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Patrick Martin said:just answer one thing for me,
did he actually have any action before he became the terrifying Napoleon?
silentridge12 said:I split this 207-minute movie into three sessions.
Day 1:
Some weed tea, pizza, pudding, three joints.
Just chilling. That’s how I ended up
falling head over heels for every single frame of this black-and-white Japanese masterpiece.
Like when the samurai tells the young girl
that dreams don't just come true—you just get old, grey, and
life eventually checks out. I couldn't even wipe my eyes thinking about how
beautiful it is to respect our elders, our grandparents, all those people who
swallowed tons of crap and poison just so we could sit here today adjusting the volume on a remote.
I lit another joint to keep following the search
for the samurai and what his plan actually was.
Impressions? Great. Honestly, I wish the movie was at least four and a half hours long instead of just three and a half.
Day 2:
Just two joints and some coffee.
Kept wandering through medieval Japan, watching the most interesting
characters play out their games of temperament, instinct, knowledge, and total bullshit.
It made me grateful for every scrap of food I have. It made me realize
that people are just people. There's no point in hating them; they just do what they know. And nothing matters
if you aren't using your knowledge for good. You don't even need religion to make you feel small;
just fear. There were so many deep philosophical talks—like how a conversation can solve a problem before
anger does. I almost made it to the end, but I had to stop. Consistency, right?
Day 3:
Four joints. Apparently, four is a death number for the Japanese, and turns out that's exactly how many samurai died.
Local sausage, cheese, 200g of chocolate, walnuts, honey.
Die like a man, the samurai way. Pure bliss. A literal orgasm—maybe it was the walnuts and honey, but still.
When the peasants turned out to be invincible, and seeing how the land feeds us and how whoever cares for it wins...
Native Americans are the exception, I guess. But samurai are servants to the people. Everything clicked. After the strategy
and the fighting, I finished feeling satisfied, knowing we are just what we are. What's the point
if we don't know how to be happy?
ruggedbadger2 said:Honestly, one of the best movies from the sixties. 👍
Zachary Nguyen2 said:James Garcia50 is pretty persistent, you have to give him that. 😁
William Hall93 said:I’m making a bit of a generalization here, but most of my friends in their 20s and 30s seem to live exclusively for series, rarely ever touching a movie.
When they actually do sit down for a movie, it’s always some recent blockbuster, strictly in English, a Hollywood production, and it absolutely has to have over 100,000 votes on IMDb. Heaven forbid they watch some French or Korean film that only has a few thousand votes...
It’s the exact same story with series—it’s either Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and the top 50 shows sorted by popularity, or nothing at all.
What’s the deal here: is it just pure trend-following, a total lack of will to actually dig deeper, or just mindlessly swallowing whatever content is the most popular?
Richard Wilson4 said:So, there’s this theory floating around that since Conan trains with weapons that look a lot like katanas, it’s actually proof he’s living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland rather than some ancient past.
Then you’ve got people claiming that because the text mentions things happening "before the sons of Arias," we're looking at some pre-Indo-European era where Conan is basically a Basque warrior. 🙂
Look, I get it, it’s definitely Fantasy. But the author was pretty adamant about the connection—if you’ve actually sat down with the books, there’s a map included that represents our own world, just slightly different. 🙂