Lost in Translation

Pros: great acting, stunning visuals, subtle story
Cons: some people won't "get" it

No one knows for sure what triggers a mid-life crisis. There just comes a point in someone’s life when they look upon what they’ve done with their life and suddenly they aren’t satisfied. In women, it often happens younger than men and has more to do ...

Pros: Murray, Johansson, depth of characters, simplicity of story
Cons: None

Big loud blockbusters are great fun. Lots of action, larger than life characters, exciting special effects. Also generally entirely forgettable the moment I leave the theater. It’s the small, quiet movies that are far more likely to stay with me, ...

Pros: Bill Murray's best work; Scarlett Johansson's expressiveness; script, direction, cinematography
Cons: Only if you require a film to have a very happy ending

One of the biggest breaks Bill Murray has received in his film career was his supporting role in "Rushmore." The wise-cracking, smart-alecky persona that had served him so well during the eighties and nineties had worn noticeably thin after "Groundhog ...

Pros: Bill Murray, Tokyo
Cons: writing, editing, stereotypes, character development (other than Murray's), contrived/anemic plot

Lost in Translation (2003, written and directed by Sofia Coppola) has an outstanding performance by Bill Murray and some interesting Tokyo locations. In that Murray would seem to have some personal insights into being a movie star in an alien location ...

Pros: Of the people, by the people and for the people.
Cons: Yeah.

I still recall the first time I heard Kevin Spacey say those words. "And I can't feel anything but gratitude in my stupid little life." And while I kind of got the gist of it, I couldn't help but feel an emptiness. It's as if I were supposed to ...

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As an individual with a great love of movies; some say too great a love but that's besides the point, I make it a point to see as many different films as possible. I stress the word different because each year a lot of various films come out, and ...

Pros: Um... Bill Murray is pretty good...
Cons: .... there's no plot, awful editing and photography, wafer thin characters.

Bill Murray stars as a film star down on his luck and reduced to doing corny adverts in Japan. After 25 years of marriage the love’s gone out of it, he can’t sleep, and is bored with his life. Scarlett Johansson has been married 2 years, just ...

Pros: Bill Murray, some of the beautiful Japanese scenery
Cons: where was the character development?, infidelity=Oscar?..apparently, writing seemed unfinished

Lost In Translation is the story of two people unhappy with in their lives, who cross paths in Tokyo, Japan. Bill Murray plays Bob Harris, a famous movie star (what a stretch) who in the twighlight of his career, has turned to Japanese ...

Pros: some might say Murray
Cons: plot, characters, everything else

A couple months ago, one of my friends and I were finally able to get together for the first time since I arrived back in Florida. Between finding babysitters, getting an attached boyfriend to leave us alone for a night and skirting around work ...

Pros: captures lonely in a funny, sad fashion.
Cons: some will find it slow (and they will be beaten up)

Loneliness is perhaps the most universal of all emotions. Though the romantic among us might suggest that love is more universal, deep down even they must be aware that it's a whole lot easier to find yourself lonely than it is to fall in love. Loneline ...

Pros: Murray and Johansson, the economy of Coppola's script and direction
Cons: Some minor technical glitches, no real story to hang your hat on

"Lost in Translation" -- Sofia Coppola's ode to Tokyo, friendship, and Bill Murray's sad clown face -- begins with a shot of a young woman's bum. The bum lies on its side, and is covered only by a pair of diaphanous pink panties. It wriggles around mome ...

Pros: many
Cons: few

Cogitated and authored from what seems to ostensibly be a personal peregrination experienced through the mildly infamous child of nepotism-cum-director/rock-sta r-director’s wife Sofia Coppola’s own sense of place in relation to her slight status of ...

Pros: Lovely setting, sympathetic characters, genuinely moving; Bill Murray is my new hero.
Cons: Low on plot (if that's the sort of thing that bothers you).

For a long, long time, Bill Murray more or less slipped under my radar. If I thought of him at all (and I rarely did), it was as “that guy from ‘Groundhog Day.’” Even after seeing him in “Rushmore,” I continued to dismiss him. He’s not youthful, lithe, ...

Pros: Murray, Johansson, their interaction, and the mis-en-scene of a Japanese Hilton catering to Westerners.
Cons: Film is perhaps too cool for its own good, but it will appeal to women.

Many of us, by now, have had the experience of flying into some far city. We are a bit bleary-eyed and out-of-synch. A cold blast, or warm breeze, of foreign air strikes us as we alight. People hurry by us. We must find a taxi or a shuttle. We are ...

Pros: A Beautiful, Moving Masterpiece from Sofia Coppola w/ Strong Performances from Murray & Johansson.
Cons: None.

"Listen to the girl as she takes on half the world. Moving up and so alive. In her honey-dripping beehive, beehive, it's good, so good, it's so good, so good. Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I can do. For you, I'll be your plastic toy; ...