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	[quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="Love, BDR"]Well, you're wrong, so you're negated. The Hunted is great because it's two movies at war! A cool ninjas versus samurai movie (in which there is a fabulous bullet train fight scene) versus a cheesy Christopher Lambert thriller (in which we briefly see Joan Chen's nipples)! The samurai movie almost wins! It's good dumb fun. If I mentioned Yojimbo at all, it was while referencing the many overt and <FONT SIZE="4">covert</FONT> samurai-movie homages, which include locations, choreography, and even the movies and TV shows playing in the background. So you're basically wrong about everything. What a girl![/quote] There's a great quote right at the beginning of Jabootu.com's review of <A HREF="http://www.jabootu.com/boxinghelena.htm" TARGET="new">Boxing Helena</A>: [quote]In a court of law, you don't have to offer conclusive proof that your client didn't kill all of Fort Worth, Dallas. You just have to throw it into doubt. If a semi-decent possibility exists that your client might not have killed everyone in Fort Worth, the jury has to say "Not Guilty." Hence, the unofficial lawyer motto, "If you can't convince them, confuse them." If the jury just isn't sure of anything, they can't return a conviction. Good filmmakers make a point of being convincing enough without going overboard. Bad filmmakers, particularly the pseudo-arty "avante garde" ones, can't make a convincing film, so they try hard for confusing. That way, there will always be a percentage of Intellectual Snobs who defend the movie, and say that the film-going public just "doesn't get it."[/quote] I'd expand that to inlcude bad filmmakers who make references to films and TV shows of the past. That way, if their terrible protagonist borrows some nuance from a character in a bad 70s action show, there will always be a percentage of Intellectual Snobs who defend the movie, and say, "Ah-HA! I watched that bad show when I was a kid and there was nothing better on! I caught that reference and you didn't! The minor feeling of superiority this movie has granted me makes it fucking fantastic!" I'm a little lost as to where the great samurai vs. ninjas movie was in the flick. Both the Samurai and the Ninjas were remarkably stupid and incompetent assholes. The bullet-train action scene was the highlight of the film, but that's not really saying much. I especially like how it starts off by flashing a quote from the Hagakure about how the most important part of being a Samurai is knowing you will die DUN DUN DUN!!! But in the end the asshole samurai dies, not because of any honor thing, but because he's a gullible dumbass. I ended up rooting for the ninja leader because its so obvious the actor playing him hates the part that you can cut the sarcasm when he says lines like "How much blood must I bathe in before I am clean?" with a knife.[/quote]