I agree with why people wouldn't like Lost in Translation too.
I prefer those movies...I WANT to think. I want to wonder. I want to be the one to fill in the blanks.
Paul Giamatti....so funny in Sideways.
but it was ALL blank (lost in translation). If I wanna watch two people looking at eachother and showing emotion, I can go out in the street. I don't think they should pay people to simply ACT that.
And if I want a blank canvas, I'll write a book. It's not about having a short attention span, it's just about it being crap.
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i have only ever turned 2 movies off in my life.. Sideways was one... i never even smirked during that movie.. thought it was pretentious shite... and that hot wine women would never go for Giamatti... he was a snivelling wreck in that movie... unbearable :(
Magnolia is my other one i couldnt watch!!! bored me to death
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
i think if you watch this on mute then its stunning visually... i know Tarantino steals ideas but as a movie its beautiful to watch... imo
i thought Lost in Tranlsation was excellent... loved it.
The Virgin Suicides was an excellent movie also... i've not seen MArie Antoniette yet but mrs dunk loved that also
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
i have only ever turned 2 movies off in my life.. Sideways was one... i never even smirked during that movie.. thought it was pretentious shite... and that hot wine women would never go for Giamatti... he was a snivelling wreck in that movie... unbearable :(
Magnolia is my other one i couldnt watch!!! bored me to death
Aw you shouldn't have turned off sideways... I can see why it MIGHT be boring to some until a certain point but the last half hour or so is bloody hilarious.
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i think if you watch this on mute then its stunning visually... i know Tarantino steals ideas but as a movie its beautiful to watch... imo
i thought Lost in Tranlsation was excellent... loved it.
The Virgin Suicides was an excellent movie also... i've not seen MArie Antoniette yet but mrs dunk loved that also
no no no youve got it all wrong. tarantino doesnt steal ideas, he recontextualises them. he uses movies no bastard has seen anyway and tweaks them for the blank generation. hes doing us a service by broadening our cinematic horizons. either that or hes full of shit... just like i am, writing this.
as for lost in translation, let it be said i am not the worlds greatest bill murray fan. but i think there was a banality to it that reflected 'real' life. her husband ignored her whilst he was bored, and as both were in a foreign environment, they connected. there's no aphrodisiac like loneliness.
i liked the virgin suicides but as yet have not seen marie antoinette. but seeings i got a bit of a girlie crush on kirsten dunst, i will.
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Aw you shouldn't have turned off sideways... I can see why it MIGHT be boring to some until a certain point but the last half hour or so is bloody hilarious.
oh trust me i'm glad i did... i couldnt give a fuck how funny the end of it was... the first hour and 8 mins was enough for me... i mean i wouldnt pay to watch Billy Connolly do fuck all for one hour and then come out with 30mins of killer material... if its a comedy i want the laughs all the time.. if its a drama then please have things happen... if its some romance story thing then i want some jug shots... but sideways was about some cock who cried a lot and scared his ex-wife and liked expensive wine whilst his friend was a jock who had shit hair and bored me by speaking in monosyllables. the last 30mins could have been epic... but it was like having sex with Sting... 4 hours of boring shit followed by an orgasm.. .big deal.. Stings a cock
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
And yep, some of you say that it's because it reflects real life... but I'm sorry, if I wanna see real life, I'll go out and look at it. If I'm watching a movie I want drama, I wanna escape and live somebody elses life for a couple of hours... I don't wanna people watch! I'd rather get on a bus for a couple of hours than watch lost in translation again.
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my post was fucking awesome and you picked me up on that?!?!?!
yeah i liked it but i have a strange drawing to Scarlett... plus it was set in Japan and i'm a sucker for that culture
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
And yep, some of you say that it's because it reflects real life... but I'm sorry, if I wanna see real life, I'll go out and look at it. If I'm watching a movie I want drama, I wanna escape and live somebody elses life for a couple of hours... I don't wanna people watch! I'd rather get on a bus for a couple of hours than watch lost in translation again.
hmm...interesting helen. the movies i like the best are ones i can relate to. ones that draw some sort of emotion from me. be it anger or empathy.
i thought sideways was bullshit too. but then again i think the whole wine appreciation/ afficiando crapola thingy is a total wankfest. but there you go. just drink the damn stuff will you. *she says as she takes a sip from her wineglass half full of merlot*
thomas haden church was so goddamn annoying in that film. and as for paul giametti... i'm sorry but after watching him in big fat liar countless times with my kids, i can not see him in any other role.
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hmm...interesting helen. the movies i like the best are ones i can relate to. ones that draw some sort of emotion from me. be it anger or empathy.
i thought sideways was bullshit too. but then again i think the whole wine appreciation/ afficiando crapola thingy is a total wankfest. but there you go. just drink the damn stuff will you. *she says as she takes a sip from her wineglass half full of merlot*
thomas haden church was so goddamn annoying in that film. and as for paul giametti... i'm sorry but after watching him in big fat liar countless times with my kids, i can not see him in any other role.
but it was the whole snobbery thing that I really found funny... so it's weird that we all look for different things in films... well I guess it's not really but ya know what I mean. it's all opinion. I just didn't find there was anything TO relate to in lost in translation though .
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but it was the whole snobbery thing that I really found funny... so it's weird that we all look for different things in films... well I guess it's not really but ya know what I mean. it's all opinion. I just didn't find there was anything TO relate to in lost in translation though .
i find snobbery of any kind highly amusing. must be the irish in me.
youve never been lonely helen? youve never wanted someone to just be there for you? youve never been taken for granted? youve never been an ageing hollywood star trying to keep his end in by doing commercials in a foreign country.
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i find snobbery of any kind highly amusing. must be the irish in me.
youve never been lonely helen? youve never wanted someone to just be there for you? youve never been taken for granted? youve never been an ageing hollywood star trying to keep his end in by doing commercials in a foreign country.
I've been all but one of those... nobody takes me for granted
Lol, of course I've been lonely and wanted someone to be there for me and I have been taken for granted... but I still didn't feel like I had anything in common with those 'characters'. Fuck, I've more in common with Julia Roberts in Pretty woman than Scarlett Johanssens character in Lost in translation.
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oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
I've been all but one of those... nobody takes me for granted
Lol, of course I've been lonely and wanted someone to be there for me and I have been taken for granted... but I still didn't feel like I had anything in common with those 'characters'. Fuck, I've more in common with Julia Roberts in Pretty woman than Scarlett Johanssens character in Lost in translation.
i found pretty woman an abhorrant film.
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I love chick flicks. I watched 'a lot like love' last night and thought it was great . Always have loved them
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I love chick flicks. I watched 'a lot like love' last night and thought it was great . Always have loved them
you see pretty woman as a chick flick?
the woman is a whore and the only way she finds legitimacy is through a man...a rich man. tis horseshit helen, utter horseshit. i found no redeeming qualities at all. ALL woman should be condemning this film.
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the woman is a whore and the only way she finds legitimacy is through a man...a rich man. tis horseshit helen, utter horseshit. i found no redeeming qualities at all. ALL woman should be condemning this film.
hahahaha... oh don't get me wrong. The storyline is pure bollox but I love the clothes and when they let her shop.
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hahahaha... oh don't get me wrong. The storyline is pure bollox but I love the clothes and when they let her shop.
That is the best response to a feminist attack on a film I have ever read
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Aw you shouldn't have turned off sideways... I can see why it MIGHT be boring to some until a certain point but the last half hour or so is bloody hilarious.
I agree. It all makes sense near the end. It becomes really funny in the last 30 minutes and you get to understand the characters a lot more.
REALLY????????????? Wow - 3 great movies IMO. It doesn't get much better than Pulp Fiction (probably my second favorite movie - behind American Beauty)
I found it really boring. I thought it was so overly conscious of itself and so overblown and hyped. There was no depth to it. It was like bubble gum, or a macdonalds. You gorge your senses on it and then feel really icky and none the wiser after the event.
Reservoir dogs was raw, and visceral entertainment. Pulp fiction was just mental junk food.
i have only ever turned 2 movies off in my life.. Sideways was one... i never even smirked during that movie.. thought it was pretentious shite... and that hot wine women would never go for Giamatti... he was a snivelling wreck in that movie... unbearable :(
Magnolia is my other one i couldnt watch!!! bored me to death
That was the point...it was poking fun at the pretentious wine culture. lol
That is what I found so hysterical about it. That there really are people out there like that.
But I can appreciate your distaste.
Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
That is the best response to a feminist attack on a film I have ever read
Thank you
Byrnzie I have to agree with you on Pulp Fiction... it just tries too hard to be cool... and like Hitch hiker said in another thread, I think Jackie Brown is WAY better than any of his other films. I'm not a big Tarantino fan at all. If something TRIES to be cool, it isn't! In my opinion of course.
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bring on the bashing. i just think this is an average movie.
Me too... I think I found it entertaining enough but it left absolutely no impression on me whatsoever.
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bring on the bashing. i just think this is an average movie.
In my top 5 of all time. If you haven't already, read the book. I never appreciated the film so as much until I read the book. Chuck Palahniuk's novel is better than the film but it brings a whole new appreciation to it. It fills in the holes a little. Divisive it is. Average it ain't.
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I found it really boring. I thought it was so overly conscious of itself and so overblown and hyped. There was no depth to it. It was like bubble gum, or a macdonalds. You gorge your senses on it and then feel really icky and none the wiser after the event.
Reservoir dogs was raw, and visceral entertainment. Pulp fiction was just mental junk food.
I thought you were making good points until the end. Reservoir Dogs was way more of a mental junk food movie then Pulp Fiction. You have to remember that no movie looked like Pulp Fiction before it was released and now you get 10 copies every year but none of them can touch the original.
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And if I want a blank canvas, I'll write a book. It's not about having a short attention span, it's just about it being crap.
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i have only ever turned 2 movies off in my life.. Sideways was one... i never even smirked during that movie.. thought it was pretentious shite... and that hot wine women would never go for Giamatti... he was a snivelling wreck in that movie... unbearable :(
Magnolia is my other one i couldnt watch!!! bored me to death
i think if you watch this on mute then its stunning visually... i know Tarantino steals ideas but as a movie its beautiful to watch... imo
i thought Lost in Tranlsation was excellent... loved it.
The Virgin Suicides was an excellent movie also... i've not seen MArie Antoniette yet but mrs dunk loved that also
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no no no youve got it all wrong. tarantino doesnt steal ideas, he recontextualises them. he uses movies no bastard has seen anyway and tweaks them for the blank generation. hes doing us a service by broadening our cinematic horizons. either that or hes full of shit... just like i am, writing this.
as for lost in translation, let it be said i am not the worlds greatest bill murray fan. but i think there was a banality to it that reflected 'real' life. her husband ignored her whilst he was bored, and as both were in a foreign environment, they connected. there's no aphrodisiac like loneliness.
i liked the virgin suicides but as yet have not seen marie antoinette. but seeings i got a bit of a girlie crush on kirsten dunst, i will.
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oh trust me i'm glad i did... i couldnt give a fuck how funny the end of it was... the first hour and 8 mins was enough for me... i mean i wouldnt pay to watch Billy Connolly do fuck all for one hour and then come out with 30mins of killer material... if its a comedy i want the laughs all the time.. if its a drama then please have things happen... if its some romance story thing then i want some jug shots... but sideways was about some cock who cried a lot and scared his ex-wife and liked expensive wine whilst his friend was a jock who had shit hair and bored me by speaking in monosyllables. the last 30mins could have been epic... but it was like having sex with Sting... 4 hours of boring shit followed by an orgasm.. .big deal.. Stings a cock
And yep, some of you say that it's because it reflects real life... but I'm sorry, if I wanna see real life, I'll go out and look at it. If I'm watching a movie I want drama, I wanna escape and live somebody elses life for a couple of hours... I don't wanna people watch! I'd rather get on a bus for a couple of hours than watch lost in translation again.
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my post was fucking awesome and you picked me up on that?!?!?!
yeah i liked it but i have a strange drawing to Scarlett... plus it was set in Japan and i'm a sucker for that culture
hmm...interesting helen. the movies i like the best are ones i can relate to. ones that draw some sort of emotion from me. be it anger or empathy.
i thought sideways was bullshit too. but then again i think the whole wine appreciation/ afficiando crapola thingy is a total wankfest. but there you go. just drink the damn stuff will you. *she says as she takes a sip from her wineglass half full of merlot*
thomas haden church was so goddamn annoying in that film. and as for paul giametti... i'm sorry but after watching him in big fat liar countless times with my kids, i can not see him in any other role.
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i find snobbery of any kind highly amusing. must be the irish in me.
youve never been lonely helen? youve never wanted someone to just be there for you? youve never been taken for granted? youve never been an ageing hollywood star trying to keep his end in by doing commercials in a foreign country.
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Lol, of course I've been lonely and wanted someone to be there for me and I have been taken for granted... but I still didn't feel like I had anything in common with those 'characters'. Fuck, I've more in common with Julia Roberts in Pretty woman than Scarlett Johanssens character in Lost in translation.
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i found pretty woman an abhorrant film.
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I love chick flicks. I watched 'a lot like love' last night and thought it was great
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you see pretty woman as a chick flick?
the woman is a whore and the only way she finds legitimacy is through a man...a rich man. tis horseshit helen, utter horseshit. i found no redeeming qualities at all. ALL woman should be condemning this film.
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oh jesus please save me... :rolleyes:
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I agree. It all makes sense near the end. It becomes really funny in the last 30 minutes and you get to understand the characters a lot more.
I found it really boring. I thought it was so overly conscious of itself and so overblown and hyped. There was no depth to it. It was like bubble gum, or a macdonalds. You gorge your senses on it and then feel really icky and none the wiser after the event.
Reservoir dogs was raw, and visceral entertainment. Pulp fiction was just mental junk food.
That is what I found so hysterical about it. That there really are people out there like that.
But I can appreciate your distaste.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
bring on the bashing. i just think this is an average movie.
Byrnzie I have to agree with you on Pulp Fiction... it just tries too hard to be cool... and like Hitch hiker said in another thread, I think Jackie Brown is WAY better than any of his other films. I'm not a big Tarantino fan at all. If something TRIES to be cool, it isn't!
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I may get flayed alive for this but I thought it was really slow and boring while simultaneously crude and sappy.
I also fell asleep during "Lost in Translation." Bill Murray wasn't funny or even interesting and ScarJo wasn't hot. What's the point here?
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I thought you were making good points until the end. Reservoir Dogs was way more of a mental junk food movie then Pulp Fiction. You have to remember that no movie looked like Pulp Fiction before it was released and now you get 10 copies every year but none of them can touch the original.
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Ditto!
Horrible on all accounts. And yes, even the clothes!!!!
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