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  • Killer movie, one of the best of Kurasawa’s samurai films, second only to Seven Samurai and arguably more entertaining than Ran.

    One of my favorite parts is towards the beginning where these conspiring young samurai realize they’re surrounded by the enemy, look at each other, and grimly draw their swords to meet certain death. Mifune’s character’s like: nah, c’mon no need for that… and takes control of things. There are lots of moments like that, even more important than the sword fighting. Like the very last fight, it doesn’t matter how it happened, it matters more that it did happen and why.




  • I’d heard about this movie before but kind of ignored it, dunno why…I’m interested in the time period and I’ve known some stage magicians so I should have been into it sooner. Once I watched like 10 minutes tho, even as background, I was really into it. The story’s a little bit predictable but still satisfying… it’s shot well too (cinematographer was nominated for an Oscar) and the soundtrack (by Philip Glass) is great… The movie reaches for a couple weighty themes and it ALMOST reaches them… or maybe it does, I dunno…

    Anyway check it out, it’s only been up 3 days tho I think the folks who put it up actually have licensed it tho who knows how long they’ll keep it up anyways.


















  • I usually post this announcement on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world but this week’s Monsterdon is so clearly a superior A-list movie that… well OK I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s not as bad as most B-movies.

    See what happened is: every week people on mastodon (the fediverse twitter replacement) get together for a B-movie watch party usually focused on monsters. But for the last two weeks, the movies have not just campy but a little more bad than expected. So this week they played it safe and picked a slightly better movie than usual.

    Anyway, it’s a lot of fun, it’s got nostalgia value, it’s meme-worthy, it’s got Dolph “Rocky IV / Creed II” Lundgren, Courtney “Friends” Cox, and Oscar-nominee Frank Lagella, and here’s your chance to watch it along with a bunch of wits and miscreants from across the fediverse. So only one question remains: Do you have the power?