Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
My beef (hehe pun) with "Last Samurai" was that if they wanted to do an all out, drag-out samurai film, they should have chosen an earlier time. But i suppose that would have given them less excuse to make the movie really all about some white guy who out samurai's the samurai. It's been pointed out many times that purporting that samurai were somehow hardcore retro's who used swords and bows INSTEAD of guns in the 1800's, when the samurai unification battles of the late 1500's and early 1600's had been almost entirely gun-fought, was really wildly off mark.
But comeon... it was a good movie.. even from a japanese guy like me (except the part that Tom Cruise became like the best Samurai after doing like few months of training)

Ok maybe its just that I never done Japanese history

As for enemy at the gates... Oh the Russian had lots of people.. Fact that Russian had the most amount of casualty in WWII shows that. As for the reasoning of their victory, its not really the achievement of early soviet army but more of heroic achievement of general 'winter' and Hitlers stupidity. Or that Germans were incredibly outnumbered.