I watched The Last Samurai this weekend. It was a really long film, and for the most part was really dull. It did have some really awesome fight scenes, the best of which was when a swarm (or gaggle?) of ninjas pours into a samurai village and totally starts flipping out and killing people. Here the film shows it’s unrealism because the samurai defeat the ninjas which is ludicrous. I looked up The Last Samurai online and found this review which starts:
The Last Samurai is the film that perfectly illustrates the Cinematic Ninja Theory, which I developed some years ago. The Cinematic Ninja Theory states that a movie is ten times better if it contains a ninja. There only needs to be one ninja in the film for the effect to occur; the ninja need not do anything spectacular or ninja-like. Even a flaming crapwagon of a movie like Moulin Rouge might have been decent if a ninja had crept quietly across the screen while Ewan Macgregor was singing Elton John inside the giant elephant. Man, did that movie suck.
Truer words have never been spoken. Ninjas are the real ultimate power.
