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I didn't find Lost in Translation (2003) funny.

  • 09-07-2015 10:41pm
    #1
    ALeroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    I mean it is perhaps one of my favourites but I didn't find it funny in fact the opposite, I found it to be deeply moving. Is it just me? Or does anyone else agree?


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  • #2
    The Gibzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭The Gibzilla


    I found it funny. This is one of my favourite comedy scenes in a movie in a while. I really don't think anyone else but Bill Murray could pull it off.



  • #3
    ShoulderChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    The Gibzilla wrote: »
    I found it funny. This is one of my favourite comedy scenes in a movie in a while. I really don't think anyone else but Bill Murray could pull it off.


    don't worry, I dont think anyone is suggestion it gets remade with you as the lead character!


  • #4
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    That's okay, there's more to the film than being straight up comedy anyway.

    In fact I think it's what puts off a few people from it, took me the second viewing to really appreciate it.


  • #5
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Who said it was a comedy? Bill Murray is in it and he brings a lot of (almost entirely improvised) humour with him, but that doesn't make it a comedy.


  • #6
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    It contains some situational comedy, but it's not explicitly a Comedy. It's even tagged as "Drama" on IMDB, not "Comedy". I think that what you get out of it depends a lot on what you bring to it. It's a "slice of life" movie, and so if you can see the comedy in your own life, you're more likely to see it in this movie, I think.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #7
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,526 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Some of the trailers fairly marketed as a comedy at the time from what I recall, but yeah it's not really a comedy, more a drama with a few funny bits.


  • #8
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    I remember seeing the trailers and at the time and thought it looks really funny. Obviously watching it was a different experience, probably laughed once or twice but overall didn't care much for it.


  • #9
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Yeah I never really considered it a comedy. A black comedy, maybe, but even then I just thought it was a really nice story and a great bit of cinema.


  • #10
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Thinking back to my experiences watching and rewatching this I think it really taught me to stop expecting/demanding certain things from movies and just let 'em work on their own terms. Seemed to get the idea from the trailers that it was just Bill Murray getting into funny situations in Tokyo and was let down, it's now in my top 50 of all time. :)


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