Lost in Translation

[Chest Rockwell]

modage, I've only seen CQ once and am prepared to see it again, but I was very disappointed and annoyed; it's so contemporary-hipster-boy-movie, very one-dimensional and thin, and if that well-worn phrase "self-indulgent" applies to anything... It seems so tired and shallow compared to Sophia's films, in my opinion. I think there is both more thematic depth and more cinematographic beauty in her films than there is in CQ.

Finally! Someone understands me. But like godardian I too have seen it only once, and would be willing to revisit it.

haha, it would be a deal, but i know that you would hate cq for the same reasons. and i don't think there's anybody out there who would go to the lengths it would take to get me to see auto focus again

Why no love for Auto focus?
I'm a fan of Auto Focus, as well...perhaps godardian and I are distant cousins?

[Henry Hill]

as far as roman and sofia are concerned, i think they have proven that regardless of their heritage they are fucking great filmmakers. whether they got in the door because of their dad or not is beside the point. roman needs to make another film ASAP!

[soixante]

CQ was a bore -- at least the first half of it.  I turned it off half-way through.  Didn't Austin Powers cover this terrain already?

[pete]

as far as roman and sofia are concerned, i think they have proven that regardless of their heritage they are fucking great filmmakers. whether they got in the door because of their dad or not is beside the point. roman needs to make another film ASAP!

you can't declare that when people are still in the middle of arguing over Roman's career, man.  That's called "jumping to the conclusion."

[Ravi]

CQ was a bore -- at least the first half of it.  I turned it off half-way through.  Didn't Austin Powers cover this terrain already?

I didn't turn it off, but I had to struggle not to.  I didn't find anything particularly interesting in it.

[modage]

CQ was a bore -- at least the first half of it.  I turned it off half-way through.  Didn't Austin Powers cover this terrain already?

i dont think so.

[Weird. Oh]

haha, it would be a deal, but i know that you would hate cq for the same reasons. and i don't think there's anybody out there who would go to the lengths it would take to get me to see auto focus again

Why no love for Auto focus?
I'm a fan of Auto Focus, as well...perhaps godardian and I are distant cousins?

I really liked Auto Focus and Kinear's potrayal of Bob Crane. Maybe its because I used to watch Hogan's Heroes. It was a really interesting depiction of his hidden lifestyle and mysterious murder.


Anyhoo, I was flipping through the tv and I saw this show with this guy saying how Lost In Translation shouldn't win any awards because of its racist depiction of the Japanese culture. The web site they were touting was lost-in-racism.org if you wanna check it out. The guy was saying it was really racist because of the way the Japanese were shown as a typical L's with R's and stuff like that.

I just don't understand why people can't read into context of the film. I mean Bob Harris did see them that way and perhaps was racist and that was the point. He didn't wanna be there and he looked at the Japanese like this. I thought Sofia did a great job in making the characters real and not PC. I read somewhere that Sofia actually lived in Japan for several years so I doubt she's racist.

[Chest Rockwell]

I totally agree with you, wierdo.

But that website is so stupid! They're trying to petition the Academy not to vote for Lost in Translation because it's racist, like they'd really care. And besides, it really isn't racist, in my opinion.

[Pubrick]

let's start that again.

[Chest Rockwell]

let's start that again.

Good point. I'm editing my post.

[Myxo]

I assume there is no way to avoid the five minutes of previews at the beginning of this disc? I tried moving forward chapters and hitting menu. Neither worked.

Very lame that they at least don't give viewers a choice to bypass them.

[Chest Rockwell]

I assume there is no way to avoid the five minutes of previews at the beginning of this disc? I tried moving forward chapters and hitting menu. Neither worked.

Very lame that they at least don't give viewers a choice to bypass them.

Please Fast Forward

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[meatball]

Hollywood Elsewhere (moviepoopshoot.com)

Japanese critics have resoundingly agreed with my view, which I articulated last fall, that Lost in Translation peddles crude Japanese stereotypes. Sofia Coppola's quasi-comedy has just opened in Japan and drawn a good amoutn of flack. Critic Yoshiro Tsuchiya of Yomiuri Shimbun called "Sofia's view of Japan is outrageously biased and banal....[with] all the Japanese characters portrayed only smiling or bowing."

In Asahi Shimbun, another major Tokyo daily, writer Kotaro Sawaki said he "felt unusual revulsion against this movie," adding that "all the Japanese are consistently portrayed as foolish. But the movie fails to point out that what appears to be foolish mirrors the viewer's own foolishness." Japanese musician Kiku Day, writing in London's DailyGuardian, said the film's "caricatures play to longstanding American prejudice about Japan...

[Chest Rockwell]

let's start that again.

[Raikus]

Japanese musician Kiku Day, writing in London's DailyGuardian, said the film's "caricatures play to longstanding American prejudice about Japan...

What that all Japanese are friendly and smiling? Must suck to be stuck with that.