Overrated: Lost In TranslationApril 24th, 2007 in Awards, Overrated? |
I am about as big of fan as Bill Murray as there is and I think Scarlett Johansson is a great actress who is extraordinarily hot. So what don’t I like about this movie? Its SO DAMN BORING! After seeing the movie the day it came out, I truly believed it sucked despite the critical acclaim it received (it has a 95% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes). After hearing people continue to gush about the film, I made the mistake of renting it, thinking I might have missed something. I didn’t. It was still a boring film that plodded along.
The weird thing about the movie is that I think the leads played their parts very well. Johansson and Murray both had a great chemistry between them but the plot really stunk. Winning the Oscar for ‘Best Screenplay’ still shocks me to this day. To the best of knowledge, I don’t think ‘Best Screenplay’ should be given to something that will bore you to tears.
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April 25th, 2007 at 3:56 am
I agree, Frank, although I think you should go into more detail than it being just boring. My problem with the film is that it attempts to be so aloof of meaning that people see that as being profound. IT isn’t, it’s just very broad and very basic, and as a friend once said to me, it’s so broad that people end up projecting their own lives into the film, rather than the film projecting any interesting thoughts and ideas into their minds. It’s like looking at a blank page and imagining pretty pictures on it.
I also don’t like that it takes cheap shots at Japanese culture in order to keep the audience awak with a few laughs. I’ve been to Japan, and I assure you that shower heads are not that low. Sure, some Japanese are either reserved or crazy, but I cam e across plenty of great people too. But that’s onyl a minor flaw compared to the whopping great nothing that this film is.