The Last Samurai is significantly better than Braveheart, amirite?

Not unpopular with me, The Last Samurai was brilliant.

by Visual-Range 2 days ago

Loved it when I first saw it as a kid, love it even more now as an adult - great movie even if inaccurate.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Bite your tongue 🤐

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The Last Samurai slaps. Braveheart is alright, too, but Mel's wandering accent takes me out of it.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The awful slo-mo cinematography takes me out of it. I had never seen Braveheart and had been hearing about it for decades and was pretty whelmed when I finally watched it

by Cristjulie 2 days ago

I love Braveheart too much tbh

by shanelle34 2 days ago

There are some incredible scenes in Braveheart. That was like the first movie that showed two armies actually colliding with each other iirc. Up until then armies would charge and then the camera would cut away. I think we take that for granted now.

by SimilarWrangler2667 2 days ago

The scene where the king throws the lad out the window is my favourite. Patrick McGoohan was excellent as Longshanks

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Are those two movies that often get compared to each other?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

No

by scarlettcormier 2 days ago

This is unpopular?

by Front-Marionberry 2 days ago

Why would this be unpopular? Its just straight up a better film with actual character growth. Used to be my favourite film. Now I find a few choices a little questionable but its still an amazing movie.

by Diegowiegand 2 days ago

I've never seen Braveheart but my mom complains constantly about that being the longest movie she's ever seen.

by Southern_Dig 2 days ago

47 Ronin is a better movie than Last Samurai

by Turbulent_Oil_8998 2 days ago

Braveheart is an elite movie. I will not stand for the retcon of people watching it 30 years later and it seeming "dated" or "ahistorical".

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I mean Hollywood is crazy. First they have the Mexican with Brad Pitt now they've got The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise.

by Hot-Surround-7455 2 days ago

Loved last samurai, tom cruises best movie imo. Braveheart was still better

by Complete-Currency977 1 day ago

During the Satsuma Rebellion the samurai primarily fought with guns, not swords. It was only in the last battle when they ran out of ammunition, that they charged the enemy with swords (and died).

by HumbleEssay 1 day ago

I'll get crucified for this but that's fairly common in many artistic works, including Shakespeare for example

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Neither film sort to replicste history but more capture a spirit of the time - like nostalgia for a place & time youve never been.

by Diegowiegand 1 day ago

Braveheart was literally a biographical film. By definition it attempted to replicate history. It did a laughably bad job at this.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Everything is significantly better than Braveheart.

by Good-Revenue 1 day ago

1000%

by Anonymous 1 day ago

This

by Front-Marionberry 1 day ago

I mean, for their time tho.

by SimilarWrangler2667 1 day ago

Huh? Yeah, no sh*t.

by Legitimate-Form 1 day ago

Braveheart offended me as a Scottish person.

by Brilliant-Leave2894 1 day ago

I do usually fall out of Braveheart like 60% of the way through. "I have two more hours of this??"

by SimilarWrangler2667 1 day ago

Last Samurai isn't a white saviour movie. It's Japan that saves him, not the other way around.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

The White Savior trope of the white guy showing up and.... everyone dying? After pulling the white guy out of spiraling depression and alcoholism....?

by Littleelsie 1 day ago

They more or less say Tom Cruise's character introduced baseball to Japan lol

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I hear you, but he also keeps the memory and deeds of Katsumoto (sp?) alive, and straightens out the emperor's beliefs and actions at the end. He ends up being the last samurai and (you could surmise) keeps the samurai traditions alive. I think the description fits.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Yeah that's the one. I will never look past it rather it shows me that white men will let the world burn around them to make themselves their own hero. I see this as an inner weakness in that particular race's ideology.

by scarlettcormier 1 day ago

Are there really still people who unironically believe The Last Samurai is a white savior movie?

by Own_Cry 1 day ago