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If there is a "must see" movie this year - or perhaps the past 10 years - 13 Assassins is it. Mind blowing. Watched it with friends last night out on Nantucket. We stayed up to about 5AM talking about how f*cking awesome it is. My head is still spinning (and not from the 17 beers and 20 ounces of whiskey). It is THAT good.

This one?

That's the one. Trust me on this. It is a fabulous movie. It is beyond gruesome at parts. It is very realistic. Very intelligent. There are subtitles but so what. It is well worth the effort. It is not quite Episode V of Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark . . . but it is as close to the standard set by those films which, to me, is borderline perfection (for action based movies) or as close to perfect as possible.

Wow, it got a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes....not here yet.
Must be in limited release.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/13_assassins_2011/

It is only playing at one theatre in Massachusetts: a place in Cambridge known for more smaller budget productions (they play all of Bruce Campbell's movies there . . . Bubba Hotep, anyone? ).

We watched it last night on On Demand on my buddies house . .. which, ironically, has a movie theatre in it. So I guess it is playing at 2 theatres out here . . . kooky.

Looks like it blows away more recent samurai offerings, like Hero, and Crouching Tiger...
but I wasn't real impressed by some of the terrible looking skin-cap hairpieces i saw in the trailer.

I don't see it listed anywhere in my On Demand listings, so I'll just have to keep an eye out for it at my local indie-film house.

drunkpirate66 wrote:That's the one. Trust me on this. It is a fabulous movie. It is beyond gruesome at parts. It is very realistic. Very intelligent. There are subtitles but so what. It is well worth the effort. It is not quite Episode V of Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark . . . but it is as close to the standard set by those films which, to me, is borderline perfection (for action based movies) or as close to perfect as possible.

I don't know if I have ever seen/read quite a glowing review like this. LOL...your buddy should record it so it can make the rounds

Lightning Bolt wrote:Looks like it blows away more recent samurai offerings, like Hero, and Crouching Tiger...
but I wasn't real impressed by some of the terrible looking skin-cap hairpieces i saw in the trailer.

I don't see it listed anywhere in my On Demand listings, so I'll just have to keep an eye out for it at my local indie-film house.

Um . . . in the actual movie I am 99% certain that the actor's shaved the appropriate part of their heads for authenticity. We watched a short documentary on the making of this film where it showed the thoughtful costume and make up designs. Not that any of that matters because it kicks such tremendous as$.

I found it in my Xfinity/Comcast On Demand by going to "Movies", then "Same day as Theater" and then "Magnolia Pictures"
I'll watch it in the next couple of days.

sonofabeach wrote:I found it in my Xfinity/Comcast On Demand by going to "Movies", then "Same day as Theater" and then "Magnolia Pictures"
I'll watch it in the next couple of days.

Without giving anything away, there is a scene where a girl is brought in to convince the samurai to fight the bad guy. This girl has been tortured. Her hands and feet have been cut off. Her tongue has been removed. She writes the samurai a message using a stick and ink that she holds in her mouth. The camera is very close to her face as she does this and her performance will stop your heart. When she is done one of her helpers holds the message up so the samurai can see it. It reads "Total Massacre" . . . . letting the samurai know this bad guy, and his army, should get his as$ beat. It is one of the greatest scenes in a very long time of any movie I have watched. If THAT foreshadowing doesn't get you pumped up . . . nothing will.

Isn't foreshadowing what a groundhog does?

Or what a shadow yells when he plays golf. I always thought groundhogs were more of an adjective based literary rodent (or marmot - if you will) as, wait for it, they are sometimes referred to as "land" rodents. Land being a word that describes much like what adjectives have been known to do as of late.

drunkpirate66 wrote:Or what a shadow yells when he plays golf. I always thought groundhogs were more of an adjective based literary rodent (or marmot - if you will) as, wait for it, they are sometimes referred to as "land" rodents. Land being a word that describes much like what adjectives have been known to do as of late.

I think you just like the fact you can type Assassins twice

without it being censored. that or your being elitist again.

Marnin Grita Guy wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:Or what a shadow yells when he plays golf. I always thought groundhogs were more of an adjective based literary rodent (or marmot - if you will) as, wait for it, they are sometimes referred to as "land" rodents. Land being a word that describes much like what adjectives have been known to do as of late.

I think you just like the fact you can type Assassins twice

without it being censored. that or your being elitist again.

My elitist level spikes most every Sunday. Probably a by-product of the Patriots championship years where inflated ego and drunken power emerged most Sundays by 4PM. I also sailed by the Kennedy compound - illegally - once out off of Hyannisport just to smell the air they breathe. I still haven't come down from that high.

drunkpirate66 wrote:

Marnin Grita Guy wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:Or what a shadow yells when he plays golf. I always thought groundhogs were more of an adjective based literary rodent (or marmot - if you will) as, wait for it, they are sometimes referred to as "land" rodents. Land being a word that describes much like what adjectives have been known to do as of late.

I think you just like the fact you can type Assassins twice

without it being censored. that or your being elitist again.

My elitist level spikes most every Sunday. Probably a by-product of the Patriots championship years where inflated ego and drunken power emerged most Sundays by 4PM. I also sailed by the Kennedy compound - illegally - once out off of Hyannisport just to smell the air they breathe. I still haven't come down from that high.

I felt honored to see the driveway once.

fyi you can also get this movie at Redbox

popcornjack wrote:Isn't foreshadowing what a groundhog does?

groundhogs and writers

tigzoe wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:

Marnin Grita Guy wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:Or what a shadow yells when he plays golf. I always thought groundhogs were more of an adjective based literary rodent (or marmot - if you will) as, wait for it, they are sometimes referred to as "land" rodents. Land being a word that describes much like what adjectives have been known to do as of late.

I think you just like the fact you can type Assassins twice

without it being censored. that or your being elitist again.

My elitist level spikes most every Sunday. Probably a by-product of the Patriots championship years where inflated ego and drunken power emerged most Sundays by 4PM. I also sailed by the Kennedy compound - illegally - once out off of Hyannisport just to smell the air they breathe. I still haven't come down from that high.

I felt honored to see the driveway once.

i've been on the beach with him and family..and on the yacht club docks with him...nice having a parking pass to all the beaches...even the private ones.

I just finished this movie via on demand and I thought it was great. The last hour was pretty epic.
Not the best movie in the past tens years for me but quite entertaining.

What would be in your top 5 movies in the past ten years or so? . . . exact years don't really matter.

The only action/fighting based movies I would rank anywhere near 13 Assassins would be

1. Lord of the Rings which I love (all 3)
2. Dark Knight and Spider Man 2 (both are classics)
3. Star Trek (and I hate Star Trek - mostly. But I am a massive JJ Abrams fan and thought his version of Star Trek was a 4 star flick).
4. Kill Bill (both Volumes. Love that sh*t).
5. Inception . . . d*mn near perfect.

WALL-E and Pan's Labyrinth get honorable mentions.

None of those movies are "better" than 13 Assassins but they are all near it in quality and execution - plot and climax (insert joke here).

* The best movie in the past 30 years not named Empire Strikes Back or Raiders of the Lost Ark is Pulp Fiction. But that came out way past 10 years ago.