Rating: 
Summary: measure of intelligence
Review: For those who are writing bad reviews, there are two conclusions:1) You saw the movie after hearing a lot of hype. NO MOVIE ever lives up to hype...its unfortunate, but true. People lose the point of the movie, because they have set up great expectations. 2) You are dumb, you'll always be dumb, you don't realize it, and you'll never understand movies like this. The movie is not a slapstick comedy. The movie is about feeling lonely, isolated, a fish out of water, and coming to grips with life's odd and quiet moments. I laughed at one reviewer who said "Why don't they just go out and shop." Not all of us see life as one big purchase. For those who said "it's too slow", yes it is: that's the point. And Bill Murray, who is a comic genius, was able to tame his wackiness and make it about a real person, not Bill Murray. Can't find the funny moments (said one reviewer): try the japanese direction scene, the lick my stocking scene, and the japanese talk show...its not Kids in the Hall comedy, its slice-of-life comedy. Morons. Go back to Jerry Bruckheimer films...don't bother the rest of us with your stupidity.
Rating: 
Summary: Complete farse
Review: This movie did bad in the theaters and is a horrible movie. Don't believe the farse and lies about how good this movie is. When you have friends in high places, you can sell a can of worms to the ignorant. don't be and ignorant follower, DON'T WASTE GOOD MONEY ON THIS SECOND RATE FILM.
Rating:
Summary: No Redeeming Qualities
Review: I was given this movie as a birthday gift and was very excited to watch it. From the award hype plus the description of the film, it seemed like it might be one of those movies which goes beyond the screen and actually touches the audience. It doesn't. Instead, it was one of those movies that was so bad that you feel as if you have lost that 1 hr and 43 minutes of your life. How bad is it? The acting was unmoving and stiff - though I can't really blame the actors, as the script offers nothing at all to work with. Very limited dialogue combined with poorly developed, unsympathetic characters and a frustrating lack of coherent direction makes this movie drag unlike any other film I have ever experienced. I kept fighting the urge to shut it off, thinking that at some point SOMETHING vaguely interesting or entertaining would happen, but it continued to drag on and on, aimlessly, mindlessly... Then, mercifully, it ended. My wife picked up the DVD and threw it in the trash without a word to me about it. This is ABSOLUTELY an instance of Hollywood hyping a movie and the general public flocking to it and pretending to like it because they think it is supposed to be good. PLEASE save yourself the disappointment and don't waste your time.
Rating:
Summary: BORING BORING BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Let me first say I love great cinema, Peter Greenaway makes brilliant though slow moving cinematic ballets. Kieslowski's films are also rather slow moving, as are most European cinema YET they usually have something to say. THAT SAID, THIS FILM IS A PILE OF DUNG! Horrible, boring, no script at all, pointless, total purposeless, unfunny, uninteresting DUNG! As if Sophia's first film wasn't boring enough, she took out Kirsten Dunst and a handfull of teenage beauties and replaced them with Bill Murray (whom I usually love) and the fat lipped, creaky voiced, bare bummed, Johannson. HORRIBLE FILM, 2 hours of my life wasted never to return.
Rating:
Summary: Regarding Ballot stuffing comment
Review: To the individual who wrote regarding the obvious "ballot stuffing" 5 star reviews by a single person here, I would ordinary think it is a joke, but the person (from Seattle) has written a pretty organized and diverse opinion for each post. This leads me to believe that maybe it is not just some fanatic writing these but maybe someone interested in making sure this film does well on amazon..I wonder who that can be? One word of advice..if you are going to take the time to write numerous reviews, try at least changing your location once in a while (watch how we will now get a bunch of 5 star reviews from other locations lol) By the way, I found the film very boring and encourage people to rent it before buying since you are very likely to be dissapointed..unless of course, if you watch movies to be depressed and bored.
Rating:
Summary: ballot stuffing
Review: very interesting to see the "fellow" from seattle writing a dozen 5 star reviews. Aside from seriously lacking a life, it is probably similiar to the ballot stuffing that got this garbage an Oscar nomination. Scary how a few fanatics can manipulate the process.
Rating: 
Summary: Slice of Life!
Review: He is famous, he is fawned on by well-paying Japanese clients, but he is frustrated in his professional life (wanting to be a stage actor) and he has problems at home. What does he need to find a more meaningful existence, for more self-fulfillment. She has made what seems to be a bad marriage, with a man whose entry to the world means passing through mindless no-talent personalities, and denegrating his wife . . . what does she need for self-fullfillment. The choice of Japan with fake dinosaurs flashing on the screen, with ersatz Western parties and Western style clubs and Western style everything else gives us a picture of incinserity that parallels the lives of the two main characters. This movie portrays a slice of life, that is perhaps more genuine than so many other attempts. These two don't jump into bed with each other, no overt voiolence . . just an almost overbearing sadness where one would expect something a bit more uplifting . . . and it can happen to people of any age.
Rating:
Summary: Gentle, languid story of loneliness and unrequited love
Review: Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a faded American action-movie hero visiting Tokyo -- courtesy of a $2 million dollar check -- to film commercials for Suntori liquors. Spending a week camped out in a luxury hotel he soon meets 25 year-old, American Charlotte (played beautifully by Scarlett Johansson). Her photog husband is off gallivanting around the country on various shoots. These two lonely Americans, often unable to sleep or shake off the very 'foreigness' of Japan, soon find interesting company in each other. She is bright, a Yale philosophy graduate, who is struggling with her role in life. He is -- at heart -- a washed-up actor, uncomfortable in his long-standing marriage. Together they encounter more of Japan than either would have alone. The mysterious ending is wonderful... and open to many interpretations. Coppola has done a masterful job both telling a story and weaving beautiful cinematography into a cohesive whole. Photographed languidly, at a pace that captures a week of both characters' lives, you will revisit the story repeatedly in your mind. And that's the mark of an exceptional screenplay.
Rating:
Summary: nice film
Review: nice film. i guess the simplicity is what attracts people
to it. it does not have any type of violence or grotesque scenes
at all. it is just about two americans being alone, and about finding love, and of where they want to go with their lives. any one who has seen this film on the big screen
can tell you that the music score is pretty good. but any way sofia coppola is a genius. she came out on the jay leno show and she said that bill murray was not even interested in the project at first, but she kept with it, & insisted that he take the part, and good thing he did in the end. scarlett johansson is another great actor, she simply shines on here. be sure to check out girl with a pearl earring; nice film too. but any way back to "LIT" simply recommended. it be nice if sofia coppola won best director at this years academy awards.
Rating: 
Summary: A Very Highly Overrated Movie!!
Review: I recently saw "Lost In Translation" and found the movie to be rather boring to say the least. Bill Murray, who plays an over-the-hill actor, apparently is going thru a midlife crisis and travels to Tokyo, Japan to do some vodka commercials. While there he becomes bored staying in his hotel and happens to begin a friendship with a young lady (Scarlett Johannson) who is also bored in her hotel room. Her husband is a photographer and he leaves her everyday to be left alone. Granted the two are lonely, but in a huge city like Tokyo? I'd be busy shopping than anything else (certainly my wife would), I doubt anyone could be bored living in a city so full of excitement. Murray's acting is just so so, I'm used to seeing him in funny films, and Johannson's acting skills are, well limited. The dialog in "Lost In Translation" is terrible. Quite frankly I've read some of the five star reviews for this film and I just can't see what was so great about the film. I'm giving the film a two star review for it's shots of Japan.
| 
