The Reel Rejects - THE LAST SAMURAI (2003) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

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Let's get into Last Samurai. A great movie. Yes, great. If you are listening to us on Apple or Spotify, if you don't mind giving us a rating, we would really appreciate it. Wow. Yeah, that's normally not a Tom Cruise role.

I am accustomed to seeing, although obviously I have seen Tropic Thunder and Collateral, which are definitely different types of roles for him. And he was fantastic in those two films as well. but I really love Tom Cruise and this. And Ken Watanabe and all the other actors. I mean, we'll get into all that. Ken Watanabe is probably the standout for me,

although I really love the character arc that Tom Cruise's character goes, you know, his character goes throughout the film. I mean, just, you know, he's got the PTSD, which again, very natural normal thing that any character who has fought through any battles, you know, would normally go through. But I like, too, that we can see that before.

they actually give us the visual storytelling of why he's going through that and why he's got so much remorse on the PTSD. It's, you know, he was in a battle and he was given an order he did not want to have to submit to by a piece of crap, Tony Goldwyn's character. And I mean, these were defenseless, helpless, you know, Native Americans that he did not want to have to fire and kill. And, you know, he, again, he didn't want to do it. But it was an order and in war even when you don't want to do something sometimes you have no choice so you know you can tell how why this man is so troubled and i just i love you know he's really got no you know and then he's a very cynical man at the beginning as well you know he's he's he's a drunk very cynical and you know he's

very like you know he's just his whole thing in life is just like you know uh you know if you pay me money okay I'll go do a job but I just don't give a crap about anything and I just love that you know learning the traditions of the samurai way and you know learning honor and just this whole character arc he goes through it just and the way the the film just really breathes and takes its time with him I really and the relationship he garners not only with the the I forgot the woman's name which was such a beautiful relationship but his relationship with Ken Watanabe It was just so beautifully done and just such a well-earned arc that just, again, really took its time. I don't, you know, I think one of my biggest pet peeves, Aaron, when I'm watching films, obviously I love character arcs. You know, does a character change throughout a film? But is it earned? And does a film take its time? Because that's a thing that a pet peeve of mine is when a film rushes a character's arc.

You know, it's like, okay, it just didn't work for me. It just felt too rushed. And I really feel this film took its time. And for a film that's two hours and 30-some-odd minutes, I really never felt the time in any way. It just was really well-paced. Never felt the runtime once. Never looked at my watch once.

Never, you know, ever felt that runtime. It just, you know, oh, wow, Joe Kramer worked on this. He's a stunt guy. I worked on Terminator, many other films. Anyways, I'm getting a little off track. I got many other things I want to say. But amazing. why don't you go ahead

and then I'll get into some other things that I loved. Yeah, that was great. I really enjoyed the arc that we got to see his character going on, Tom Cruise, being someone who is this a man who's kind of lost, who's traumatized, who has no

real reason to live or keep going on when we see him at the beginning through this natural progression of finding a reason to fight again. I thought it was very well earned and the The arc felt very natural for this character that we saw over the course of this two-and-a-half-hour movie.

And kind of like Andrews said, I really felt no drag or no lull during this movie. Every scene was essential. I will say it's funny because I think as we've grown accustomed to seeing different types of films, whether just being life or on this channel, I'm more aware and conscious of like how action films are shot or how action scenes are shot.

And though there was a number of cuts within the action scene, I was never, I was aware of it, but I didn't find it jarring. I felt like it was very well done because I like, I'm someone who likes watching shots in their entirety, you know, watching these scenes play out over the course of one take. But the way that this action was shot, coupled with the music, was very immersive. And I thought that it played very well. Ken Watanabe was also really great in the film, watching him from start to finish. and I learned a lot while watching this movie. You know, I don't know how much of this is true. But watching this struggle between the old ways of Japan,

kind of coming to clash with the new ways of Japan, was very interesting. Yes. You know, I do, I think the sign of a good movie is, one, it leaves with a feeling, too. It makes you want to learn more about the world, do more research, whether it be about the film itself or about the time period or the inner workings of how that went down.

And yeah, I'm definitely very, very curious. You know, I'm curious as to, you know, the role ninjas play into this old world versus a new world kind of dichotomy that the film established. Are they something that is more of the old world? There's something that's kind of being implemented. Are they more of like the black ops of the new world? Yeah, all questions I'm still still curious about. But I like that the major themes of this movie were about honor, were about how we show up. for about what we fight for and watching this character these characters really display this

this honor this discipline and this sense of purpose you know it was very very inspiring very um you know interesting um to watch interesting not the word i was looking for but uh it was yeah it was just it was just a lot you know coupled with just all the different performances and you really got invested within these characters that we got to follow over the course of this film. Whether it be Ken Wantsnobie's son, whether it be the dude who didn't really like him at the beginning and then learned to respect him.

Bob, even though Bob did have any lines, you know, he still fell for Bob when he died. Yeah, no, there were three different times, at least a few different times where I was shedding some tears. I had really grown invested and love for these characters. And you made the point even with Bob, like you didn't really speak any lines, but his facial expressions, the way he mowed it.

And the traditions that these characters, like, you know, I really grew to love for these characters and Hirouki's character and Ken Watanabe's son. Like, I mean, these characters didn't have a ton of lines. And I really love, too, the respect that they garnered for Tom Cruise. Again, that's what I was talking about, too, where this film really took its time and, you know, let it breathe a little bit. And, you know, his character, we saw, too,

like, even though he was a drunk and very cynical man in the beginning, like he's still a bad like he saw when he was drunk he was still able to fire really well in the very beginning scene when they were selling the guns or whatever that they were doing and even when he was training uh the army at the beginning as well like he's clearly a badass he's been through a lot of battles he's very uh war tested and all that and clearly a badass uh point i'm making is um as badass as he is like hand-to-hand combat wise he's got nothing on the samurai And I love that like, you know, going through the passage of time that he spent with them. Like, again, like, you know, he was completely a novice at that point, you know,

whether it came to speaking the language, just learning the ways, the hand-to-hand fighting. Like, he was just so out of his depth and element. And I love, like, taking its time, just really garnering that respect from everyone. Even, like, the woman he, you know, again, I love when you called that out, too. this film did such a beautiful job of visual storytelling without spoon feeding us. Exactly. I was going to say that. It really, like the writers and the director, Edward Zwick, did a good job, like, hey, we're not going to treat the audience as idiots.

We're going to, you know, yes, we're going to reveal it, but let's, you know, let the audience try to figure it out for themselves before we reveal it. And Aaron being smarter than myself was able to get that just from the, from seeing that armor. I should have picked that up too. But that was a good call by Aaron. And again, visual storytelling right there was very powerful, you know, the way it was invoking us. Just seeing it right there, you were able to go, oh, my God, yeah, that's the wife of the guy that Tom Cruise killed.

But I love to, again, garnering that respect that they had for Tom Cruise. Like, this is, again, you talk about like, yes, it's tradition. It's glorious to die in battle. It's the samurai way. But still, like, at the end of the day, we are still human beings. And she was caring for the man that, even if it was self-defense, this is the man that murdered. or that, not murder, but it's self-defended and killed her husband. So, like, the arc she has to go through and the respect, like, it was, like, you believe

and buy it that the way she felt for Tom Cruise, for Nathan, you know, towards the end, like, it's, it's believable. And the kids, they know that this is the man that killed their dad. But by the time, like, the fatherly figure that he is for them, like, it's totally believable, you know, and in whether it's the samurai way or not, like, the way that these relationships were developed. Yeah. And they really, again, I know.

I'm repeating myself, but the way that it just takes its time and has never felt rushed, it's very organic. And I just love that feeling. Yeah, this movie is very organic. I love that it doesn't fall exactly into the white savior trope of like, he has to be, Tom Cruise is the man to save these Japanese people from the evil imperial. Never feels that way. No, he is there in support and he's there to learn something from these people.

And at the end of the day, it's still there. battle, it's still their journey that they have to go on to fight for themselves, to fight for their honor, to fight for what they believe is right, you know, and Tom Cruise learned from them and is of aid to them. I think the only part of like, kind of, that's the case where like when they save Ken Watanabe before they retreat back, but that's like a scene within the context of this, this two plus hour movie. But yeah, I thought everything felt natural, felt organic and I like that the emperor finally came around and grew his spine at the end. I mean, if he would have done that a little earlier, but obviously we don't have the movie,

but it would have been nice if he would have done. But I get it. Like he was very young. He's still, I don't know how many years he had been the emperor, but it seemed like he was a little inexperienced. And also, too, he's got that one guy who we kept saying at the end, shut up. He clearly was in his, you know, just, I don't know if the word manipulating his right word, but clearly was in his influencing it.

Influencing and in his ear at all times just like, you know, making him make choices that he clearly didn't want to make. But again, being so young and inexperienced, you know, that was having a major, like you said, influence on him. He wasn't comfortable in that position. Oh, no, for sure. It was a role definitely didn't, you know, wasn't comfortable taking at first. But like now he embraced it from everything. But I like that reveal too, again, that was an interesting reveal that Ken Watanabe was his teacher. Yeah.

Which makes sense because, again, Samurai's. are the old defenders. And I like that you said, too, like, it's interesting, too, like, if this is true in terms of, like, the clash between the old and the new world, I just think that just makes for such a fascinating story just in terms of war. I want to talk a little bit about the action sequences. I mean, we kind of, you kind of already touched up a little bit on it. Yeah, there were some times where there were some quick cuts for sure.

I just think when there's so many, you know, actors in a scene like this with the choreography, that you're just going to run into that, you know, kind of thing. But I still thought these action sequences, especially that last battle. Oh, my God. And you could tell, too, it was very Lord of the Rings-esque and what I mean by that before we before they got to the Hobbit. There was not really much CGI. It was just actors like doing choreography.

And it was, I was just so appreciative of the fact. It felt so damn real. I don't know how they did the choreography for those scenes, especially at the end there. but I can only imagine how freaking hard that must have been to do the choreography because that was so damn impressive, especially when you factor in that's very practical. There's hardly any CGI other than maybe a couple of those shots. I would imagine some shots of maybe guys who are like on when the what are the cannons

or maybe some of those shots. But overall, there's hardly any CGI. It's mostly all practical. So I was just, wow, that was amazing. And that shot were Tom Cruise. the sword at Tony. That was so satisfying. To wait two hours and 20 minutes for that was so damn satisfying. Yeah. And again,

they built you up to hate that character so much. And he wasn't really even in the film very much. He's in maybe at like 20 minutes of screen time. But I love how they built up that character so much for you to hate him that when that happens, you're like yes. I like how focused the movie was too.

Yeah. It's like you have that relationship between Tom Cruise and Ken what? Not Ken one's not to be the girl. But it wasn't, it it wasn't the primary focus of the movie it was just sparing enough it was just there enough to give Tom Cruise root and reason

to come back to these people to have like an emotional grounding with this place and these people and falling in love with their culture and you know it focused on his relationship with Ken Watanabe all of these things were in service of his journey both Ken

Watanabe and Tom Cruise's journey over the course of the film you know and you you got this this sense over the course that Ken Watanabe felt like he needed to um he felt a kinship to tom cruz's character and he did want to to die of honor which he did get at the end of the film and i kind of i know i said in as we were watching it that he was going to uh he might have lived but i as we got further into it and prior to that moment i was like oh yeah he has to die you know i think it was just the poem thing but right i'm like he didn't get the chance to

also too there was that line there was definitely some foreshadowing in the film too because uh there was that line he's i forgot what the line particularly was uh that can watanabi said to tom cruz was i believe it was the first line uh scene that they had where they were uh having a conversation he said uh hopefully i can have like a glorious death or something like yeah yeah yeah maybe you will or something i forgot what the line was you guys can correct me in the comments but um it was on and i was like is i hope that's not foreshadowing i said something like that but yeah no it was some good but also, too, we were talking about Bob and Hiroyuki and some of these other characters that we've grown and invested. I really liked Timothy Spall's character, Peter Pedigrew.

You know, he wasn't in the film a ton either, but like just, I know he's just the translator, but I mean, simple character, but I really liked his character a lot too. You know, just like he had seen, like, I think the wood had turned. I mean, I don't know if turned is the right word, but just like he saw like the wrong, even though he was just translating, it wasn't so much an evil character or anything, but he saw the wrongdoing and what the side he was translating for when they cut off, you know, his hair, one of the samurai's hair. And he's like, I mean, he'd already grown in an attachment towards Tom Cruise's character just from the beginning. He already liked him. But seeing that, he was like, okay, like anything you need. I'm here for you. But I really,

yeah, I really liked that. And also, too, I love that scene where he had to improvise on the spot. These guys are pointing consent. He said he's the president of the United. You know, this, this film had, I mean, it wasn't like a, you know, it didn't have a ton of humor. But In certain spots, I really did appreciate the humor. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But I did like the spots where I did use it. And Edward Zwick, again, I have not seen, I don't know how about you, I have not seen a ton of Edward Zwick films.

I've seen Glory, which I believe came out in 1989. It was starring Matthew Broderick. It had Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman. I think he always mispronounce his name. I think he's from the first saw film, many other films. Which movie did you say? Glory. We watched Mean Rocks, Rocks.

Oh, I don't, we watched it at some point. Yeah, yeah. It'll be up. I don't know, I don't know the timetable. Anyways, I saw that so long ago in middle school. I don't really remember. I just remember it was a good film, but again, it's been 20 something years. But I remember that being a good film.

And the only other film of Edwards, I know he's got a longevity of a career. And he's a very good director from the films I've looked at that he's done. And I know he did. I will not know. And the only other film, rather, that I've seen of his was, as mentioned, Jack Richard never go back. And I, like many of you, I did not. I love the first one that Christopher McQuarrie did.

I never seen it. Either one. No. I haven't seen either one or the show. Well, you can see the first one. But for entertaining or for laughable purposes, you can see the second. But it's, I understand why Tom Cruise would want to work with him again. I mean, clearly they had a good thing going.

with this film, but it's, you know, not every, I mean, not every film you do is going to be a winner, obviously. I mean, I mean, everyone makes a stinker at some point. And I guess for Edward Zwick, that was Jack Richard, go back, never go back, rather. But it's just, it's interesting to me to see, like, again, I've only seen two films of his, but, and which are both war films set in the 1800s. But interesting to see that, that same director. Like, I would, I would never think if I, if I didn't see that, his name was attached to that. But I thought in terms of the direction in this film, like, got the shots he wanted to get. The direction he did, he got, the performances he got from the actors, absolutely phenomenal,

especially Ken Watanabe, great. And Tom Cruise, like I said, type of role he did in this. Usually what I would not expect from a Tom Cruise performance, he was fantastic. Everyone else. And even that one character we talked about, like we hated, not Tony Goldman, which he was great too, but the other one we were saying to shut your mouth at the end. And, like, we hated his character, but, like, that's what we're supposed to feel. Like, I thought he gave a great performance that guy.

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Well, and I thought Edwardswick did a great job of directing the actors. And again, the action sequences. Speaking of, I saw before the screen went black, is that this movie won four Oscars. Did it really? Yeah. Oh, what did it? Do you remember what? It just said four Oscars on the top.

Oh, okay. Well, we'll have to, we'll try to look it up because we will get to the IMDB facts and all that, or the trivia for you guys in a second. But, yeah, no, in terms of, obviously, we got to talk about the great Hans Zimmer. That score, again, not usually a score. that, I mean, he's proved at this point. He's so versatile. He can just do anything, you know, from Lion King to Dune to, even Mission Impossible, too. I mean, I'm going out of my depth here with, he just does everything.

And I love, like, the authentic feel to, you know, the time period piece and, like, getting that samurai feel to it and all that. I mean, he just really nailed it in the dramatic sequences, like, you know, and also, too, like the action sequences, just how I was feeling is what he was. was invoking in his music. And I think, like, you know, you always talk about, like, a movie's supposed to make you feel. And I always feel that way. And I agree with that. But I always feel that too, whenever I hear, you know, a score in a film. Like, I want to feel something. Like, I want to be able to hear that music, not be able to see anything and feel. And I really felt

like this score just really did a good job. And there was a beat there at the end. It was, I was like, and I think I even said out loud, like, this is so damn beautiful. I was really good score by Anzimmer. What did you think? I thought the score was great. Yeah, it's very different from what I'm accustomed to from Hans Zimmer. Obviously, as a very large catalog. I think when I think Hans Zimmer, I think of Christopher Nolan.

But yeah, this is very different from what I traditionally think of from him, because it had those moments of epicness and had those soft music, those soft moments that make you think of of Japan. Yeah. Of those for sure. Of those more

and the time it came and exactly it felt appropriate for the time period that it was in as well and i'm curious to know like the process behind that and like what goes into and inspiring the type of music that's a great that goes into that's a great point i would love to know too like with with all these composers especially the best composers like what what what's the process with getting into the score like do you talk to the director do you do you read the script like how does the whole it's i'm fascinated too that's a great question that you pose I would love to know that because I definitely listened to a lot of times when I watched behind the scenes back in the day, I definitely was very like open minded when I was listening to composers. But that is an interesting question that you pose. And the cinematography in this film, so, so damn beautiful. And the production design, I love, I think my favorite, I want to know what your favorite set was, but the production design for that, the samurai village, I could, it was so magnificent, so beautiful. I just really hit upon the time. timepiece that we were in. And also, too, speaking of the time piece, just everywhere, like,

even when we got back to, I believe it was Tokyo, just really, again, just really nailed that late 1860s or 1870s, rather, look that they were going for, the aesthetics, the clothing, just everything was really nailed down so beautifully in this film. I just, I mean, everything across the board, beautiful film, the performances from everyone, the character arcs, especially Tom Cruise's character, Ken Watanabe's performance out of this world. I believe this was his first American film. If I'm mistaken, please let me know. I'm going to look at the IMDB trivia effects. But the only reason I knew this is because I'd watch Batman Begins and I think it, I was, I looked up his career way back in the day. So I think I, but again, I'm going to look up the

IMD trivia effects, but his performance, like masterful performance. He's such a damn good actor. but yeah great film very powerful film might be one of my I know as always as I say this so fresh off of just watching this but this might be one of my favorite Tom Cruise films

I can say that definitely it's definitely up there it's a great film yeah I didn't get the chance to see it but I have a friend who was in high school with me shout out to Zach F I don't want to say his last name

but yeah he used to love this movie oh yeah well now you can call Zach F after this and tell him to F, I mean, that was a effing good movie. Yeah, yeah, no, I would love to talk to them about it because, yeah, I understand why he loves it. This is a very honorable film. Oh, right. It's very well made, very, very good.

Well, it makes sense. More like this, 300. Well, we got that shout out to 300 during the movie, so, all right, we'll read to you some IMDB trivia facts. So Tom Cruise spent almost two years in preparation for this film, including Sword Plan instruction and Japanese language lessons, I totally believe that. And with that dude, he is so committed to whether it comes to stunts, whether it comes to whatever it is in a role, like say what you want about him off the screen. Like, yeah, he might be a little whatever. But when it comes to on

screen, he is so committed to doing things authentically, organically, and the right way. So I believe that. I believe that fact. Whatever, if it would have said seven years, I would have believed that. but I totally believe that because watching him in that role from the sword play to hearing him speaking Japanese like I can't imagine how I mean I think I even said that while we were reacting like how much time did it take for him to learn all this oh man yeah but there's committed oh yeah and I'm we're so appreciative of that truly so this not only marks the first time Ken Watanabe started an American made film okay I think I'd read that way back in the day because of Batman begins but this is the first time he spoke English in a movie that I'm okay that That I did not, that I did not know. Okay. All right. Ken Watanavi, I see you. All right.

Cool. Let's see what else. Got to find some good ones. Contrary to popular misconception, the title of this movie does not refer to Captain Nathan Algren or Katsamoto. The word samurai here is in the plural form and refers to Katsamoto's clan as a whole, the last samurai. Okay. I see.

Okay. That makes more sense. that i like that a lot okay let's see i wonder if this is how how accurate this is this based on a true story here we go although this movie seems to imply that the that japan's new army was trained by the americans in fact it was the prusion general staff that assisted in the modernization of japan's army ah the what prusion i don't did i say that right the prusion i don't No. Okay. But it's Persian. I don't know what that is.

There's your answer. This movie made more money at the box office in Japan than in the United States. I'm glad it made a lot in Japan. That's great. That's awesome. That's awesome. I can see that. But I wish it would have made. I mean, again, I'm just saying that I don't know how much it made in the U.S.

But I wish it wouldn't have made even more. But I'm just saying that based on not knowing how much it made. So Tom Cruise narrowly escaped potentially fatal injuries. Oh. after a sword was swung within one inch of his neck while filming. He and co-star Hiro Yuki Sanada were acting out a sword fight scene when the incident happened. Sonata swung a sword at Cruz, who was on an off-camera mechanical horse at the time. But the machine reportedly malfunctioned and failed to duck at the right moment.

Sonata stopped the blade just one inch from his neck. You know, I fear, I hope this never happens. would. I fear one day. I always go, I hope today's not the day we hear that there's been a horrific injury to Tom Cruise on a set of one of his movies because the dude just like I said, he always does death defying stunts in his movie. That's not shocked to see that. That almost happened there because I can imagine like all these stunts he ever does. They're so insane, but I never thought like in this movie that'd be one. But yeah, because I do even remember too in, oh, you've never seen Mission Impossible film, so I'm not even going to get into. But I remember an M.

I, too, with the knife to the eye. I remember how close that was, but y'all know what I'm talking about. He doesn't, but, um, let's see. Gotta find a good one here, guys. Let's see. I'll do like one or two more. Oh, wow. This movie marks the 100th score for Hans Zimmer.

One hundredth? Only a hundred. That's it. That's, this movie is 20 years ago. Damn. Oh, my God. Imagine how many. And that's like before like Nolan, like really, because I think no one's, really ramped up.

Yeah, because Nolan did in, well, he did Memento in 2000. Then he did Insomnia in 2002, if I'm not mistaken. And then Batman begins, 2005, 2005, and then Prestige, 2006, and then Dark Night in 2008. Then blah, blah, blah, blah, a million movies after that. So, I mean, but Hans Zimmer's done a million other movies besides the Christopher Nolan films. See, he's not just a Christopher Nolan guy. He did the Amazing Spider-Man 2. Yeah.

Junkie X-L. Please, let's not talk about that movie. I like that movie. We're going to fight. seriously. I know there's a lot of you who do like that movie, but I'm sorry. Andrew Garfoot, the best Spider-Man. He's a mate. Him, I love.

Him and Gwen Stacy in that movie, I actually like. Chemistry is on point. It's just the rest of them. It's the rest of the movie. Okay, let's see. Oh, I didn't notice this. Maybe you did. I have to rewatch that. So before the final battle, as Captain Algren, Tom Cruise, dismounts,

After riding back to the ranks with Casamodo, his horse kicks out and hits a warrior in the groin. I did not notice that. I did not notice. I think I would have said that. Did you guys notice? I mean, because again, it's so much chaos is ensuing. Maybe you guys on re. How about this?

I pose this question. Did you know, because it's our first time? Did you notice that on the first time? Maybe you notice that on repeat, but be honest. Did you notice that the first time? Or did you not notice it until we just said it right now? notice it until we said it yeah but if you truly notice it the first time the damn good eyes on you because i did not notice that at all you got the eye of tiger yeah now i see what you did there

i'm gonna re when we i rewatch it again i'm specifically going to look out for that now all right i'll do one more let's see got to get one moly one more it's find a good one here we're almost a 30 okay i definitely want to see this one because i believe this All right, let's see. So for the climactic battle scenes, over 500 Japanese extras trained for 10 days at the Clifton Rugby Grounds in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Again, there was that one...

That's a lot. But there was that one shot where in my head, I'm like, this is Lord of the Rings S where it's no CGI. It's just real act. I never... It feels so damn real. And that, like, that is so believable to me. like hearing that there's 500 damn acts like so many people i don't know how you how do you choreography

that like just choreographing a scene of like five to 10 people is so damn hard right how do you do that that's impressive how long did they to shoot first of all yeah i i'm i'm very that's a great question that that battle scene at the end i got to imagine like just again this is me spitballing here i got to imagine that that probably takes a couple months at least wouldn't you think so i think so two months to film at least a month or two no no I mean, you've got to get all the proper shots. You got to get everything flowing the right way. Let me know in the comments section.

Two months alone. Let Aaron and I know. If you guys know the answer. I can see like a week, maybe two weeks. But two months is wild. That's a lot of money of just a shoot. I mean, it's a long. That was like, what, a 30 minute sequence?

And of like, how long do you think this movie talked to shoot? Like three months, five months? Three or five months? Probably like three or four months, probably. So you think out of four months, half of that was just. Well, I mean, most of the movie, like, other than the three battle sequence, most of the movies just dialogue scenes. So those, like, you know, those don't take too long to film. Not too long.

Nothing like the action sequences at the point I'm making. So I feel like that. I think we can agree that was by far going to take the longest issue is that final battles. And it's not a stretch of the imagination. I can be real math. I feel like at least three to four weeks at. But let us know in the comment section, how long you think, or if you did the research and you know, let us know. also let us know which Academy Awards this won or was nominated for,

although we're probably going to look it up afterwards, but we'd still love to hear. Anyways, satisfying film, like I said, one of my favorite Tom Cruise films. It was a very beautiful film. I love, just again, the themes of honor tradition, not forgetting the old ways, remembering it. We can still embrace the new ways while not forgetting the old ways. I just, I love that message and theme. And again, the character arc of Tom Cruise's character, just so damn well earned.

just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful film. Anyways, let us know in the comments. What did you think of this film? Are there any other films in the vein of this style that you'd like, Aaron, myself, any other members of the team to react to? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments section. Until then, we'll see you guys next time. Gabriel, with it being the month of Valentine,

I am so happy to have you here because just, with your particular cadence about your belief system and whatnot. I am so happy to say that, hey, I'm going to my woman for quite a while. It's time we invite a special someone into the bedroom to watch, not to actually participate. You're only allowed to watch. And you have to also not let my wife know that you're there. this is a little covenant that you and I are making between us because frankly if she finds out I'm going to have to blame you

and I'm going to have to act like I had no idea that I invited you there and what does it say about you that you agreed to something like this when clearly my wife was not comfortable with it that is an abuse of power and you know what man to be doing that to women is sick you should be ashamed of yourself you are a terrible person. Shame on you, Gabriel. We're going to cancel your ass. And it's a nice ass, man. Shout out complete.