Lost in Translation, Last Samurai, Day after Tomorrow

Post #180,611 by bepatient 10/23/04 1:24:23 PM Reply	Lost in Translation, Last Samurai, Day after Tomorrow Last Samurai - Not bad for a Tom Cruise ego trip movie. Interesting storyline, good dash of eastern mysticism but not too much...dramatic "get the bad guys who should eat your lunch" ending. 3.5 to 4 stars out of 5. Lost in Translation - Ms Coppola's debut was filmed on a shoestring and written for Bill Murray, who deserved the nomination for his performance. It was well done. Story is definitely "date material" but handled well. There was no real effective way to end the story...so its hard to say the ending disappointed...though it did for me. 4 of 5 though. This is cinema. Day After Tomorrow. - Well I like watching NY get tidal waved almost as much as I liked seeing Paris get whacked by a meteor in the last "the end is near" melodrama. Effects make it worth the rental...I'm glad I didn't pay 8.50 for it. 2.5 of 5 (without effects its a .5...so if you have a little TV...don't bother) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #180,613 by pwhysall 10/23/04 1:32:16 PM Reply	DaT Saw it at the flicks, one-line review: NYC gets drowned then frozen, woo! Cue long tedious moralising quest, !woo Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home]
Post #180,686 by cforde 10/23/04 10:30:59 PM Reply	Lost in the Translation My wife and I rented that a couple weeks, or months ago. We turned it off about half way through 'cause it was boring and pointless and going nowhere. Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #180,688 by Another Scott 10/23/04 10:36:39 PM Reply	Hmm. We really enjoyed it. It was nothing like the advertisements (that tried to make it look like an SNL comedy skit). But when we realized that it wasn't going to be like that, we got into it and really enjoyed it. Did you see him in "The Razor's Edge"? I thought Murry was good in that too. Different strokes, I guess. Cheers, Scott.
Post #180,693 by deSitter 10/23/04 10:59:16 PM Reply	Re: Hmm. We really enjoyed it. "Groundhog Day" is a funny and surprisingly deep movie. He's great there as well. He has a hilarious side role as Bunny Breckenridge in "Ed Wood" (one of my favorite movies). -drl
Post #180,723 by cforde 10/24/04 1:50:30 AM Reply	Groundhog Day I love that movie. It was a great concept and extremely well done. Another fun movie is What About Bob. A deep movie if you don't look too closely. The ending is a little too Hollywoodish & contrived though. Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #180,726 by deSitter 10/24/04 2:07:14 AM Reply	Re: Groundhog Day I thought GD was profound - the message is, you can't make deals with Fate or God, you can't buy your way out of self-indulgence by service and exterior atonement - something the modern world should learn. You atone only by being a mensch, simply that and nothing else. Your only real duty is to be right with God - the rest follows almost automatically. I compare it to "A Christmas Carol". Dickens seems to think that fear and loathing of damnation is the origin of morality. The moral climate of CC is repugnant in the extreme. (I admit to detesting Dickens.) (A similar inversion can be found in the films "Forest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction" - the first is morally bankrupt in its false innocence, while the second reveals a spiritual message beneath its grimy exterior.) -drl
Post #180,769 by Ashton 10/24/04 9:13:33 PM Reply	Re: Groundhog Day One of very few films of past decade or so I deemed worth buying. Decidedly metaphysical; one can make as much of it as.. er, one Can. He's a real Actor; maybe it helps too, that he's not pretty (?)
Post #180,724 by cforde 10/24/04 1:51:27 AM Reply	haven't seen that one Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #180,692 by deSitter 10/23/04 10:58:44 PM Reply	Re: Lost in the Translation I didn't think so - it was nice to see two adults reach out to each other without instantly fumbling with their underwear. They talked to each other - what a concept. -drl
Post #180,733 by andread 10/24/04 9:32:21 AM Reply	Re: Lost in the Translation -- Hated It it was like Casablanca, if Ilsa and Rick had never had Paris A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In]
Post #180,734 by deSitter 10/24/04 9:51:02 AM Reply	?? It wasn't a romance - it was an encounter of lonely people who have more on their minds than orgasms. Of course it would never succeed here. -drl
Post #180,746 by bepatient 10/24/04 12:46:05 PM Reply	I would expect an either/or with it. Its one of those films that you will either get or not. If you don't get it (not intellectually like that...but more just an understanding of where Sophia was going with it) then it would be for that person a bad (nay terrible) movie. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #180,768 by Ashton 10/24/04 9:07:49 PM Reply	Uh huh. I saw it as a Rorschak too, of what both were fleeing from (same things, different things and in their different styles). That approach can make expressions and emotions clearer than the usual tack - just showing the 'attractions'. I also found it a welcome antidote for the (entire genre) Action flics, none of which I'll watch for-free. Of course! it wouldn't score big-$$ in the USA - hell, it was about love! sans gyne exam titillations.
Post #180,967 by rcareaga 10/25/04 10:53:46 PM Reply	Re: Lost in Translation, Last Samurai, Day after Tomorrow Last Samurai (seen in theatre, SO having won coin toss): Negligible. Why not watch a real samurai flick? —Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Hidden Fortress, Samurai Trilogy, all available in nice Criterion editions any one of which would show up the Cruise vehicle for the kleenex it was. Lost in Translation: Ashton's terse favorable review is seconded. Day After Tomorrow (seen at home late last week, SO having been permitted to visit local video store w/o adult supervision): Beneath contempt. One good scene of LA TV newsman being whacked by tornado-enhanced billboard. Will arrange following PowerBall victory to buy up all film prints and burn these to support human life come the abrupt ice age. cordially, Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil?
Post #180,970 by Another Scott 10/25/04 11:16:00 PM 10/25/04 11:19:12 PM Reply	(Nothing to see.) I said there was nothing to see! Why are you reading this! Check the Suggestions Forum! :-) Edited by Another Scott Oct. 25, 2004, 11:17:11 PM EDT Edited by Another Scott Oct. 25, 2004, 11:19:12 PM EDT Expand All History
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Post #180,975 by FuManChu 10/26/04 12:50:29 AM Reply	You have seen Japanese movies w/o Toshiro Mifune, yes? Howzabout Zatoichi for a start?
Post #180,989 by rcareaga 10/26/04 8:58:22 AM Reply	They made Japanese movies w/o Toshiro Mifune??

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