sunflower1343

I don't understand how people couldn't enjoy this, but then humor is subjective. Maybe the problem is that nostalgia played such a strong role in the movie itself since it was set in 1962-3. But we thought the writing was strong, the casting was perfect, the dialogue was sharp and witty and the comedic timing was excellent. It was all over the top and silly, but in the best of ways. People like Hugh Grant, Christian Slater, Peter Dinklage and others hit just the right notes in walking the comedic line, and scenes like the utterly absurd funeral had us rolling.

We were also floored when we got to the end and realized that this managed to be that funny and was for the most part incredibly family friendly.

I hope Seinfeld does more films. I have to be honest and say I never watched his show except once or twice because I didn't enjoy it. This movie though was one I'll be watching again.

I went into this show so hopeful, and watched as the writers of this miniseries slowly decided that they could write a better story than Clavell, just like GoT. It got worse until the travesty of an episode 9 where they made ridiculous choices about Mariko and Blackthorn that destroyed the meaning behind their storylines. I'm disgusted with what they did, and I plan to watch the old version to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

Oh, and that lead actor? What a horrible, wooden face. He had no acting ability and acted like an imbecile rather than the educated man Blackthorn was in the book. Really, he couldn't speak decent Japanese until the end of the story? The show runner should admit that they didn't give a damn about his character.

I give this plus one star for the Japanese actors who were stellar.

This ends on a cliffhanger and they didn't advertise this as a part 1. That really annoyed me. It makes me not go to see the next part, because who knows if they'll do the same thing? I wouldn't be surprised if they string people along for a good 8 or 9 movies. The movie itself was the first movie x 10. I think they thought that if it was cool and worked in the first movie then they should put 10 times more of it in the second movie. It doesn't work that way, not for me. It was too full of "cool" things and didn't do enough to add depth and story. I didn't have to see 9000 Spider-people. I would have been happy with the ones from the first movie. Though Hobie was fun.

They lied by omission. I'm angry about it. I'm not going to see the next one.