Has anyone seen The Last Samurai? I thought it was the best movie ever. It comes out tomorrow, but I saw the premiere last saturday. It was really good. If you don't think it is going to be a good movie or because Tom Cruise is a samurai, see it anyways. He's actually very good for the part. I predict it will get at least 2 oscars.

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Never knows best.

I was actually surprised they stuck with the subtitles throughout for the Japanese speaking part. It's refreshing to know that movies aren't afraid of having foreign dialog in them anymore. Tom Cruise was swinging swords around pretty convincingly too.

I want to see it for the Samurais. I like movies with Sword battles. It did strike me kinda odd that Tom Cruise was a Samurai, but I'm sure there is a good reason for it.

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I saw it a couple of weeks ago, very nicely done. IMHO it's one of the best 3 films of the year, along with RotK and Pirates of the Carribean.

I think more people need to find this place, I don't want to revive topics from the dead . I saw the movie last weekend, and all I have to say is wow. I loved it, was very interesting seeing how samurai act(Or how they made them act atleast). Tom cruise as a samurai doesn't make the movie any less, if anything it makes it better(you would have to see it).

I gotta say, that's practically why i didn't see it. White guy playing asian role? Mmmm, no thanks. But yeah, i probably would have to see it to be wrong. Not worth the $8.50 IMO.

I saw (and enjoyed) this movie in Japan, and was pleasantly surprised that they had English subtitles for the Japanese parts and Japanese subtitles for the English parts. My Japanese probably isn't good enough yet to do without the English subtitles, and it was amusing to read some of the Japanese translations of the English.

I wouldn't call it a "white guy playing an asian role." It's more like "a guy rediscovering himself by seeing through the eyes of a different culture". A lot like Dances With Wolves. That comparison has been made a lot about The Last Samurai.

Well yeah, it's how the general public thinks.

When I first saw the movie trailer, I was skeptical about Tom Cruise playing a Samurai role too, but I was really caught by surprise when I saw it this past Friday. I absolutely loved the characters, the costumes, the story. You really have to watch it. It was worth every single penny, and I'd watch it again.