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3/14/2004 6:38:30 PM EDT
Boring movie.  Did I miss something?
3/14/2004 6:43:27 PM EDT
[#1]
I concur.  Everyone raved about that movie.  Completely overrated.  And dull.  Although the shots of Bill Murray golfing at dawn with Mt. Fuji in the background was very pretty.
3/14/2004 6:43:32 PM EDT
[#2]
Not a thing, It sucked amazingly.
3/14/2004 6:44:53 PM EDT
[#3]
You mean the movie where two people stared at each other for two hours and nothing else happened?
3/14/2004 6:48:48 PM EDT
[#4]
I disagree, but then again I thought the opening shot of Scarlett Johanson's panty clad butt was worth $8 by itself.

I also loved the Japanese/American culture clash.
3/14/2004 7:05:04 PM EDT
[#5]
"the opening shot of Scarlett Johanson's panty clad butt" is damned hard to beat, and it brought Airsoft into my wife's experience, but other than that it did nothing for me.  I give it credit for not being the same old shit out of Hollywood, but it was uneventful at best.
3/14/2004 7:08:31 PM EDT
[#6]
I don't get the movie either.  When the credits started to come up I found myself thinking, "That's it!?"

Seems like they needed another 10-15 minutes to wrap things up.

CMOS
3/14/2004 7:23:53 PM EDT
[#7]
I kinda liked it. You have to go in with the expectation that the movie has limited goals, and try to assess how well it works within those restrictions. It's got feelings and stuff in it.
3/14/2004 7:29:30 PM EDT
[#8]
The hooker scene could have been dynamic.  Instead, it was a non-event.
3/14/2004 7:42:18 PM EDT
[#9]
HaHa, the hooker scene, WTF??? Sad. so sad.
3/14/2004 8:06:29 PM EDT
[#10]
The street scenes were right on, and it captured the whole feeling of being on a business trip in Japan perfectly.

The story totally sucked.  The climax of the movie, where he whispers something in her ear, you can't hear what he says.

Overall I give it two lids down.
3/14/2004 8:09:16 PM EDT
[#11]
That movie had some really funny shit. If it was, maybe half as long, maybe it could have kept my attention.
3/14/2004 8:10:10 PM EDT
[#12]
I found the character Charlotte charming and I think by the end of the movie I had a crush on her.

Pathetic.
3/14/2004 8:45:49 PM EDT
[#13]
I got the whole movie....yeah yeah yeah they are the only ones understanding eachother...yeah capitalism destroys art...



[SIZE=6]STILL THAT MOVIE SUCKED[/SIZE=6]

[rant] And on another note, I'm sooo sick of "artzi" people always trashing capitalism, and the "art makes life worth living" line...MONEY PUTS FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH! End of story! Period! So STFU!
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3/14/2004 8:56:48 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
I got the whole movie....yeah yeah yeah they are the only ones understanding eachother...yeah capitalism destroys art...



[SIZE=6]STILL THAT MOVIE SUCKED[/SIZE=6]

[rant] And on another note, I'm sooo sick of "artzi" people always trashing capitalism, and the "art makes life worth living" line...MONEY PUTS FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH! End of story! Period! So STFU!
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no shit

i've got a college "friend" who lives in town here

he has a music degree and is constantly bitching about "greedy capatilsts" and bitching about "tax cuts for the rich"

I haven't talked to the guy in about 8 months because every time he rants I have the almost overwhelming urge to break his fucking teeth.

here's why: he says all of this shit while 1) getting help paying his rent from his parents, who run a small business 2) driving around a brand new audi that his parents bought him as a graduation gift (I'm sure they pay his insurance too) 3) spending money going out to nice restaurants every weekend. the stupid prick works part time making sandwiches. what a tool.

he seemed ok in college, but that was before I figured out what a whining leech he is
3/14/2004 8:57:38 PM EDT
[#15]
what he said times 3!!!
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Not a thing, It sucked amazingly.
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3/14/2004 9:03:23 PM EDT
[#16]
It was a piece of crap.

Not one car chase, no one dove away from a fireball, shot guns holding them sideways, and there wasn't a witty catch-phrase as bad guy meets his demise.

Give me "Navy Seals" anyday.[rolleyes]
3/14/2004 9:07:47 PM EDT
[#17]
I'D RATHER TAKE A BATH WITH HILLERY THAN WATCH THAT TURD FILLED FILM EVER AGAIN!!!!

the only redeeming quality of that scat fest was the fact that murray is a republican. other than that, i'd equate that torturous experience with a phone call we've all gotten on a day off early in the morning. ya know, you try to sleep but it keeps ringing, ringing, ringing, & ringing. to the point of wanting to slowly tighten a vise on a chunk of skin on the back of your ball bag.

...did i mention that movie sucked?
3/14/2004 9:28:20 PM EDT
[#18]
You guys (me too) are so brainwashed with car chases, blood, tits and zombies, that you cannot distinguish quality when you see it. [:D]

That thing was dead-on as far as the depiction of business travel. If it sucked, then they did it right. Business travel sucks!

As far as the ending, what do you need, a friggin' billboard? He said something to the effect, "I'll contact you when I get back." Geez.
3/14/2004 9:33:17 PM EDT
[#19]
Hated it, and I lived in Japan for a year...
3/14/2004 11:17:47 PM EDT
[#20]
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You guys (me too) are so brainwashed with car chases, blood, tits and zombies, that you cannot distinguish quality when you see it. [:D]
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gratuituos (sp?) car crash, "hollywood" blow 'em up shit is largely lame, i agree.

the point is of this film is that the dialog & storyline seems entirely fathered by a post drunken-drug induced hollywood; "who can be more of an art/theatre fag" brain storm party.
3/14/2004 11:23:31 PM EDT
[#21]

If you liked "Lost In Translation" you'd love "About Schmidt".




3/14/2004 11:49:12 PM EDT
[#22]
HOLY THAT MOVIE SUCKED !!

I put on subtitles to see what he whispered in here ear, it said.

< whispers something >

I was like WTF!
3/14/2004 11:54:25 PM EDT
[#23]
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If you liked "Lost In Translation" you'd love "About Schmidt".
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And Rushmore!

I liked Lost in Translation very much.

Rob
3/15/2004 5:12:25 AM EDT
[#24]
Rushmore was good. Lost in Translation and About Schmidt sucked.
3/15/2004 5:23:27 AM EDT
[#25]
Sophia Coppola at an after oscar party let slip what he whispered, to wit:

"Can you beleive that people actually paid $10.00 & sat through this entire boring fucking movie?"

She denies it now, but the truth has come out.
3/15/2004 5:25:06 AM EDT
[#26]
Yeah, Rushmore was good (and Bill Murray's role was way better than what he delivered in Lost in Translation). Wes Anderson's movies are actually pretty funny and clever.  And they always have interesting pop music I've never heard before.
3/15/2004 6:09:22 AM EDT
[#27]
The movie sucked. Why didnt Murry bang her doggie style while kneading titties???
3/15/2004 6:14:46 AM EDT
[#28]
How this flick won any awards is beyond me.

Total piece of garbage, and Sofia Coppola is talentless.
3/15/2004 6:20:07 AM EDT
[#29]
I rented it to see what all the hype was about. I lived in Japan for 2 years and thought I might be able to relate in some way. After about the first 30 minutes I turned it off. It sucked ass.
3/15/2004 6:33:49 AM EDT
[#30]
Lived in Japan for three years and change. Liked "Lost In Translation", disliked "Rushmore" and "About Schmidt" (Full frontal Kathy Bates nudity without warning? Funny; but not in a ha-ha kind of way - at least not until you recommend the movie to someone else)
3/15/2004 7:12:25 AM EDT
[#31]
Sofia Coppola's first flick, "The Virgin Suicides" was far better, even though it also had a  non-ending.

This is simply a case of Hollyweird  refusing to believe that  the daughter (or grand daughter ?) of Francis Ford Coppola didn't inherit his talent.

hollyweird has it's own royalty, and they do their  damndest to preserve that illusion.

CKMorley