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Summary: Da Best
Review: This movie is da best of the best. And i will admit that there were some boring parts. But this movie is still the best.
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Summary: Rocks
Review: This movie absolutely rocks. My rating for this movie is 10.0.
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Summary: Not boring
Review: This movie is not bad. And when i watched the movie i didn't get bored or felt sleepy.
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Summary: cool movie
Review: This movie is very good. The environments are also hot.
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Summary: not that bad
Review: This movie ain't as bad as you people say. And I find scarlett johansson to be hot.
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Summary: Lost in Translation is definately a lost cause!
Review: This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I heard a lot of good things about the movie and was very anxious to see it. I rented this movie with high expectations and was sorely disappointed. There was no point to the story as far as I could see. The reviews said this movie was hilarious; I sat through this movie for an hour and didn't find anything funny. It just jumps from one scene to the next with no purpose, this makes for a very boring movie. Although that is not to say that no one will like this movie, as the saying goes "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". However, I would not recommend this movie at all.
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Summary: A surprisingly great movie!
Review: Alright, I don't expect anyone to care about this review that will quickly be lost in the mass of other reviews, but I have nothing better to do so...After hearing a little bit about Lost in Translation, I was all set up to dislike it. What a great surprise it was to find out that this movie is amazing, defenitely one of the best movies of all time. The way I see it, there are two kinds of movies: movies that have cheap thrills to appeal to the masses (American Pie, XxX), and movies that actually have atmosphere and substance that really convey emotion (Saving Private Ryan, Aliens, and plenty of 'foriegn' movies). Lost in Translation falls into the second category. This movie isn't for the masses. It doesn't have sex related comedy, or amazing special effects. It DOES have a unnecessarily long scenes that seem pointless at first. Then you start to understand that if it was different, the movie would lose its sense of emotion and surreal atmosphere. So what is it about? It's about two people who find each other in a fancy hotel in Tokyo. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) an Charlotte (Scarlet Johannson) both feel as if their lives arent fulfilling any more. They end up bored in Tokyo, then find each other, then fall in love (in more of a 'soul mate' kind of way then a sexual way). Why doesn't Lost in Translation appeal to so many people (most of them living in the US I might add)? This movie uses imagery more then words. It's the kind of movie that gets better with repeated viewings, because there is so much to absorb. Things must be discovered, instead of spoon-fed to the viewer. There is plenty of humor here, but it's 'classy humor' so to speak. The kind that must be thought about, instead of relying on outrageous statements or events. My last point - this movie does NOT portray racist views. It portrays the quirks of a culture that many of us aren't acquainted with. I'm sure many Japanese have stereotypes about other places as well...it's just the way things are. To call it racism is blowing this subject a bit out of proportion. Soo, while this DvD could have been done better, the movie is defenitely worth owning...if you are a patient person.
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Summary: Great film, Good DVD, annoying ads
Review: I loved this film in the theaters and was looking forward to getting the DVD... and the DVD's great except one thing, the ads at the beginning. Focus Features/Universal decided to not allow viewers to skip past the previews and forces you to either sit through several long ads or fast-forward through them. DVD's were created so you don't have to fast-forward through stuff anymore! One might as well buy the VHS copy. I hope the user-unfriendliness is removed in future printings of this DVD.
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Summary: Confusing
Review: Here's what puzzles me. As a film marketer, I know that after the first week what sells a movie is word of mouth. "Lost in Translation" has played in some towns here and abroad for weeks, in some cases months. I wish I'd been involved in pushing it. Here's the fact: if a movie has a lot of hype and then doesn't live up to it the marketing pattern is that it drops off very fast after the first few days as everyone tells their friends it sucks. That's why we open some expensive movies we have doubts about (Stargate for example) in as many theaters as possible (sometimes without even letting critics see them first). Then a lot of people will have seen them by the time everyone gets the bad news. You can't keep the momentum on a bad movie going. It is just impossible. In the end, friend telling friend is what sells it. Or what kills it. But then I look at the reviews here and see so much supposedly bad "word of mouth". I have to tell you as a marketer that it must be far outweighed by the good. It's far from representative. The ongoing marketing success proves it. If everyone told their friends "Lost in Translation" was bad it would have died in a few weeks, no matter how many times its director and stars appeared on "Good Morning America". Why am I telling you this? Because this is a great movie. Small, sensitive, funny, romantic in an adult way. I don't know anyone among my friends who isn't very enthusiastic about it. It's easy to get sick of my job. I know a lot of what I have to sell is awful. The rare movie likes this makes it easy to think it's worthwhile after all. Believe it or not, not all of us in the industry are happy with FX heavy trash.
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Summary: Stands Out as a Treasure
Review: I'm not going to fall into the trap of reviewing the reviews here, some of which are utterly mindless. I've watched at least two movies a week for the past thirty years, not counting reruns on TV. That's a lot of movies, well over 3,000, but I still love them even though we do go through periods when everything that comes to the movie-house is garbage. Last year was a good year. One of the best in the past decade. And "Lost in Translation" was one of the best movies. (I also thought "Big Fish" was brilliant and Tim Burton's best movie so far.) Watching so many movies I can't tell you how sick I get of coming out of the theater knowing that I've just been treated like a lobotomized dummy by film makers who think all movie goers are thirteen year old boys with too many hormones who like to see things blow up. Sophia Coppola, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson treated me like an adult with enough brain to care about real people making a connection in a strange context. I can hardly praise this movie enough. The low budget does not show, it just serves to make you focus on human details. But then it is always cheaper to make a film about people than about special effects. I'm bored with movies without characters. I love this one because it had characters and I could care about them. And to those who didn't find it funny, you probably wouldn't like Buster Keaton either. Murray's humor is so deadpan it had me cracking up. Not all humor has to be telegraphed. An unforgettable trip to Tokyo in the company of two people who you really hope will find a little happiness in this world.
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