perfection is his.
yes it's "inspired" by the story of French Captain Jules Brunet .
Eric is me. Crying while watching it for like the 50th time 😭
"For free!" 🤣🤣🤣
It is always great to see Erick's happy/sad puppy faces, lol. He is an awesome reactor.
The Mission Impossible series may remind me why I love the theater experience every now and then, but The Last Samurai is definitely my favorite Tom Cruise movie.
While I do enjoy this film, as a history major, I must be the guy to remind everyone that this is a very romanticized telling of the Meiji Restoration and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. The Samurai who rebelled were not fighting to preserve the cultural traditions of Japan in the face of Westernization; they were fighting to preserve the privileges and relevance of their class as Japan modernized and began to conscript non-Samurai into the new Imperial Army, which did have battlefield experience from the Boshin War from 1868-1869 and the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1874. And the Samurai who rebelled did use firearms, as the Japanese had used firearms since the Portuguese introduced them in the 1600s. When the Samurai ran out of ammunition, that it when they turned to traditional and conventional weapons. They did not reject all guns in a sense of tradition and honor. Also, the last samurai and a man who is still a national hero of Japan is not an American (the Japanese consulted with the French to modernize their army), but a samurai named Saigo Takamori, one of the Three Great Nobles who were the drivers of the Meiji Restoration.
The traumatizing event in the Indian Wars is meant to be the Battle of Washita River in 1868, in which General Custer attacked the winter encampment of Chief Black Kettle and his band of Southern Cheyenne. It is estimated that over 150 Cheyenne were killed, including Black Kettle himself.
Hell fucking yeah, I love learning history.
I also do like how they managed capture losses. Some sources say that the samurai killed 5 imperials, or at most 50. But others saying it was a 1 for 1, a couple hundred, couple thousand. Movie managed to show that they probably killed a good 150+ before being wiped out.
Many people knew Tom Cruise from mission impossible but this was my first introduction to Tom cruise. I loved everything about this movie one of the highlights of my childhood.
This is in my top 10 movies of all time, I most of all loved the dynamic between two cultures. I am now in love with the show "shogun" that is fast becoming my favorite TV show. Just something about the samurai Japanese culture clashing with the western culture. Great reaction by the way, I watched a master swordsman from Japan explain how good Tom cruise is with a sword, he mentioned it was all accurate and could see tom cruise must have trained hard.
one of my favourite movies and somehow underrated... it's a brilliant movie
i have watched this movie 5 times last month and it doesn't get boring, it's amazing that it's THAT rewatchable.
also as much as i love MI movies and Tom doing crazy stunts, i kinda want this Tom to come back. the guy can act, give him something juicy and i think he'll deliver
A very good movie, I absolutely love it.
That being said, the representation of the Samurai is very clean. Historically people like Omura would have been abused by the Samurai since the merchant class was considered the lowest class in Japanese society, particularly those that traded with the "Gaijin", that being said this isn't insular to Japanese culture, in Europe traders were considered weak and dishonourable as compared to the warrior Knights. As warfare began to industrialize, skill and ability falls by the wayside compared to machinery and technology.
I remember this being announced 20 years ago after Minority Report and Cruise going into major training for this.
I was impressed with it's material.
Using the history of the Satsuma Rebellion and the Westernization of Japan by foreign powers in 1877.
Stories of Jules Brunet (the French Imperial Guard) who teamed with Enomoto Takeaki in the Boshin (1868-69, Japanese Civil war).
Exploring these classic archetypes of myth and legend.
Veteran warriors who feel like their time has passed on.
But somehow find a new place or path of meaning to become whole again.
At the end, it's about hope becoming strength.
Such a good film.
What I like is that in the flashback Alrgrim disagrees with the attack on the native camp yet still goes through with it, killing many. And it's the fact he disagreed but still went with it is what haunts him. He's not a stereotypical good guy. He has done bad and he believes only death will redeem him.
33:46 This scene always hits me hard. As they cut off his top knot, he’s crying out, almost like he’s begging the gods' forgiveness for allowing himself to be dishonoured like this. 💔
"Don't let reality get in the way of a good story" is the best take for the current era's movie environment.
This movie is a genuine masterpiece, possibly the best variation of the "Dances with Wolves" story and never fails to make me cry. Thank you for watching it.
This and "Master and Commander" are amongst my all time fav movies. SUCH easy movies to rewatch and enjoy. Love 'em.
This movie is GOATED AF, I remember watching this as a kid and being so engulfed in the world of the story and the score of the music. One of Tom Cruise's best work!
この戦いに善と悪はない。それぞれが時代をかけて戦った。そこに憎しみはない。刀を持った侍も、銃を持った兵士も。
だからこそ、お互いの命をかけて戦い、勝敗が決したとき、最大限の敬意を払う。結果が逆であっても同じことをする。これが日本人の心。戦いに憎しみはなく、ただ、己の信じた道のために命と誇りをかけるのみ。
This is my absolute favorite movie of all time and absolutely my go-to if I know I need to experience some raw emotion if I've been having a tough time. Absolutely incredible film and it will always live in my memory.
What made it so sad was this was the end of an entire era, almost 700 years of history of the samurai. A beautiful, incredible era of history and not replaced by something better, but something worse.
My fiancé is not really big on anything Samurai related, but she absolutely loves this movie. Hell, she even cried at the end of this movie
This was Shane's favorite movie right? I wonder how he's doing.
That's what I was thinking
He passed away unfortunately. He got covid and was bedridden for months. He died alone.
@@chriscorvin5077 Funny that, the ghost of Shane posted a She-Hulk reaction video yesterday.
He’s got his own reaction channel now. I watch all of his Bojack reactions
I thought the same thing.
日本の侍に興味を持ってくださいりありがとうございます。 他の国の方が日本に興味を持ってくださり感激を受けてます。 有難う御座います。
I forgot how much I loved this movie!!! I haven`t seen this since I was 7. Still as great as I remember! One of the only two movies that will make me cry no matter how many times I watch it.
What’s the other movie?
@@dqixsoss7436 the green mile!
I love this movie.. it's visually stunning from beginning to end.
I would've liked to see Shane's full reaction to this because of the clip he uploaded of the end of the movie along time ago 🥺
One of Tom Cruise' best performances.
Director Ed Zwick, man... between this and his other film Glory, I'm amazed I have any tears left in my body.
I have watched this movie many time. I've cried every time. I remember watching this in the theater and balling like a baby to the point I sat there well after the lights came back on. Tears falling, nose running.
You are one of the only reaction channels where I actually like the commentary at the end, because you are passionate whether you love or hate something, and it feels authentic.
Me and my 3 brothers watched this movie to death over the summers 0f 03 to 06. Will always be a classic in my eyes and one of my favorite films.
And that is why this is by FAR my favorite reaction channel and crew. You guys are awesome!