  I just saw The Last Samurai. It was a lot better than I expected... and I didn't expect it to be bad. It was very similar to Glory in a lot of ways, which makes sense since they were both directed by the same guy.
It also had the whole tradition vs. modernization angle going on. But now that I look it up on IMDB I see that it was written, both story and screenplay, by John Logan, who wrote Star Trek Nemesis. If he can write like he did for Samurai, what the hell went wrong on Nemesis? That movie was a goddamn train wreck. So in closing, The Last Samurai = good. And Jamie owes me $7.50. 
