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Summary: Good movie that wasn't entertaining.
Review: This movie is well acted, well scripted, well...it's just a well done movie. It portrays life as it actually is, without the glamour of hollywood. They manage to capture the beauty of the seemingly insignificant relationships that you have throughout your life. How a momentary sharing between strangers can change your outlook on life. In short, this movie is about life. The problem with that, is that we get to deal with life every day. I watch a movie to be entertained, to be swept elsewhere; not to be carried back into my parents house. I am glad that I viewed the movie, but will never see it again. :o)
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Summary: Way better getting Lost 2nd or 3rd time around
Review: My first view of the movie had me just a tad disappointed it wasnt better(considering all the buzz). Dont get me wrong it overall is a very good movie and much better after the 2nd or 3rd viewing. If I had seen this movie pre buzz I would have thought it to be one of the best and original movies I had ever seen. I just went into theatre expecting to see a more than oscar worthy movie at the very least. I still bought the DVD anyway because I love to go back and see certain parts of the movie that will always be "classic" like Bill Murrays karaoke performance and the scene where he goes on that Japanese talk show......totally hilarious!
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Summary: To Be Bored in Japan.
Review: Bill Murray is Bob Harris, a middle-aged has-been actor whose marriage is on thin ice but has been given two million dollars to shoot whiskey commercials in Japan. Scarlett Johansson is Ivy league-educated Charlotte, who's tagging along with her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi) and has too much free time on her hands. Both Bob and Charlotte are bored out of their skulls, unfulfilled, and cross paths in downtown Tokyo. This could have been the premise for a great romance, expect that director Sophia Coppola gives little reason to care about either the characters or their predicaments. Not to mention that this movie drags and drags with not much in the way of a plot. But "Lost in Translation" isn't a total bust. Murray and Johansson do the best they can with the material they have to work with, and cinematographer Lance Acord deserves props for filming the city of Tokyo so beautifully. And while this film does have its share of laughs (most of which, it must be said, are at the expense of the Japanese, who are made to look like fools), you can't help but notice that "Lost in Translation" is an average movie that's pretty empty at its core. It's not a disaster, but it's not exactly deserving of its praise.
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Summary: Lost in a dreamy haze (of Tokyo)
Review: For a good time, make it Lost in Translation time. This movie is quite good, and is most of all, different from all of the other movies that have come out this year.
Writing the plot would be useless, as you can interpret it any way you want to. Sofia Coppola is obviously more gifted in directing than she is in acting, (see GODFATHER 3 bleacch.) and won the oscar for best original screenplay.
I sincerely liked this movie and the characters in it, you can just watch this movie and fall asleep with your eyes open, transfixed on the tube.
The bonus features really could have been a little more extensive, but they were okay, including interviews between Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola, amongst others.
If you want to see the world from a different perspective for 120 minutes, rent or buy Lost in Translation, you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: A film that deserves every single word of its praise
Review: "Lost in Translation" is a film I saw and fell in absolute love with. Every frame, every movement, every feeling it created in the busy, vibrant setting kept my eyes, and my heart, glued to the screen.
Indeed, "Lost in Translation" is a movie that succeeds by creating moods. In fact, I think that is why many who do not appreciate this movie fail to have enjoyed it: It's not so much about what is happening or where the story is going, but about the tensions and the aura that the film creates between its main characters' lives and how they develop that in the - to Americans, at least - foreign world of Japan. Bill Murray and Scarlet J. do a phenomenal job of creating subtlety. Yes the movie is slow places, and yes it does not seem to be going anywhere easily identifiable. But that is the magic of it! The beauty in the story comes from the fact that Bill and Scarlet go off on a little journey that is totally separating them from the schedules, boundaries and relationships of the realities they live in. I adored the gentleness with which the two leads interacted and how sporadically free some scenes were to just explore their own destinations. This is a movie that builds very slowly to a soft anticlimax. It doesn't matter what Murray whispers into Scarlet's ear after a lovingly painful embrace near the film's end. What matters is that for a little while they escaped together, and that for a little while, they left behind everything of consequence in their lives. What makes some films beautiful are their plots. What makes others beautiful are their cinematography. This is a film that is made beautiful by its ambience; a movie made complete by its mood. It's a film that urges you to get inside the characters, and feel what they are feeling rather than simply watching what is happening on screen and waiting for it to be dramatic or funny. Much like the recent (and brilliant, in another way) "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," some movies are meant to be appreciated on a level different from others.
Enjoying "Lost in Translation" is not a matter of intelligence or attention span: It's a matter of losing yourself in a feeling, and leaving your expectations at the door.
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Summary: IT'S LOST ALL RIGHT!
Review: This film was just plan awful. It meandered and wondered through itself to the end. The final peice in which Murry murrmers into his co-star's ear most likely sounded like this. "How did I get myself into this mess?" And I'm not even going to talk about the Oscars. Ehh-shhh! Don't waste your money on this. Rent it if you must, but find something, anything else.
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Summary: Moves at a snail pace
Review: This movie moves at a snail pace but it still has its funny moments. Definitely a rent first movie..unless you are a diehard Bill Murray fan, of course.
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Summary: Movie out on a limb, love it or hate it..
Review: This movie is quite good. I love the revelation of Tokyo which I'm guessing is a first for most westerners. The gamer subculture glimpsed in the arcade parlor is amazing. As others have noted though, the dvd begins with a MOST annoying preview that will only let you fast forward (no disk skip or menu!). When I buy a DVD I want to be able to control every aspect of it and when a manufacturer impinges on the control of my own property it makes me annoyed and angry. Is that the emotion Universal expected from buyers by doing this? Oh and the case has no insert but it does have weird clasps which are sure to break off with repeated use. It's better than a cardboard case at least.
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Summary: Slower than slow
Review: I have watched lots of movies in my 30+ years. Many of my favorites are dramas that my friends say are "slow". When I heard this movie might be a bit slow, I still didn't hesitate to rent it. What a mistake! This movie never got going. It was one slow scene after another. There was little dialogue, little humor, and little of anything to be honest. Also, the movie was easy to get "lost" in. The Quiz show scene and many others were so brief it left one puzzled why they were even included. The acting was okay, but it gave Bill Murray little to do with such a dull script. If you are looking for good dramas I'd recommend Sea Buscuit, Radio, or nearly anything else in the video store.
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Summary: The most boring movie I saw this year...
Review: ...was without a doubt "Matrix Reloaded" and particularly the fight with the white haired guys which went on FOREVER and got absolutely nowhere. I really felt I'd wasted that two hours of my life (and I was dumb enough to waste even more on "Matrix Revolution" just in case they could pull it all together - they didn't.) I point this out because some seem to think that superficial speed counts for more than believable content or characters drawn with any degree of emotion or intelligence. As for "Lost in Translation" Slow? Perhaps. Because it needs to be. I'd say evenly paced. Plenty of plot for those with the brain to see it. Wonderful performances. Great cinematography. Assured writing and directing from Sofia Coppola, who knows exactly what the story needs to be told well.
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