Re: "Re: The Last Samurai
Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message news:<bph7c902pip@drn.newsguy.com>...
> On 19 Nov 2003 05:56:15 -0800, wasabi ...
> >
> >In article <baano7$qea85$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>,
> > "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Rodney Webster wrote:
> >> > This looks like it is going to be a great movie, with Tom Cruise
> >> > flipping out, cutting heads off, and popping massive boners to pork
> >> > geisha babes:
> >> >
> >> > http://lastsamurai.warnerbros.com/home.php
> >
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >>Have you seen the trailer for Taratino's "Kill Bill"? That looks
> like
> >>it is going to be very cheesy - in a deliberate and entertaining way.
> >>How can you go wrong with a film featuring Uma Thurman, David
> Carradine,
> >>ninja, and even a "Sukeban keiji"-lookalike?
>
> Have it directed by Tarantino.
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> >"Kill Bill" was 'SUGEE!!' Not cheesy at all.
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> I couldn't handle another Taratino movie yet. I'm laughing at Pulp Fiction, love
> the bit where the black guy get anally raped, nothing funnier than buggery
> especially if the guy is black; and the dialogue so witty "Would you let me give
> you a foot massage", still cracks me up.
I guess "I didn't get" Pulp Fiction. The only part I remember is
Bruce Willis and John Travolta in a close up scene together. That was
Charisma Overload--Tarantino likes to take it over the top and he
doesn't disappoint in Kill Bill, either.
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> > A little tongue-in-cheek
> >(yakuza wearing Kato masks a la Bruce Lee in the Green Hornet) but
> >still a great homage to chumpara eiga. Classic sword duel in a snowy
> >Japanese garden. Lucy Liu looks good in a kimono and Uma Thurman plays
> >her part magnificently. Can't wait to see Vol. 2.
> >
> >Beat Takeshi's "Zatoichi" was cool. "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" was better.
> >"The Last Samurai" is next. Great year for samurai movies.
>
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> Jap-sploitation movies
>
Eh!? Nanda sore? So you're saying these movies were made to pander
to Japanese audiences!? Chigau yo. The Zatoichi that was made for a
Japanese audience in Japan but the other two were made for American
audiences.
Do you know what you're talking about?
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> "You don't bang it at 11:00pm but on the other hand, you don't play tribal house
> when you're headlining a tech-house party"
>
> DJ Mike McKenna talking shit
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hmmm, this guy could be Gowen in disguise.
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