I don't get "Lost In Translation"

Johnny C. · Mar 9, 2004

davenav said:

I have the undying capacity to truly believe that a film I'm especially fond of, will be regarded fondly by everyone else. I'm always mystified when it doesn't happen. I *love* About Schmit but I don't know anyone else who does. Lost In Translation is the same. Maybe I'm wierd for liking pictures that take their time, don't spell everything out, have enigmatic characters, avoid cliches, etc.

Bill Murray said it was his fave film that he was in.
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I loved "About Schmidt" too. For me, it was a laugh out loud riot. Many people think I am nuts because of this.

I also loved "Lost In Translation," but I can understand a younger-type person finding it boring.

Steve Hoffman · Mar 18, 2004

Just catching up on some older threads.

I loved "Lost In Translation", not just 'cause I've been in similar situations, but because S. C.'s characters didn't take the expected road (as I did not in real life if my wife is reading this)...

By the way, the only thing he could have whispered to her in the end (to put that great expression on her face) was "We will get together again back in LA".

BeatleFred · Mar 21, 2004

Well, whether you like the film or not, Bill does a pretty funny rendition of "(Whats So Funny Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding", reminds me of that lounge singer skit he used to do back in his SNL days.

B/F

davenav · Mar 23, 2004

whitenoise said:

My own take is that it's brilliant, and I certainly think it deserved more attention than it received at the Oscars. I haven't had or desired the sort of relationship depicted in the movie, so I think that's right out as a condition for liking it. It may be, however, that it requires some amount of emotional empathy or maturity to appreciate, though. (Or maybe you can just be a Nihonphile and appreciate the correctness of the cultural details.)

No, I don't think this fits the typical Bill Murray stereotype. In all his previous efforts, you never get the depth of honest emotion you see from him in this movie.

Here's Ebert's impression, if anyone cares (he loves it). He articulates the details better than I can. I think he's pretty spot on.

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/09/091201.html
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Wow! Great review!! I guess that's why Ebert has a Pulitzer and I don't.

Whenever I try to convey to someone how moving a picture like LIT is, I get those kind of rebukes like, "Your explanation made me realize I'm not missing anything." (Can you be a bit *more* condescending please? Yeeesh!)

Anyway this is an intoxicating movie for people who have a high appreciation of a little thing called subtlety, a quickly vanishing quality. It's still playing to good-size audiences here in NYC. And Steve likes it!!!

lv70smusic · Mar 23, 2004

If it's any consolation, Ebert's review didn't give me any greater appreciation of the film, either. Like I wrote earlier, to each his own.

davenav said:

Wow! Great review!! I guess that's why Ebert has a Pulitzer and I don't.

Whenever I try to convey to someone how moving a picture like LIT is, I get those kind of rebukes like, "Your explanation made me realize I'm not missing anything." (Can you be a bit *more* condescending please? Yeeesh!)

Anyway this is an intoxicating movie for people who have a high appreciation of a little thing called subtlety, a quickly vanishing quality. It's still playing to good-size audiences here in NYC. And Steve likes it!!!

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