Comments on: Blind swordsmen are like football teams with ten men https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2009/01/blind-swordsmen-are-like-football-teams-with-ten-men Lollards in the high church of low culture Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2009/01/blind-swordsmen-are-like-football-teams-with-ten-men/comment-page-1#comment-577557 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:48 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13055#comment-577557 I’d completely forgotten that scene in Dodgeball, but as he was in a film, his logic was flawless.

Yes, Love and Honour is the third film after Twilight Samurai, which is considerably superior to it. Whilst not necessarily meaning old-fashioned as an insult, there really isn’t that much to Love And Honour except the simple pleasure of seeing a pretty basic story told well. But it does belabour many of its points and offers very little new in the way of surprises. It also has a coda which goes on for ever which everyone in the cinema had guessed and was battered into submission by.

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By: Matthew https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2009/01/blind-swordsmen-are-like-football-teams-with-ten-men/comment-page-1#comment-577524 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:03:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13055#comment-577524 The ultimate blind swordsman scene is surely Dodgeball, where as far as I can recall Vince Vaughn blindfolds himself for the crucial final play *for no other reason* than the fact that million-to-one chances pay out nine times out of ten.

I quite liked “The Twilight Samurai” which I take it is another segment of the trilogy. (Is there an increasing-levels-of-darkness motif going on?) Unfortunately I watched that in the same week as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which was similar but ultimately I thought a considerably greater movie, so it suffered by comparison. You describe Love & Honour as “sedate and old fashioned”, so I’m anticipating more of the same really, very tasteful stuff likely to sweep the Japanese Oscars-equivalent, but not likely to change anyone’s life?

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By: Martin Skidmore https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2009/01/blind-swordsmen-are-like-football-teams-with-ten-men/comment-page-1#comment-577475 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:40:49 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13055#comment-577475 Yes, that Gullit quote is a great one – clearly a team with no players at all would be unstoppable.

You did well to remember that little piece – I just reread it and I barely remember it.

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