Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Retrospectively speaking,
Barts app, check
Colch app, check
council tax, check
sleep.
oh yeah, I knew there was something that I forgot to do.
*******
Big baby
Okay, so I watched the Last Samurai on the plane, and yknow what, I think it sucked.
Sure there was a lot of effort put into costumes, and swordplay which were great. But the whole, draggy two hours of it is just a Tom Cruise fantasy of White Man meets Orient and Wins Their Respect with his Honour thingie. And he gets to shake a big sword around a bit too.
Sure, it's nice and moving, hordes of samurai being mowed down by a chaingun (That's a good death?!?) with Tom Cruise, of course, receiving superficial flesh wounds. Oh yeah, and of course the pretty Japanese wife of the man he killed has to kiss the alluring white man at some point. And of course, Tom Cruise has to get beat up a lot by the samurai whose respect he finally wins.
It's just so much macho bullshit wrapped poetically, over and over again. It left me feeling slightly nauseas.
Think about it. Hundreds of samurai dead for no real reason, and sure they killed a lot of soldiers armed with rifles. Net result at the end of the day, thousands of dead Japanese people, dying in the name of... their country?
And nobody stopped to think, there has to be a better way, huh. Honour before brains.
Yes, quite.
*******
re-minisce has discovered evanescence
Barts app, check
Colch app, check
council tax, check
sleep.
oh yeah, I knew there was something that I forgot to do.
*******
Big baby
Okay, so I watched the Last Samurai on the plane, and yknow what, I think it sucked.
Sure there was a lot of effort put into costumes, and swordplay which were great. But the whole, draggy two hours of it is just a Tom Cruise fantasy of White Man meets Orient and Wins Their Respect with his Honour thingie. And he gets to shake a big sword around a bit too.
Sure, it's nice and moving, hordes of samurai being mowed down by a chaingun (That's a good death?!?) with Tom Cruise, of course, receiving superficial flesh wounds. Oh yeah, and of course the pretty Japanese wife of the man he killed has to kiss the alluring white man at some point. And of course, Tom Cruise has to get beat up a lot by the samurai whose respect he finally wins.
It's just so much macho bullshit wrapped poetically, over and over again. It left me feeling slightly nauseas.
Think about it. Hundreds of samurai dead for no real reason, and sure they killed a lot of soldiers armed with rifles. Net result at the end of the day, thousands of dead Japanese people, dying in the name of... their country?
And nobody stopped to think, there has to be a better way, huh. Honour before brains.
Yes, quite.
*******
re-minisce has discovered evanescence
