Comments on: Takashi Miike Film Lines Up Graphic-Novel Adaptation ‘Lesson Of The Evil,’ Wants To Have It Ready For Venice https://staging2.theplaylist.net/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-20120307/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Cameron https://staging2.theplaylist.net/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-20120307/#comment-81377 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:51:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-112421/#comment-81377 13 assassins is a really good movie, samurais are pretty badass, but I do like Afro Samurai: Resurrection better because it\’s more fun and it\’s an over the top take on the samurai genre, and yakuza apocalypse (also from Takashi miike) is also more fun than 13 assassins and that one is an over the top take on the vampire genre that gives all the twilight bullshit the middle finger

]]> By: Gary Convex https://staging2.theplaylist.net/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-20120307/#comment-81378 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:51:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-112421/#comment-81378 Other than the production design, I will never understand all the love for 13 Assassins. It's a dull story without a single interesting character, poorly paced, lazily directed (count the number of interior scenes where all Miike can come up with for camera placement is to move it left-right or right-left on a low tracking shot), badly edited (see specifically the scene in the middle when they come down from the mountain to enter the town – there is a shot where they're on foot, then a shot of them on horseback, then a shot of them on foot again in a location that makes no sense spatially). Even the premise of the movie makes no sense: why in order to assassinate a single man would wait until he's accompanied by an entire army to attack him? Seriously, that was the plan?

But all that aside the thing that really pissed me off about the movie was that the filmmakers completely ignored the whole point of every samurai movie – that strength of character not strength of sword is what makes a warrior. Instead it ends with **SPOILER** the lone remaining samurai deciding he's not going to be a samurai anymore because times done changed or some shit. YOU CAN'T GIVE UP. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING A SAMURAI!! And why ronin movies are so inherently tragic and badass …. Bullshit, I tell you.

]]> By: Travis Hopson https://staging2.theplaylist.net/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-20120307/#comment-81379 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:51:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/takashi-miike-film-lines-up-graphic-novel-adaptation-lesson-of-the-evil-wants-to-have-it-ready-for-venice-112421/#comment-81379 Thanks for the mention, gang. Love the site!

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