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Diverse in Unity
It's rather boring movie.
I do appreciate art, but there is nothing like that in this film.
Will do, perhaps it will tell me more than you did
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It's rather boring movie.
I do appreciate art, but there is nothing like that in this film.
Will do, perhaps it will tell me more than you did
Pokurcz
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Well if you find it to be a "boring movie" then you probably never gave it a chance because of your expectations...
I saw it only once in the cinema and found it swell, unfortunately I am now only left with the memory of isolated events and the overall feeling of the movie. That is why I presented you with the link.
I saw it only once in the cinema and found it swell, unfortunately I am now only left with the memory of isolated events and the overall feeling of the movie. That is why I presented you with the link.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I watched The Seven Year Itch the other day. Probably the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Maryln Monroe's voice gives me a headache, and she is not pretty. At all.
Raisin Bran
Cereal Killer
I've just seen Final Fantasy VII advent children and it totally kicks a$$!
Winner
Diverse in Unity
That's not true. After I realized this wouldn't be a comedy, I tried to look for some deeper meaning. I found nothing. I am afraid that the film completely failed to send any message, to make it clear what was the point.
I've seen it with few friends who are seriously into art movies and like many things I don't and even they said it was boring. It simply didn't live up to all that hype.
Jawz II
Oh Dear
Hey! Lost in Translation is a very good movie!
It got 7.9 on IMDb.
The hell with the IMDB, Im convinced the people who post on IMDB are the same group of morons who make all these god awful movies.
Pokurcz
Emperor
It is a movie acclaimed by critics.
The problem might be that you haven't reached a certain age or certain quantity of life experience to find something to relate to in that movie. I am not trying at a cheap "your not old enough" pun, I really think that Lost in Translation just might not the move for you right now.
Watch it in five years and see what happens.
IMDb might not be perfect, bot some people posting reviews there are realy good, and the score gives you a reasonably good indication of what to expect together with some research of what the movie is about. Suddenly you have a fair chance to find a movie to watch that will entertain you.
The problem might be that you haven't reached a certain age or certain quantity of life experience to find something to relate to in that movie. I am not trying at a cheap "your not old enough" pun, I really think that Lost in Translation just might not the move for you right now.
Watch it in five years and see what happens.
IMDb might not be perfect, bot some people posting reviews there are realy good, and the score gives you a reasonably good indication of what to expect together with some research of what the movie is about. Suddenly you have a fair chance to find a movie to watch that will entertain you.
Jawz II
Oh Dear
Yeah, thanks for the thinly veiled insults, I'm obviously too much of a dumbass to see the briliant comedy in that POS.
Or that movie is just a POS.
The movie's punchline: Japanese people are freaking weird! and you can sell any crap to them!
Me: Wow, this is all very new to me! back in 1984!
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Diverse in Unity
I just finished watching Wolf Creek, a "horror" movie. Boring. Not as much as Lost in Traslation, but it obviously failed as a "horror" movie. I have no idea if it's true that it was based on a real event, but if it is, it should be called a documentary.
It's 1.5 hours long, but the "action" (it is not really an action) starts in 2/3 of the film. Until this we see 3 young people travelling over Australia. Nice views of empty wilderness, but nothing scary. For the first 50 minutes, there is no horror atmosphere, no tension, it is really more like an amateur video made by an ordinary group of people on a trip. The worst thing is that this part of the film is completely unnecessary. We learn almost nothing about the protagonists, perhaps except the fact that the hot girl likes the man, which is of absolutely no consequence whatsoever later in the movie, and that they are both idiots. I have no idea why they had to kill so much time by this pure boredom. 15 minutes would have been sufficient to introduce the main characters and it could have been done in much better way, perhaps we could have even learnt something about them.
The main villain is a psychopathic Australian "redneck" who apparently likes to kill tourists who are left stranded on his "hunting ground"
He's actually quite amusing (once again, like in case of many other similar "horror" movies, I found myself on the side of the killer, not because I am a psycho or something, but simply because the victims are so totally stupid idiots they deserve to die in order to improve the human gene pool) and plays with them. It's actually the best enacted character in the whole thing. The victims, as usual, act very stupid, they don't kill the murderer when they have a chance, they do illogical things, they talk when there is no time for that, they are so stereotypical you're happy when they die. At least the least stupid character survives, while the other two die.
Simply put, it could have been 50% shorter. Perhaps if I wasn't so bored by the first part, I'd enjoy the action part, but after 50 minutes of dullness, you expect something really good and this simply doesn't satisfy you.
Is it just me, or nobody makes decent horror films anymore?
It's 1.5 hours long, but the "action" (it is not really an action) starts in 2/3 of the film. Until this we see 3 young people travelling over Australia. Nice views of empty wilderness, but nothing scary. For the first 50 minutes, there is no horror atmosphere, no tension, it is really more like an amateur video made by an ordinary group of people on a trip. The worst thing is that this part of the film is completely unnecessary. We learn almost nothing about the protagonists, perhaps except the fact that the hot girl likes the man, which is of absolutely no consequence whatsoever later in the movie, and that they are both idiots. I have no idea why they had to kill so much time by this pure boredom. 15 minutes would have been sufficient to introduce the main characters and it could have been done in much better way, perhaps we could have even learnt something about them.
The main villain is a psychopathic Australian "redneck" who apparently likes to kill tourists who are left stranded on his "hunting ground"
He's actually quite amusing (once again, like in case of many other similar "horror" movies, I found myself on the side of the killer, not because I am a psycho or something, but simply because the victims are so totally stupid idiots they deserve to die in order to improve the human gene pool) and plays with them. It's actually the best enacted character in the whole thing. The victims, as usual, act very stupid, they don't kill the murderer when they have a chance, they do illogical things, they talk when there is no time for that, they are so stereotypical you're happy when they die. At least the least stupid character survives, while the other two die.Simply put, it could have been 50% shorter. Perhaps if I wasn't so bored by the first part, I'd enjoy the action part, but after 50 minutes of dullness, you expect something really good and this simply doesn't satisfy you.
Is it just me, or nobody makes decent horror films anymore?
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I would like to take this opertunity to apologise on behalf of my country, city and neighbourhood for Senes of a Sexual Nature. Fantastic cast with a backdrop of Hampsted Heath - how could you go wrong?
The worlds worst script writer is a good start. The editor, sound editor and whoever was in charge of the music should also be ashamed. The producer - for organising such an epicaly awful waste of talent and scenery must have his head set on a spike outside the tower (for the encouragement of others). Then at lest some good could come of this.
I only hope it didnt get any sort of international release, and once again - sorry.
Battle of the wits
not bad, but not impressive enough.
Apolcolyto
very very nice movie. the scene of the Mayan cities totally surprised me + its not as violent as i expected it to be or rumoured.
Casino Royale
Nice surprise, quite nicely done and the scene + dialogues are cool, only complain is that its too draggy toward the end of the movie.
not bad, but not impressive enough.
Apolcolyto
very very nice movie. the scene of the Mayan cities totally surprised me + its not as violent as i expected it to be or rumoured.
Casino Royale
Nice surprise, quite nicely done and the scene + dialogues are cool, only complain is that its too draggy toward the end of the movie.
Chukchi Husky
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Yesterday I watched A Clockwork Orange.
Pokurcz
Emperor
“Yeah, thanks for the thinly veiled insults, I'm obviously too much of a dumbass to see the briliant comedy in that POS.
Or that movie is just a POS.
The movie's punchline: Japanese people are freaking weird! and you can sell any crap to them!
Me: Wow, this is all very new to me! back in 1984!”
Well that was a thinly veiled try at a rip-off of Bill Hicks review of ‘Basic Instinct’ if I ever saw one.
The movie ‘Lost in Translation’ is all about subtlety and is therefore bereft of loud portrayals of bursting emotions, violence and sex (unlike ‘Basic Instinct’ which is a POS).
What ‘Lost in Translation’ does portray is emotional turmoil beneath the skin of the main characters who both are going through episodes in their separate lives that are on the brink of turning their lives on end.
This is all happening with the fascinating exoticness of Japanese society (a society struggling to find itself between old traditions and the modern way of life) in the background.
What I meant before, in my perhaps blunt way caused by my lack of patience that I would like to apologise for, is that because it is such a subtle movie it might be rather difficult to identify with the story it tells. Not because your immature, but because your not in tune with it, and perhaps not sufficiently in touch with your emotions, because it is a story about emotions.
Or that movie is just a POS.
The movie's punchline: Japanese people are freaking weird! and you can sell any crap to them!
Me: Wow, this is all very new to me! back in 1984!”
Well that was a thinly veiled try at a rip-off of Bill Hicks review of ‘Basic Instinct’ if I ever saw one.
The movie ‘Lost in Translation’ is all about subtlety and is therefore bereft of loud portrayals of bursting emotions, violence and sex (unlike ‘Basic Instinct’ which is a POS).
What ‘Lost in Translation’ does portray is emotional turmoil beneath the skin of the main characters who both are going through episodes in their separate lives that are on the brink of turning their lives on end.
This is all happening with the fascinating exoticness of Japanese society (a society struggling to find itself between old traditions and the modern way of life) in the background.
What I meant before, in my perhaps blunt way caused by my lack of patience that I would like to apologise for, is that because it is such a subtle movie it might be rather difficult to identify with the story it tells. Not because your immature, but because your not in tune with it, and perhaps not sufficiently in touch with your emotions, because it is a story about emotions.
Jawz II
Oh Dear
Oh yeah Bill Hicks is the only person to have ever used the phrase "POS", in fact he invented it back in 1846, did you know that?
Oh yes indeed, it was in the old country where he used to work as a stable boy, this was before he migrated to america. He worked for this wealthy baroness who had a son.
The son was somewhat ******** and would do all kinds of ******** things, including molesting the stable animals. One day Bill found the boy trying to have intercourse with his favourite horse, so being powerless to punish the brat, he gave him some fresh cow dung and told him it was a new kind of chocolate from france and sent him on his way.
The boy went to his mothers room, while happily eating, to offer some of his new 'candy' to his mother. When offered some of the not so tasty treat, the baroness was horrified and shreaked; NO DON'T EAT THAT, THAT'S A POS!!
Her shrill voice carried all over the courtyard of her castle and all the servants and stable people and miscellanous other peasents working for her burst out laughing at the same time. Henceforth it was declared that anything crap someone tries to unload on one in pretense of goodness, should be refered to as a POS.
In fact that is the reason Billy hicks had to migrate to america, to escape the wrath of the baroness and her dung eating son, bet you didn't know that!
Either that or youre an ass.
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emotional turmoil beneath the skin of the main characters who both are going through episodes in their separate lives = POS movie.
fascinating exoticness of Japanese society = Back in 1984... we've already gone over this part havent we? yeah.
Pokurcz
Emperor
I see that apparently I have won by walkover, cause evidently your mind has left you to visit its grandma.
Now for the sake of the argument...
"emotional turmoil beneath the skin of the main characters who both are going through episodes in their separate lives = POS movie."
A lot of "art" is about even less than that, perhaps that is why it is art. It lies, in this instance, in depicting an important instance in peoples lives with the least use of exclamation marks.
For any bozo can show a lot of violence and sex on film. Just as any bozo can and does appreciate that, including myself when I am in the mood for it.
Why wont you call it a "girly movie" while your at it, because it is about feelings.
Lost in Translation is a movie that wakes introspection and reassessment of ones life in a person, but one has to be receptable. True art IMO.
"fascinating exoticness of Japanese society = Back in 1984... we've already gone over this part havent we? yeah."
So Japanese society can not be fascinating to westerners ever again because it was fascinating then? I fail to see your point, please explain.
Now for the sake of the argument...
"emotional turmoil beneath the skin of the main characters who both are going through episodes in their separate lives = POS movie."
A lot of "art" is about even less than that, perhaps that is why it is art. It lies, in this instance, in depicting an important instance in peoples lives with the least use of exclamation marks.
For any bozo can show a lot of violence and sex on film. Just as any bozo can and does appreciate that, including myself when I am in the mood for it.
Why wont you call it a "girly movie" while your at it, because it is about feelings.
Lost in Translation is a movie that wakes introspection and reassessment of ones life in a person, but one has to be receptable. True art IMO.
"fascinating exoticness of Japanese society = Back in 1984... we've already gone over this part havent we? yeah."
So Japanese society can not be fascinating to westerners ever again because it was fascinating then? I fail to see your point, please explain.
Technocactus
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You may find Lost In Translation to be art. I find it to be incredibly dull. I went in with an open mind. I left with knowledge that Lost In Translation is not soemthing I would toch with a barge pole.
GoodEnoughForMe
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Excellent movie.
Just saw The Departed. It was pretty good, but I don't think it's a super elite movie as some say.
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