I like Paul Mooney's take on that movie.
You'll have to look it up yourselves though. My complexion prohibits me from accurately quoting almost everything that Paul Mooney has ever said.
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I found this comment while looking for the quote.
The words samurai is considered the plural form. The movie is about Lord Katsumoto and his clan of samurai during the period in the transformation of Japan from a feudal society into a modern industrial power. Not exclusively about Tom Cruise’s character. Katsumoto felt that Japan was changing too rapidly and it’s losing its cultural values and traditions in the rush to become regional power.
Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie, but it's an interesting insight that goes past the normal knee jerk reaction.
The words samurai is considered the plural form
That's... not how Japanese works
English (like any other language) likes to take loan words and apply its conventions to them, regardless of what the original language does. "Samurai" is singular and plural in English.
"The Last Samurai" is vague in who it's referring to.
I said Japanese though, not English. "samurai" is both singular and plural in both languages
What are you arguing about? The statement I quoted said that "samurai" is plural. Nothing that you said has contradicted that. In fact, you're only agreeing with it with this last statement. Doesn't matter that it didn't mention if it can be used as singular as it's not relevant.
Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie
Cool dude alert
What has two thumbs and doesn't like Tom Cruise?
Hate the guy, love the actor. He just makes mostly great movies.
He's a weird dude, but a decent actor. Credit where credit is due.
He is part of a cult that kills people. Its fine not to support him based on that
I'm not suggesting anyone should "support" him, I'm just saying he's a decent actor. That's it.
Isn't The First Weeaboo a movie about a white American who is traumatized by and hates American culture coming to Japan and finding friendship, community, peace, love and happiness in traditional Japanese culture, with a couple of kinda cool action scenes?
Yeah, can't figure out why the Japanese like this movie.
and finding friendship, community, peace, love and happiness
Good luck trying to get 4channers to understand what any of those words mean, especially after the spirit of NTR has been invoked.
Good luck trying to get 4channers to understand what any of those words mean
And that can be said for so many topics.