Lost In Translation

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 7:35pm

Never before has a movie ever made me want to go to one location more.

Lost in Translation is a great great great great movie. I heart it bunches.

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 7:38pm

I love it. It is beautifully made and acted.

[broadway86]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:02pm

MarkCohen-

My sentiments exactly.

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:25pm

One of my all time favorite movies. Just incredible.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:32pm

I thought it was the most boring think I have ever seen...and yet everyone seems to love it. I wish i knew wha tI was missing from it!

[mabel]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:33pm

I really liked LiT too. I think of the bevy of "Scarlett deserved to be nominated" roles the past couple of years (ok, bevy was probably a bit much...it's only like 3, right?) this was definitely the most deserving. Pity she didn't snag a supporting nomination. Bill Murray is also a gem here. He's steadily becoming one of my favorite actors of late. Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Life Aquatic, Broken Flowers, and going back a few years to Groundhog Day...gotta love Bill!

[fflagg]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:30pm

Bo-o-o-o-o-o-ring.

Only memorable for Scarlett who would be ideal for PROMISES, PROMISES with Topher Grace.

[JustChillin8908]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:42pm

My entire family watched it without me and said it was so boring that they returned it before I got to see it.

I have no interest in EVER seeing this movie.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:49pm

It is now one of my favorite all time films.

[LionessInWinter]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:35am

My favorite film of that year. Bill Murray should've had that Oscar. Oddly, I don't remember who won. Maybe that was Denzel's year.
Updated On: 4/3/06 at 12:35 AM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:39am

No, Lioness, it was Sean Penn who took home the Oscar for MYSTIC RIVER. That was back in 2004. Denzel actually won two years before that.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:17am

I didn't like it the first time I saw it - I think I was expecting totally different.

After re-viewing it nearly a year later, I fell in love with it, and now it's one of my favorite movies. It's just perfect.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:35am

It was interesting and boring at the same time. I say this is the perfect film to watch with friends, because you need to have someone to talk to.
I enjoyed it a lot, but it was just a little too slow-moving for my liking.

[peach]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:06am

I have to hop on the boring bandwagon with this one. The acting was wonderful, the story is great, and I know a lot of people love this movie (my friends and family included).

After all the priase this move received, I expected to like it more, but I just didn't. As paradox_error says, it's interesting and boring at the same time. Not a bad movie by any means, but not one of the best for me either.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:09am

Eh. It's just a gimmick. You can tell Coppola worked backwards from the last scene, admittedly a GREAT last scene.

It's like she came up with that and then had to figure out how to work a movie around it.

It is ALWAYS amusing to watch Cruel_Sandwich play catch up on movie topics.

"Say, it is MY opinion that this Citizen Kane movie is an undervalued gem!"

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:41am

Loved it.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:02am

I loved this movie, too. It was much more of a character study than a "story", so that's why people may have been bored. It's more about atmosphere and character than plot.

However, I have to disagree with the original poster. This film actually made me want to NEVER visit Japan.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:20am

It's funny how differently we perceive things. I wasn't bored for an instant. I was completely transported into the atomosphere of the film. I wouldn't have wanted anyone near me to break the mood by speaking to me.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 12:57am

I totally agree, Jane...

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:34am

I can definitely see how there are lots of people who would think this movie is boring. I find this movie incredibly appealing, though, and comforting. It seems like such a delightful slice of life for the audience to watch. I love it.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:45am

It's a true "feel-good movie", for me at least.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:15pm

i KNOW that if I actually heard what he said to her @ the end, it couldn't measure up to the mystery of wondering but I still wish I knew...

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:20pm

Haven't seen it. Where's it based again, Tokyo?

[Jon]

Posted: 8/11/06 at 8:15pm

In my opinion, the opening shot alone - the long, lingering shot of Scarlett's ass in translucent panties - makes the movie a masterpiece.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:45pm

Starring Bill Murray and some woman you'll never hear from again. A tiresome useless movie about a pair of bored boring people who wander around in a hotel for a while. The most appallingly over-rated movie since whatever beat any Lord Of The Rings movie for Best Picture, Lost In Translation is all artful posing and would-be emotion-filled non-scenes that lead ever-so-artfully exactly nowhere, because you know, it's more artistic if a movie just wanders around for about two hours without anything happening, right? right? Yeah, man. If you want to see a good movie about two people getting to know each other in foreign cities, watch Richard Linklater's brilliant Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, funny and moving films of great wit and intelligence where one is actually moved to give a toss about what is going on, unlike Ms. Coppola's tedious perfume commercial posing as a movie.

Updated On: 8/12/06 at 08:45 PM