I personally was thinking it was going to blow more than Sean's mother in a wind tunnel, mostly because of Cruise.

But now I'm much more interested. Anyone planning to see this movie?

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The Color of Money, Cocktails, Days of Thunder, Top Gun, A Few Good Men and Interview with a Vampire were all so long ago.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM IN THE LAST TEN YEARS!?

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The movie looks as good as they say if not better. The few scenes they have shown look good and Cruises acting seems to be very solid.

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Everyone wondered WTF when Snoota wrote:
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM IN THE LAST TEN YEARS!?

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Apart from Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible 2, Minority Report, Jerry Maguire and The Firm, you mean?

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Sean wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Apart from Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible 2, Minority Report, Jerry Maguire and The Firm, you mean?

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All but Jerry Maguire, the Firm, and the first Mission Impossible were subpar at best. The number of less than great movies has greatly risen over the last ten years in relation to the number of great movies.

Ahh...the Joys of Working at a movie theatre ^_^

Of course, they could just be making up shit for the sake of making up shit, but we shall see.

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Suddar got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Vanilla Sky.

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Yes.

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Lashanna stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Yes.

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Holy shit, somebody that agrees with me. Besides Vorbis.

I've been hawking that movie for about a year with nothing but the cold touch of ill reception. ;P

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Black had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
A lot of people are saying it's a great movie. Epic. As good as or better than Braveheart.

I personally was thinking it was going to blow more than Sean's mother in a wind tunnel, mostly because of Cruise.

But now I'm much more interested. Anyone planning to see this movie?

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Are YOU going to see it?

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Suddar had this to say about Robocop:
Holy shit, somebody that agrees with me. Besides Vorbis.

I've been hawking that movie for about a year with nothing but the cold touch of ill reception. ;P

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The end makes me sob every time, for some reason, even if it is sorta happy.

And not sob in the "I'm so glad everything is good now" triumphant-sort sob.

I loved it a lot. I thought it was a clever film

And yeah I'm looking forward to seeing Last Samurai. It looks promising.

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Zaza's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
MI2 was one of the most horrible movies ever made. Where the fuck did they get all those masks from?

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Where do they ever?

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Karnaj thought about the meaning of life:
Of course, they could just be making up shit for the sake of making up shit, but we shall see.

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I'm pretty sure they are...being as us white folk probably weren't terribly loved after we forced them to open against their will. I could be wrong though...

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Karnaj thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:

Of course, they could just be making up shit for the sake of making up shit, but we shall see.

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Would it matter? They are not marketing the movie as a true story.

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Elvish Crack Piper had this to say about Duck Tales:
So is it like Shogun?

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Werd.

My first thought on seeing the promo was "Isn't he covering pretty much the same ground Richard Chamberlain did in 'Shogun'? And Chamberlain probably covered it better too.

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Zaza enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
MI2 was one of the most horrible movies ever made. Where the fuck did they get all those masks from?

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Have you ever seen darkman? Same thing.

They stole a gimic out of a b-movie. For a "summer blockbuster".

wtf yo.

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Blindy Claus stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Have you ever seen darkman? Same thing.

They stole a gimic out of a b-movie. For a "summer blockbuster".

wtf yo.

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Actually they 'stole' those masks from the old 60's Mission Impossible series.

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Actually they 'stole' those masks from the old 60's Mission Impossible series.

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I was speaking of the gimick where Ethan knocks a guy out then layers a bunch of masks on them to trick his friend into shooting him.

That is identical to what happens in darkman, right down to the duct tape.

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Callalron screamed this from the crapper:
Werd.

My first thought on seeing the promo was "Isn't he covering pretty much the same ground Richard Chamberlain did in 'Shogun'? And Chamberlain probably covered it better too.

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Not necessarily. There was a time after the collapse of the bakufu in 1868 when the Meiji government had to deal with a former samurai revolt in the outer prefecture of Satsuma. The problem was they abolished the class system and all the benefits thereof. So you have 2 million samurai across the country who lose their priveledges. Some of them are bound to be pissed off.

Also, Japan was, during this Satsuma revolt of 1877, actively trying to re-shape itself in the West's image. They thought if they made themselves into a modern nation-state to rival any of the western imperial powers, they could abbrogate the unequal treaties imposed on them back in the 1850's. They sent missions abroad to learn about the west, but I don't recall if they ever brought westerners over to help them set up their infrastructure.

Now unless the movie's producers/writers were way off the mark, what I've just described above seems to be the most likely historical backdrop for this movie. But, it could just as easily be set in the civil war period of 1863-68, which I surmise is when Shogun was set, yes?

All of this has basis in fact. There was indeed a historical counterpart to Blackthorn in the service of the Tokugowa, but he and Shogun were exaggerated for story purposes.

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Karnaj thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Stuff

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Tom Cruise is supposed to be an Civil War hero figure. So it'll probably a number of years after the end of the war, when his commission has ended and he's sunk into a pit of self-loathing and drinking.

I take it your thoughts mean I should finally open and watch it?

Of course, we also talked alot about other stuff, i was tired and just said fuck and shit alot. so hey.

So, if MY knowledge of Japanese history is correct, they're just making fun shit up.

My sister could look it up in her Japanese Schoolbook (From when she was an exchange student) on their history.