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Summary: A summer camp almost-romance for adults
Review: Warning: spoilers in this review!This film's lead characters are adrift in a world so removed from their understanding and immediate concern that it seems almost imaginary. With no obligations to attend to, they're suspended outside of time as well. They meet, there's attraction, they hesitate to act on it, and for most of the movie they exist in a private world made almost solely of that tension. Many of these reviews are spot-on in describing the whole experience (both for the characters and the audience) as dreamlike. When the characters have to return to their lives at the end, you'd expect a catharsis of some kind, a revelation bringing a new level of understanding as they're waken from their dream. Instead, Coppola gives the biggest cop-out, non-ending I've seen in years. The "speech the audience can't hear" isn't poignant -- it shows that director Coppola doesn't understand the characters she's created and doesn't have a clue what they actually would do in that situation. It woke me, the audience, from the dream I was in -- and like many dreams and summer camp romances, it all seems far less deep, meaningful or important afterwards. When Coppola leaves the audience to fill in whatever ending they want, that's not sublime or profound. It's the catchy jingle of a radio tune, where the lyrics give you the barest of frameworks so that you can fill the rest in from your own experiences and desires. That can be entertaining, and it can mean a lot to you personally. But that doesn't make it Great Art, and it doesn't make me shallow, unintelligent or insensitive for prefering movies with more substance and insight.
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Summary: snore
Review: I couldn't finish watching this movie because I found it to be such a bore.
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Summary: its all in the translation
Review: This morning I heard someone tell a co-worker not to bother to
see this awful movie about nothing, with no ending.
So I had to check amazon reviews to see if anyone else had loved it like I did. It looks like the people who loved it, had explained it perfectly.
It is not for someone who prefers a less subtle movie -
action films, or the in-your-face style comedy of the Farrelly Bros. Some movie watchers don't want to translate, they want the point to be obvious. We thought this movie was touching, magical, funny and sweet. A reviewer said it best - it makes you feel something you haven't been able to put into words. My husband and I didn't want the movie to end, we had become so involved with the chemistry of these two people.
Obviously not for everyone.
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Summary: lost in hype...my money that is
Review: good acting. beautiful views of the city. incredibily overrated. with all of the hype surrounding this movie, i figured i would save myself the 4 bucks it would cost to rent this movie and just go ahead and buy it...b/c i was assured by the world that i would like it. so i'm sitting, watching, trying to be engaged by this 'amazing' movie, 30mins, 60mins, 90mins...still waiting for the scene where i come to love this movie, that defining moment when i identify and empathize with the screenwriter, the characters, the city. 45 mins into it my wife said, 'this is dumb' and i said, 'wait, maybe the big payoff is coming. i'm still waiting. with the exception of the cinematography, there is nothing in this movie that wasn't in harold and maude...that other weird movie about the old and the young shacking up. i can't even really describe what this movie is about. is it a midlife crisis movie? a movie about loners and lonliness? a soulmate movie? my wife pointed out that trying to tell someone about this movie would be a difficult chore b/c no matter what you said, no matter how you recalled the story, the message, one way or another, would get...lost in translation.
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Summary: WHERE'S MY $3.00??????????????
Review: I WANT ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE CONSIDERING BUYING THIS HORRIBLY BAD MOVIE THAT SOME TIME AGO, I ASKED ANYONE WHO WROTE A REVIEW OF THIS MOVIE AND GAVE IT 5-STARTS, TO SEND $3.00 TO THE CHARITY OF THEIR CHOICE IN MY NAME (FUFUPAME) AND AS OF YET, NO ONE HAS PAY ME BACK THE $3.00 I SPENT RENTING THIS EXCUSE FOR A MOVIE.
BE FORWARNED! WHOEVER GIVES THIS MOVIE 5-STARTS IS HOPING YOU BUY THE COPY OF THE MOVIE THEY BOUGHT FROM THEIR LOCAL BLOCKBUSTER STORE. DON'T BE FOOLED! RENT.. OR BETTER YET HAVE ONE OF YOUR VICTIMS... EXCUSE ME, FRIEND WHO BOUGHT THIS MOVIE BY MISTAKE, TO LEND IT TO YOU FIRST. TRUST ME, IF YOU SPEND MONEY ON THIS MOVIE, YOU WILL REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! PLEASE EMAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW THAT SOMEONE HAS PAID ME BACK MY $3.00 -- P.L.E.A.S.E!
MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: FUFUPAME@PEOPLEPC.COM. THANK YOU.
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Summary: Great Movie, Poor DVD
Review: This isn't a review of the movie, just a warning about the DVD. FIVE MINUTES OF ADVERTISING THAT CANNOT BE SKIPPED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In other words, every time that I will watch a movie that I love, I will start out angry.
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Summary: you either get it or you don't
Review: For those of us who identify with the characters, "Lost In Translation" pinpoints the heart of what we have never found words to describe.
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Summary: Lost in Filming
Review: I'll start by saying that I did not like this movie. I was ready to stop watching it after 30 minutes but stuck it out to the end. Mostly, what I appreciate in a movie is good writing. Acting and cinema photography help but, in my opinion, cannot carry a movie. The nighttime photography was rather compelling but it made me want to visit Tokyo about as much as Potterville (which it rather resembled.)
This just might have made a good book, however. The thoughts and feelings of the three primary characters could have been presented (in a book) in such a way that the reader would have a different impression of them than was obtained from the movie: indifference. I neither liked nor disliked any of the main characters and felt no more involved in their lives than I would to the guy next to me at the airport after having listened to one end of his cell phone conversation.
This book/movie comparison works both ways. One of my all-time favorite books is "Catcher in the Rye." I have felt like I have known Holden Caufield all of my life. It would, however, make a horrible movie.
"Translation," (as a movie) in my opinion, had the makings of a good story. As I see it, it completely failed. I would be very interested to see it written as a novel.
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Summary: What a beautiful film!
Review: I just will say I saw "Lost in Translation" on a plane from the United States, and it may be the only time in my life I have enjoyed watching a film in flying. I think Japan must be a very interesting place. It has a good mix of old and modern and I can see it will be very hard for an out sider to understand. I have been through a very same experience in US, and even I could follow the language. You might think it not believable that a 20 year old girl could be so close with an older man but I have seen it happen all the time. Even many I have seen get married. Both of the main stars in this film were very good. I was so happy to see it win the Oscars when I was in Sacramento. I think the woman director is very charming and very talented. In India we do not have enough of this quiet sort of film. Even the films we see from America are not like this. I wish I could see more such films.
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Summary: I (REALLY) wanted to like it
Review: I have enjoyed Bill Murray's work over the years. I haven't always LOVED it, but he can always make me laugh. My favorite is "Ground Hog Day," which shows more character depth than many of his others. I was interested in seeing this movie because of the things that I heard about Bill and this role. I heard that he was deep and meaningful. I was prepared for a bit of "artsiness," and I was prepared to like Bill Murray if not the entire film. I figured - with the Academy Award nomination and all - that he must have broken new ground and stretched his acting range. Well, I failed to enjoy the movie and found Bill Murray almost unrecognizable as a living person. Perhaps the movie was just about how shallow many people are. Perhaps it was about how difficult it can be to be married, to get older, to be deeply bored, to have a mediocre career, to think you made a big mistake. Maybe it is about how an unlikely, inconsequential individual can show up and almost ruin your life, that of your spouse, and that of any existing children. Any of these seem like plausible themes for this film. However, there was almost no character development and almost no plot. As a result, I will never know what this movie was trying to do. Furthermore, I'll probably forget all about the whole thing as soon as I hit the save button for this review.
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