Anyone seen Top Shogun yet? (Or going to see it this weekend?)

[MaxDepth]

Otherwise known as "The Last Samurai"

I wonder if it will beany good. I see praise from the established critics, but i can't help feeling that I've seen most, if not all, the movie from the long trailer. Speaking of trailers, I want to be enticed into seeing the flick, not coming from it feeling that I've seen the highlights or the best parts of the movie. The Lord of the Rings trailor has a series of rapid cuts from the movie that make me want to see it even more.

By the way, anyone catch the ABC Primetime show about it last night (LOTR)?

 

[tnitsuj]

I have seen that movie back when it was called Dances with Wolves.

 

[PanzerIV]

I might take my son to see it tonight. I was discussing that with a coworker only a shortwhile ago before I saw this post.

 

[Maverick]

Is it based on Shogun? I thought so, but wasn't sure. That was a reallly good book.

 

[shiner]

Might go see it....though I'm sure I will be disappointed in it after having studied the true stories about this in my Japanese history class in college.

For a similar story and an excellent read try this

 

[blackdogdeek]

lol "top shogun"

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Roger Ebert seems to have liked it (3.5/4).

Edward Zwick's "The Last Samurai" is about two warriors whose cultures make them aliens, but whose values make them comrades. The battle scenes are stirring and elegantly mounted, but they are less about who wins than about what can be proven by dying. Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic. Its power is compromised only by an ending that sheepishly backs away from what the film is really about.