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Summary: here's the thing
Review: in response to the review below about how it's "just a movie" and actors aren't paid to be real.I don't really fall in line with the "imagine a perfect ending" idea, my take with the abrupt ending is that, life keeps on going. Their stories aren't over. It wouldn't be real (yes, i'm saying "real" *gasp* movies? real? what?) if there was some slam-bang finale because that's not what life is about. You said that movies are about compelling images and brilliant characters. Movies, Theatre, Music, everything is about life. This movies is about life. And sometimes life is boring. Sometimes people are lackluster and boring. The movie's not about being openly brilliant and spectacular. It's about the subleties. As for actors being real. Acting...no matter what character you portray, you'll always be showing some facet of yourself. It's actually pretty hard to be "real", which no...gloss and performance. Some people don't realize it. On the topic of these actors being real, I don't think Scarlett J. did a fantastic job of it. She was good, but Bill Murray was better. Art's about life. Sometimes it's surreal, sometimes it's fantastic and wild, but it's still about life. This movie is about life at a standstill.
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Summary: Review.
Review: I watched about 45 minutes into 'Lost in Translation'. The love story between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson was about to begin and unfold. At this time, I realized I had better things to do with my time.
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Summary: Watch it once.... DON"T buy it........
Review: I really think the only reason this movie went too far is because the director is Francis Ford Coppola's daughter.
You can imagine this movie directed for some stranger and you will see nobody would say is a good movie. I really think is a terrible terrible movie and I never thought a movie so bad could even be consider as ANY Oscar winner.
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Summary: Dull, Pretentious
Review: This stuff for Oscar? Maybe with the Marketing scale exist only in America. B.t.w. Wish I had a dad like that. Dull conversation lack of intelligence, cliché after cliché, superficial mockery of Japanese, cheap feelings worthy of no sympathy... next time if the director wants to explore some "moment", or "self mental state", or "deep"/"subtle"/"sensitive"/whatever human loneliness, please go directly with a reality TV so the audience can at least know what they'll get. For some viewers who give it 4 or 5 stars, you are entitled to your opinion. However, please stop patronize by saying "...oh, it's not for everyone, some people don't understand the movie, they don't get it..." Please bear in mind that there are many viewers who watched hundreds (if not thousands) of movies including tons of foreign movies, arty movies, there are many people who visited Japan many times, many who live in different foreign countries for years, (me for one), therefore people can tell between crap and gem. Plus what are we supposed to get from a movie if we just want to be entertained, which is the ultimate purpose of movie. We like it or dislike it naturally.
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Summary: More than this...
Review: Lost in Translation is a beautiful movie that will probably go over many peoples heads. No surprise in a society that is hooked of American Idol, anti-depressants, and viagra all at the same time. There are so many things in the film that appeal to me, I do not know where to start. Elements of realism stand out to me, in addition to a story line that has taste and class. Like most stories involving love, a man and woman are together for a short period of time and share a momentary connection that effects their lives forever. The exotic country of Japan plays so well into the film, and in my opinion is what really allows the movie to be so sucessful. Great acting, a unique plot, a soundtrack worth paying money for, and so much more.
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Summary: Watch it, mister!
Review: I have no technical or artistic explanation for why I loved this film. I just know that as a whole it completely mesmerized me and left me feeling somehow lucky to have seen it. I saw it a month ago, bought the soundtrack because it seems perfect for the visuality of the movie; I feel kind of haunted in a way because I can't get over the fact that I have to see it again. The list of movies that have affected me in that way is very short. If you can't sit still and absorb things don't bother with this, it wasn't made for you.
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Summary: Understated and introspective
Review: First of all, this is certainly not a movie for everyone. It is dreamlike, hypnotic, atmospheric and quiet and makes no pretense to being some great statement or telling some great parable. It is impressionistic, and meant to be something you slide in to, not something that beats you over the head. That being said, I do also feel like some people were disappointed in it because they expected either: 1. A "Bill Murray" movie (i.e. Groundhog Day, Scrooged)
2. A "Romantic Comedy" (i.e. most Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts movies) It is neither. Looking back on the movie, I think the most telling sign of where it was going was the inclusion of many Kevin Shields/My Bloody Valentine tracks during the film. MBV (a group that people also loved or hated) worked on the idea that all of the instruments, voices included, were equally important and shouldn't necessarily stand out in the mix. This seems to be the idea behind Lost In Translation, where the setting, the actors, the characters, and the plot are all equally important (or unimportant) and not meant to take precedence. What you're left with, if you connect with it, is a memory of a couple specific moments (notably the karaoke scene and the crazy Japanese talk show, which are two true "set pieces" of any length), and more a mood that "Lost" has set and a chance to wonder what these people actually found, because it's clear they never figured that out completely. It is romantic, but not a cut-and-dry romance like most formualic "romantic" movies. It's not a perfect movie (it does have even slower spots in an already slow film), and I might have liked to have a commentary track, although the bonus interview shows Sofia Coppola to be less than magnetic and interesting. Not for everyone, but for those interested, a great rainy-day film, or one to watch in a quiet, introspective mood.
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Summary: Some bitter reviewers here
Review: If I were you I'd just go watch the movie - the reviews here are so disparate that unless you have a highly-advances statistical analysis deegree you aren't going to be able to get much out of them. The reviews seem to be broken down into two large chunks: 1. People who loved the movie.
2. People who didn't understand the movie. Sadly, the second group feels like their inability to get what the movie about means the movie wasn't good. Instead of saying "I didn't like it" or "I didn't get it" they say the film sucks, the actors suck, the music sucks... personally I suspect they are a somewhat bitter about paying to see a film that was over their heads. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to *me*. Just go see the movie and make up your own mind. Or hey, here's an even better idea: go see the movie and *don't* make up your mind about the film, just see it and go about your life and a week or two later sort of casually peek around the inside of your head and see how well the film fit in with everything else that is in there. Not a good fit? No shame there. But if the fit between the movie and any specific head is poor, the blame might just as well lie with the head in question and not with the film. Things just work out that way sometimes. Take me, for instance: I play guitar. I admire people who play the guitar well, regardless of the type of music they play, with one exception: I can't stand American country music, not for a second. Now I know that there are many talented country musicians, and I've seen bluegrass players who must have cut deals with the devil to play so well, but when it comes right down to it the music doesn't resonate with me. Note that I didn't say "the music sucks". It doesn't suck - some of it is damned impressive... I just don't like it because it doesn't fit into my head. Nevertheless I am certainly not going to go write bad reviews of every country song I hear, because that's not disseminating helpful information, it's just spreading ignorance, something you'd think some of these people would be less eager to advertise about themselves. Go see the film. Think for yourselves.
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Summary: Serene,Subtle,Sensitive!!
Review: Sofia Coppola's directorial venture which made her win an Oscar(2004) for Original Screenplay is a beautiful movie where Bob Harris (Bill Murray) an american actor going thru mid-life crisis, away from his family comes to Tokyo for a television commercial shoot ; accidentally meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) a fresh Yale graduate in Psychology who has a very busy photographer husband. Both of them going thru the same spell of loneliness & helplessness find comfort in each other's company that develops in an unlikely bond. Two Americans stint with tokyo lifestyle is very amusing to watch.For those who are not familiar with Tokyo lifestyle like me , here is a good chance to go through Tokyo parties, karaoke bars, nightlife, etc.. The movie is a collection of very fine moments between the two, but the finest moment comes at the end when Murray is leaving Tokyo,both realize that there is no way they could ever maintain a relationship with each other, his final statement to her is whispered into her ear and we cannot know what it was he said. Everything in the movie is handled so elegantly and tenderly! If this one is 'to be found' in your collection, it would be as apt as its tag line 'Everyone wants to be found'.
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Summary: Ugh,....
Review: pretentious garbage. I would rather watch a root canal performed on a baby, and I love kids.
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