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Summary: Suspicious of the recent 1 star reviews
Review: I have noticed several 1 star reviews, this seems like quite a coincidence that with such a rash of 5 star reviews we have a spate of 5 or 6 perfect reviews all from people with the same description. It is a shame that the few who actually liked this film have to resort to in essence stuffing the ballot box in order to keep the score inflated. There are many poeple who reply on these ratings before deciding whether to spend hard earned money and it is a real diservice to them to write multiple reviews under false pretenses. I hope in the future amazon will require a different sign on for each review.
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Summary: Not a bad film, but not all it's hyped to be
Review: I expected much more than a little-above-average plot from this film. After all the Hollywood fuss that was made, I was somewhat let down by the sheer lack of depth and intellect it offered. Sure, it was funny in some spots, but overall lacked in entertainment value. Don't buy it, rent it.
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Summary: Lost in Pure Boredom
Review: I have seen this type of film over and over--better ones--by unknown independent filmmakers and they have all been ignored. Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is noticed because of her name. Any unknown filmmaker makes this kind of film and it would go straight to the forgotten file.Please do not fall for the idiots that interpret this movie as profound. There is nothing extraordinary about this film. Some of the scenes seemed like they were there so that the film would reach a feature length--otherwise this would have really been a short film (it would have been good as a short film). It is getting recognition because Sofia is Francis Ford Coppola's daughter and Hollywood wants to make it a Hollywood story: the daughter of a onced great director is now a great director. What a Hollwood story it is! So let's nominate her and put her on the pedestal. Lost in Translation is a short film that Sofia Coppola extended to a very boring feature. Anything she makes now will be a masterpiece even when it's not. Only people with real sense will see that this film is garbage.
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Summary: Not for the ignorant or "idolers"
Review: People who give this film 1 star or wish they could give it negative stars need to either start watching movies or stop writing reviews. I can understand if something doesn't jibe with certain people's sensibilities, but COME ON!! ENOUGH WITH THE "WORST MOVIE EVER MADE" cliche. "Dude, Where's my Car?" is a piece of crap; so is "Troll 2". "Lost in Translation" is nowhere near this category. Life is indeed full of long moments of quiet reflection with very little action. The moments that are important are what creates the stories of our lives. But by portraying the dead time in between these moments, Coppola makes a piece of art that's not simply there to stimulate bodily nerves (Which I think was her reason for showing Scarlett's ass in the begin, just to fool you morons into thinking that there would be plenty of tang to go around) but to make you think and contemplate the boredom and loneliness in your own lives. Get this notion of "entertainment" out of your heads, kiddies. The great films don't simply entertain. You don't read "Hamlet" or "Leaves of Grass", or listen to Mozart just to be entertained. You do it because it moves you on some level buried deep inside where your conscious mindset can't see it. That's why we're capable of falling head-over-heals in love with someone in a dream only to wake up and realize we never lived that life at all; Or you can have the capacity to find beauty in the simplest of objects right outside your very window without needing that simple objects to give you a lap dance; or you can have an intimate connection with someone without sex and without ever seeing that person again. These feelings stem from the source and is created in the form of "art", and it's the artists job to tap into these unknown realms that seem strange to every untrained and unimpassioned slob who dares call this "The worst movie ever made." All slobs who sit around and let the television think for them have to drain the silicon out of their minds and get off their sex-saturated materialistic asses for half a second, and realize that these higher states of being do exist in the world. This is life, people, not your "Idol" worship, or your explosions.
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Summary: A MODEST ANSWER TO THE PHILOSOPHY STUDENT FROM WHEATON, ILL.
Review: ACTUALLY, I BELIEVE IT IS MY DUTY TO WRITE AN ANSWER TO THAT IDIOT WHO GAVE THIS MOVIE 5-STARS, "A PHILOSOPHY STUDENT FROM WHEATON, ILLINOIS". I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHOEVER READ HIS REVIEW DOES NOT GET THE IMPRESSION THAT "LOST IN TRANSLATION" IS A PHILOSOPHICAL TRIP INTO THE HUMAN SOUL. INSTEAD THIS MOVIE IS A HORRIBLY CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED MOVIE. IT ACTUALLY REMINDED ME OF ALL THOSE MIND-NUMBING RUSSIAN MOVIES I SAW IN CUBA DURING THE '60S (THOSE WERE THE ONLY MOVIES THAT CASTRO ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTRY IN THOSE DAYS, ANYTHING ELSE WOULD HAVE BEING, ACCORDING TO THE COMMUNISTS, "CAPITALISTIC OR IMPERIALISTIC" AND HENCE CORRUPTOR OF THE "PEOPLE'S MIND"). THOSE RUSSIAN MOVIES WERE BAD. I MEAN REAL BAD. I REMEMBER THAT IN ONE SCENE OF A NOW FORGOTTEN MOVIE, I SAW SOMEONE WHO FOR NO REASON AT ALL, WAS LOOKING OUT OF A WINDOW FOR WHAT SEEMED AN ETERNITY. I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS SCENE OVER AND OVER AS I SAT, BORED AND DEPRESSED DESPERATELY TRYING TO CONCENTRATE AT WATCHING THIS EXCUSE FOR A MOVIE, "LOST IN TRANSLATION" TO GET MY MONEY'S WORTH. YES, I ADMIT IT, I WATCHED THIS MOVIE. AFTER ALL, I PAID $3.00 RENTAL - I HAD TO SEE IT TO THE END. BAD MISTAKE, I SHOULD HAVE TURNED IT OFF AFTER THE FIRST 5 MINUTES BECAUSE THE REST OF THE MOVIE IS THE FIRST 5 MINUTES OF THE MOVIE BEING EXTENDED INTO A FULL LENGTH MOVIE.
BUT, BACK TO MY ANSWER TO OUR PHILOSOPHY STUDENT FROM WHEATON, ILLINOIS":
FIRST OF ALL, IN YOUR REVIEW, INSTEAD OF ASKING US TO EXAMINE OUR PITIFUL LITTLE LIVES, YOU SHOULD HAVE CONCENTRATED ON THE JOB ON HAND: REVIEW THE MOVIE "LOST IN TRANSLATION".
SECONDLY, YOU WERE NOT HELPING ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAY BE INFLUENCED TO BUYING THIS MOVIE SIMPLY BECAUSE BY READING YOUR PSEUDO-PHILOSOPHICAL MAMBO JUMBO THEY MAY THINK THEY ARE BUYING A "DEEP" AND COMPLEX MOVIE. BOY! WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WOULD BE!
AND THIRD, A BAD MOVIE, IS A BAD MOVIE, IS A BAD MOVIE, THERE IS NO PHILOSOPHIC MANOUVER THAT CAN CHANGE THAT.
... AND IN CONCLUSION: G-E-T -A- L-I-F-E.
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Summary: Lost in Worthlessness
Review: I am at a loss as to why anyone would like this film. It is the sad story of a long married man, alone in a strange city, where he can not speak the language, with no friends to communicate with, & a young married girl in the same situation having been abondoned by her artist husband for a few days. Bill Murray's character wants badly to jump the girls bones but can't/doesn't. When he does get the chance to get laid, its by the lounge singer in the hotel they are staying at. It was a boring 105 minutes of film for me. If he wins for best actor at the Oscars next week, I will eat my hat.
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Summary: If I could give this zero stars...
Review: I have to admit that I'm not a Bill Murray fan, but how this movie could get 5 stars frome anyone is a mystery. It is plotless, houmorless, and an overall waste of time and money. Can people "pump" a movie online just to get sales up? Every movie I've seen Murray in was better than this one.
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Summary: Why escapism is a good thing.
Review: Portions of this movie are ideal for illustrating to the folks at home, how lonely and isolating business travel can actually be. The best of places, in the greatest of locations, are little more than a velvet cage when you are alone for extended periods of time. The problem is that these are experiences you look forward to ending, not bringing into your home for entertainment purposes. Clearly the finest arts form a visceral connection with our emotions, but for me please, lets not connect with my sense of boredom. Real life is brimming with opportunities for boredom and isolation. This is not a plea for pabulum, but for gosh sakes, lets actually entertain. This is like watching "Empire," but with people.
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Summary: Intriguingly off-beat
Review: As a mainstream film this must be a rare example of its type. The plot, such as it is seems incidental to the situations in which the characters find themselves. If you have been abroad on business as I have, you will recognise many of the scenes. If you haven't you may find yourself wondering what the film is about... Calling home... two Germans talking while you wonder why you are alone... flicking through foreign language television stations... being dazzled by the sight of an unfamiliar landscape from your taxi... drinking on your own at the hotel bar... These and many more will be familiar to all the "suits" that travel by plane every day. Necessarily for such an atmosphere-biased film, the end left you wanting more, but not knowing what. Having said that, it was great while it lasted... very relaxing.
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Summary: Rich, Idle, "Troubled" People Are Not Interesting...
Review: I would've given this two stars were it not for the ridiculous overinflated five star ballet stuffing.
Look, there's just something about rich, idle, "troubled" people which evokes neither interest nor sympathy from me.
The Japan shots are nice; the hotel shots are, well, like hotel life--incredibly dull, and dullness does not a good movie make.
There's nothing of the real grit of life here.
I can see how a young girl with a whacked out daddy fetish could fall for this movie, but really, that's about it.
Bill Murray is typical Bill Murray, but he is subdued a bit, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to subdue the only and most interesting aspect to your movie.
Moreover, even Bill Murray's only other serious role--the movie "The Razor's Edge"--was more interesting, had more to offer, and that movie was largely panned by critics and audiences alike.
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