Well that was surprisingly tremendous fun. Somehow I’d missed the memo on how ridiculous this movie was. This is not the somber, reflective, Kitano that brought you Hana-Bi or Kikujiro, this is Beat Takeshi subverting the samurai movie and a whole bunch of legendary names of Japanese history into a delightfully gory, and very gay, comedy.
When I started learning Japanese one of the early phrases that I came across that made me feel it was a really delightful language…
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The Gorge 2025
Felt a bit like a waste of good chemistry between the leads when it became a silly CGI fest. And I assume at this point people say ‘wouldn’t it be cool to have Ripely in our movie’ and Sigourney Weaver just sighs and tells her agent to ask for a stupid amount of money, because I can’t remember the last time I saw her in a substantive role or in a not silly movie.
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