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beccaelizabethAgain as a picked it up cheap I am watching Tajomaru Avenging Blade.
If this had trigger warnings on I'd never have picked it up.
So far there's one named woman with a speaking part. She gets raped twice in the first half hour and then apparently turns evil. So far it is stinky.
And 'so far' is an hour and 20 minutes in.
They've spent the last ten recaping the plot for people who fell asleep in the first hour.
Also there's a character who is introduced being arrested for stealing a potato, and they say "once a thief always a thief" but the title character decides to take him in and treat him as family, and then twenty years later it turns out everyone was right and the kid was evil all along. Creepy.
Also it is strongly implied he's sexually abused by the Shogun, as a child and later, and that's why he gets fed up enough to go killing. Depths of eeeew and excuse me the victim is evil???
At about an hour thirty it turns out the girl was only raped once, despite what we saw earlier, and was only pretending to be evil. And she tries to kill herself twice because she's 'defiled', once with a knife and once by throwing herself off a cliff. The cliff thing logically should have killed her but it didn't.
Then everybody dies except the dude in the title and his girl.
They go off to be free bandits together or something. There's a sunset. And only one horse between them. Personally if I was going to ride off into the sunset I'd want a horse each.
The back of the box says "A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves"
Which doesn't resemble the plot very much at all.
Not least because they're not royal or a princess, unless I've misunderstood what deputies and councillors means.
It's more than two hours long. If it started as a television thing the pacing might make sense, with the mid film recap.
And it's really really rubbish weird bad.
I'm considering throwing it away. That bad.
If this had trigger warnings on I'd never have picked it up.
So far there's one named woman with a speaking part. She gets raped twice in the first half hour and then apparently turns evil. So far it is stinky.
And 'so far' is an hour and 20 minutes in.
They've spent the last ten recaping the plot for people who fell asleep in the first hour.
Also there's a character who is introduced being arrested for stealing a potato, and they say "once a thief always a thief" but the title character decides to take him in and treat him as family, and then twenty years later it turns out everyone was right and the kid was evil all along. Creepy.
Also it is strongly implied he's sexually abused by the Shogun, as a child and later, and that's why he gets fed up enough to go killing. Depths of eeeew and excuse me the victim is evil???
At about an hour thirty it turns out the girl was only raped once, despite what we saw earlier, and was only pretending to be evil. And she tries to kill herself twice because she's 'defiled', once with a knife and once by throwing herself off a cliff. The cliff thing logically should have killed her but it didn't.
Then everybody dies except the dude in the title and his girl.
They go off to be free bandits together or something. There's a sunset. And only one horse between them. Personally if I was going to ride off into the sunset I'd want a horse each.
The back of the box says "A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves"
Which doesn't resemble the plot very much at all.
Not least because they're not royal or a princess, unless I've misunderstood what deputies and councillors means.
It's more than two hours long. If it started as a television thing the pacing might make sense, with the mid film recap.
And it's really really rubbish weird bad.
I'm considering throwing it away. That bad.
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Date: 2011-04-18 12:22 pm (UTC)Reminds me of that book review by Dorothy Parker - "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Perhaps you could try frisbeeing the DVD? Or you could just put a string through the middle, hang it in the window, and use it to make rainbows. It'd certainly be much more fun that way.
Thank you, becca, for watching horrid movies so the rest of us don't have to. :)