Are you a fan of Lost in Translation (2003) ?

Gympodie

I realize that it is a movie that divides many an opinion. Some find it very boring, and others really love it. I am someone that loves it. It is a movie, that in my opinion you have to have a certain state of mind or outlook on life to really appreciate and love it.

The soundtrack is wonderful - I have been listening to it for the last ten years.

What about you? Are you a fan?

alchemist33

I enjoyed it more for the ambience than anything else, and I also like the soundtrack. But my wife hates it like no other film and swore to never watch another film by Sofia Coppola.

s15r330

I love it so much, easily in my top 5.
Dunno how someone couldn't like it.

Its a perfect depiction of how we can get jaded by life, the 9-5, the other half who has turned into a business partner in the business of making a family and going through the motions with one day bleeding into the next, rather than the person you married and fell in love with.

Then the rediscovery of what it really means to find someone who you have a real connection with and who can make you happy.

Great film!

Teyla Emmagan

2003!!

OMG

Gympodie

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

2003!!

OMG

What do you mean?

Kintarō Hattori

Gympodie wrote: »

What do you mean?

She means it's hard to believe the movie is 14 years old and fecking hell, where has that time gone.

Tom Mann Centuria

alchemist33 wrote: »

I enjoyed it more for the ambience than anything else, and I also like the soundtrack. But my wife hates it like no other film and swore to never watch another film by Sofia Coppola.

I agree with your wife, incredibly irritating film. Slow, unfunny and style over substance.

judeboy101

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

I agree with your wife, incredibly irritating film. Slow, unfunny and style over substance.

I'm a fan of that opening shot

Zeek12

If I'm to wear my critics hat, I would say the script is too thin to fill 100+ minutes. Its really a style-over-substance movie.

That being said - the atmosphere, soundtrack and the two lead performances are excellent.

I felt a little underwhelmed seeing it in the cinema for the first time; mostly because there had been an awful lot of hype on it's release.

Enjoyed it much more when I re-watched it a couple of years later....

Den14

Loved this so much. Watching it, it reminded me of having a great day or night out which was so unexpected and out of the blue. Being in a perhaps new and unusual place and when you are in that fuzzy happy moment where you stop and take in your surroundings and hope that this point in time could last forever and take that mental snapshot for your memories to cherish for years to come.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

It's my favourite movie of all time....

Lorelli!

I can't remember it tbh. Went to see it in the cinema when I was about 18 with my friend and her brother. Didn't know anything about it beforehand and assumed because Bill Murray was in it that it was a comedy!

Didn't really enjoy it at the time but I might like it if I watched it again.

Fancy Bear

Great film. Really liked it. Wouldn't be one of my favourites, but it I think with its style and soundtrack it does invoke a big emotional response (for me anyway). Particularly melancholic.

Zaph

Absolutely adore it, it's definitely in my top 3 films. Went to see it in the cinema on my own because I knew that none of my friends would have any interest in it, but I wasn't expecting to be so mesmerised by it. I was glad I went on my own because it meant I didn't have to talk to anyone afterwards. That said, I can understand why people don't like it, in particular I know the ambiguous ending really bugs some people, but for me it's one of the great cinematic experiences.

yerwanthere123

Not a fan of it I'm afraid. I tried so hard to like it, in fact I've watched it two or three times, and it just didn't click with me at all. I agree with those who said style over substance, I think it's a movie that thinks it's a lot more clever than it actually is.

Decuc500

Lost in Translation surely has style and substance. It's not just a good looking film with a great soundtrack. There's so much more to it than that.

It's funny and sad, very emotional. Two great central performances. A film about two lonely people connecting with each other half a world away from home that isn't very conventional and doesn't spoon feed it's audience. There's a lot to take from it and think about afterwards.

lazybones32

Heard the hype, watched it, wouldn't watch it again.
Not my type of film.

valoren

I like it for the golf scene.
No music, dialogue. Just a static camera.
He walks to the tee, takes a practice swing, and splits the fairway.
Just love that part as it's my exact idea of relaxing. Golfing alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjSrAmExFA

Rothko

It's one of my favourite movies ever

Samuri Suicide

Absolutely loved it. Watched it by myself and bought the soundtrack from Virgin megastore when I left. Still on my playlist to this day.

Shelga

Absolutely love it too.

However, I remember I first saw it when it came out on DVD, I would have been about 15. I remember not paying attention properly as a friend was over, and being a bit bored.

Then I watched it again properly about 5 years later and totally fell in love with it, it's very much my type of film. Genuinely feel like I wasn't old enough to appreciate it the first time. Watched it again when on holiday in Japan with friends last year

It's just a beautiful, beautiful film, Bill Murray's performance is perhaps one of my favourite ever. The way he portrays the bemusement, dry wit, emotional fatigue and wisdom of his character is so well done. I love the connection they have and how both recognise that it is fleeting. I think it's the type of film that you'd see something new in with every 5/10 years that passes in your own life. And Japan is my favourite place I have ever visited, and the depiction of it in LIT is spot on.

God I want to watch it again now!

gramar

One of my favourites even before it took on an extra special significance for me. The silences say just as much as the dialogue. Perfect soundtrack too.

bnt

It's one of those movies I don't watch a lot, because I don't want to ruin it by over-exposure. I'm keeping it for some time in the future when I'm feeling down and need a little boost. You really have to listen to it through headphones, I find - there's so much going on aurally in the quiet scenes that makes them work.

sxt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ttJ-c_A9zE

beardo81

A wonderful, wonderful movie. A young woman and older, man both jaded by life for different reasons, find a connection and the chemistry between them is so subtle & electric it carries the whole movie.

Love it

take everything

Den14 wrote: »

Loved this so much. Watching it, it reminded me of having a great day or night out which was so unexpected and out of the blue. Being in a perhaps new and unusual place and when you are in that fuzzy happy moment where you stop and take in your surroundings and hope that this point in time could last forever and take that mental snapshot for your memories to cherish for years to come.

I think the choice of Roxy Music's "more than this" is particularly apt on the Karaoke scene.
This is as good as it gets as it were.

First time I watched it I questioned if it was overrated but I've grown to love it. Coppola is a great director IMHO and she has a way of making you feel like you're there with the two characters. Beautifully shot, great soundtrack and just a nice slice of life movie.

Love the smaller parts as well like Anna Faris's dumb blonde actress. Love Anna Faris anyway.
For me when i think back on it although not an awful lot happens it's a really cohesive, evocative piece.

Miss Demeanour

Found it a beautiful kinda bittersweet movie. Watched it in the arms of someone I love and heard 'I love you' as the credits rolled......fave movie of all time.

zoobizoo

Saw it in the cinema and loved it... think it struck such a chord with me.

I remember at the time leaving the cinema and my friend turned to me and said "what the f*ck was that all about??"

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

It's a movie that made me fall in love with a place I've never been to...no other film has ever done that to me.

makeitcount

Such a memorable movie