Page 70 response: Examining writing

So my wifi card died recently, and the replacement finally showed up today (2/5/15). I just got it installed, and came to update this ASAP.

Anyways. Examining a small piece of writing I made, it's about the movie The Last Samurai. I had recently watched it, and wanted to tell a few friends about it, so I posted it on a facebook group. My intention was to simply give a small review based on it, mostly talking about how insanely mediocre the movie was.

It's a cool movie. For some reason Maverick from Top Gun travels back to 1870, and is a drunk war vet traveling around telling war stories for a quick buck or two. Something happens, and he somehow ends up bumming around some small village in rural Japan. He starts integrating with the society there, and starts getting trained by the creepy old pirate dude in Singapore from Pirates of the Caribbean. He turns out to be a natural, and is made an honorable Samurai. Later, something else happens, and the Emperor of Japan decides to westernize his country, bringing in the Colonel Maverick didn't quite get along with in his stint in the army. His purpose was to be a military advisor. The dude who trained Maverick (who also turns out to be the leader of the Samurai order) decides that there's no way to peacefully solve the issue of  the Westernization of Japan rendering the samurai order obsolete. Then more dumb political things happen, and then the cool part starts. A force of conscripts and peasants shows up at their doorstep, and they get rolled by a squad of Samurai. That's when the general of the Imperial army decides these samurai are a huge threat, and responds by marching on them with an absolutely massive army. The samurai respond with a not-much-larger force than before. They start outsmarting the Imperial army, drawing out their squads one by one and overwhelming them. Until the general decides to pull out a bunch gatling guns. The Samurai get wiped, and Maverick helps his buddy commit Hara-Kiri, and then the Imperial Army left alive decides to kneel and pay respects to the last remaining Samurai, Maverick. Later he rolls up to the emperor and gives him his sword as a gift or something, and the Emperor goes on a monologue about retaining Japanese culture in the midst of the modernization.  

Not a horrible movie, but there's not much memorable about it in terms of events or characters. Definitely worth watching for the final few scenes.