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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Aug 21, 2020 21:19:18 GMT
Going to watch this. Yes, I will.
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Post by MOK on Aug 22, 2020 1:46:40 GMT
"Japan’s most legendary swordsman defeats hundreds of opponents in a single, 77-minute shot. An almost transcendental marathon of mayhem."
I'll say! And quite an amazing feat of camera work, blocking, physical acting, stunt work and choreography, too, if they're not telling porky pies. That must have been utterly exhausting to film!
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Post by whitefeathers on Aug 25, 2020 1:37:11 GMT
I want to see this too but it doesn't look like its available yet...just this trailer on youtube. It looks like it will be really good.
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Aug 25, 2020 11:49:56 GMT
I want to see this too but it doesn't look like its available yet...just this trailer on youtube. It looks like it will be really good. We paid the 8$ CAN and watched it. Its basically a long running battle, and it gets repetitive after a while, there's only so many ways you can kill people with a sword, and that's no hollywoodian fight choregraphy, strikes are what one would expect from a real samurai fight: Faint, deflect, kill. Rinse and repeat. Hundreds of times.
Its sometimes odd, as some scenes you just see opponents getting in row and taking turn to charge individually to their death. Also there's very few rear attacks or attempts to sneak on protagonist for a surprise blow. You see that many are just waiting their turn, very 'samuraiesque' so to speak.
Also, in the spirit of a single take movie, allowances were made to accommodate the camera, and you do see multiple times people moving themselves out once dead to 'recycle' themselves to get killed again.
I enjoyed it.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Aug 25, 2020 13:08:48 GMT
I'll take the Bride killing the crazy 88's any day
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Post by whitefeathers on Aug 29, 2020 2:21:21 GMT
Thanks for the description. I'll pass on paying for it
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 29, 2020 8:56:47 GMT
If I ever need to watch bullsemprini, I've got Braveheart, and this doesn't have Sophie Marceau.
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Post by Dandelion on Aug 29, 2020 17:38:48 GMT
If I ever need to watch bullsemprini, I've got Braveheart, and this doesn't have Sophie Marceau. By the way, how bullsemprini is "kingdom of heaven" compared to "braveheart" in YHO? Not by means of "true or not true" story, but weapons, equipment, armor, etc. etc. And for zhe guys we have Eva Green... 😎
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 29, 2020 20:11:17 GMT
If I ever need to watch bullsemprini, I've got Braveheart, and this doesn't have Sophie Marceau. By the way, how bullsemprini is "kingdom of heaven" compared to "braveheart" in YHO? Not by means of "true or not true" story, but weapons, equipment, armor, etc. etc. And for zhe guys we have Eva Green... 😎 It works visually, if you can ignore Ridley Scott's using it as a soapbox for lamely pontificating about Mideast politics (yawn). I prefer Alien (which is sui generis among horror films) and Blade Runner (which has thought-provoking substance as a dystopia). I preferred Eva as Artemisia.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 29, 2020 22:53:12 GMT
The director's cut of KoH is much better than the cinema version which I didn't like at first watching. More time for story development. Far less bullsemprini than Braveheart.
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 29, 2020 23:28:55 GMT
The director's cut of KoH is much better than the cinema version which I didn't like at first watching. More time for story development. Far less bullsemprini than Braveheart. I'll have to find a copy of the DC to watch. The bullsemprini density in Braveheart (Kilts and warpaint on 13th. C. Scots?? No bridge at Stirling?? And a dozen other issues I could raise........ Really??), IMHO, is unparalleled among modern historical movies, though admittedly not by much alongside stuff like Gladiator, etc.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 29, 2020 23:40:11 GMT
Great idea: The "BSD" / "bullsemprini density" of a movie. Meaureded in "bph" / "buttocks per hour". Braveheart: 100 bph Gladiator: 99 bph KoH DC: 50 bph Eva: - 25 bph Sophie: - 30 bph
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Post by MOK on Aug 31, 2020 14:38:42 GMT
The director's cut of KoH is much better than the cinema version which I didn't like at first watching. More time for story development. Far less bullsemprini than Braveheart. I'll have to find a copy of the DC to watch. The bullsemprini density in Braveheart (Kilts and warpaint on 13th. C. Scots?? No bridge at Stirling?? And a dozen other issues I could raise........ Really??), IMHO, is unparalleled among modern historical movies, though admittedly not by much alongside stuff like Gladiator, etc. IMO Patriot, AKA Murican Braveheart, gives it a run for its money...
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 31, 2020 17:32:51 GMT
Great idea: The "BSD" / "bullsemprini density" of a movie. Meaureded in "bph" / "buttocks per hour". Braveheart: 100 bph Gladiator: 99 bph KoH DC: 50 bph Eva: - 25 bph Sophie: - 30 bph With regard to the last two entries in your table, are you using the colloquial verb form of "buttock"?
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 31, 2020 18:09:02 GMT
I'll have to find a copy of the DC to watch. The bullsemprini density in Braveheart (Kilts and warpaint on 13th. C. Scots?? No bridge at Stirling?? And a dozen other issues I could raise........ Really??), IMHO, is unparalleled among modern historical movies, though admittedly not by much alongside stuff like Gladiator, etc. IMO Patriot, AKA Murican Braveheart, gives it a run for its money... The Patriot has serious difficulties with historical accuracy, very similar to those that have caused scathing criticism of Braveheart. While it may sidestep some of the controversies by being more obviously fictional than Braveheart, through the use of fictional locales and composite main characters, I found the "church burning" incident (anachronistically based on several well-documented Nazi atrocities) to be inexcusably irresponsible self-indulgence on the part of the screenwriter and the producers. I'll also note that Mel Gibson seems to have a singular genius for finding distorted trash like this to brilliantly perform in.
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