It's one of the least forgettable films of all-time.
Literally none of those evoke any sort of memory response from me.
The more I learned about the Gauls, the more boring they sounded.
That's cause he's the myth based individual that founded Athens. When you have maniac war mongering Sparta for myths it's hard to get riled up about a guy that founded a bunch of debaters and the inventor of the most annoying (albeit best though) teaching method known to mankind.
Yeah, but it's not a history lesson. I mean, Jack Sparrow wears too much eye shadow and has a terrible English accent, but that movie was a great watch (the first one was, anyway). And who wants to see a movie about a guy who was already awesome at swords go rediscover his honor in a strange land where he gets just a little better at swords? The point is he refused to quit and he learned about real honor in the process. What makes or breaks a premise like that, imho, is the delivery. Cruise was great, one of his best performances. The main samurai actor is awesome in everthing, and the story was engaging from start to finish.
I'm a pretty simple guy too. The most complicated shit I've watched recently for enjoyment has been The Wire... for the 5th fucking time.
This tickled me.
It was a far more badass line than this one:I loved 13 Assassins. I knew I was in for an awesome movie when the main character said something to the effect of "my hands are shaking because I never thought I'd have the opportunity to die in battle"
That is to me an attribute of the ideal man; capable of extreme violence at the drop of a hat but only willing to wield it in the service of a just cause and willing to patiently wait for one knowing full well it may never come.
I know we're all here because we're fans of a combat sport but JFC.
I think it's something you see a lot more in the guys that are in the military. They don't say it the same way anymore but like Marines yelling "get some" as they ramped up to invade Iraq is a lot of that "now I finally get to do what I've been trained to do instead of sitting on a base being yelled at by MPs all day long"
To be clear I don't like how some fetishize violence either. We see that a lot in America with the gun culture we have. There's a whole bubble of people who fetishize the crap out of home defense despite the fact that only like 13% of home invasions in America occur when the house is occupied and despite the fact that most of the people who can afford to shell out thousands of dollars for guns and their accessories probably live in relatively secure neighborhoods anyway.
I prefer the old ideal of the militia. Military service was, in colonial America, seen in a bad light and as a job fit for ruffians and thugs. The militia was the last resort made up of reluctant farmers and apprentices who were fighting because they had to, not because they wanted to. But, in theory at least, they were still supposed to be ready to serve at a moment's notice.
I wanted a scene in a movie where a guy is starting to date a second-generation girl with a crazy eastern European father. He starts the conversation with:
It's because of where I live (and going to Black Rifle Coffee to get, well, coffee stuff here) I've ran into a ton of like infantry guys and shit, went shooting with Evan Hafer and a bunch of his employees (who were all like Rangers and shit) and most of your modern military guys... their outlook can be summed up as:
