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Film What's the Last Film You Saw? v. Tell Us What You Thought!

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I finally got around to watching Lost in Translation . . . and stopped halfway through.

I tried. I really did.

It just felt entirely too . . . contrived and pseudo-intellectual? And this is coming from a Woody Allen fan! I can't really say why I couldn't finish it. Perhaps it was one of those films that I'm watching at the wrong time in my life; it's happened before. I just couldn't stomach it, the try-hardness was too strong.
 
The Daytrippers

this movie is fun. i watched because it is a parker posey movie that didn't look unbearably stupid -- she's in quite the variety of films. she's not the main character. she's a main character and not a bad one. i thought i was going to dislike the main character because of the actress playing her. i didn't.

top tier films do risk trying. this movie does not. it just goes. that might be the one aspect of it that is above fun. it's embracing its form by acknowledging that its audience serial watches this stuff and exposition isn't necessary. the day starts and we're on board. a great film to watch if you're feeling down. it's upbeat about what makes people sad. neither too silly nor too heavy. unfortunately it's a forgotten 90s film and the dvd only had a fullscreen copy.
 
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Max Power said:
I finally got around to watching Lost in Translation . . . and stopped halfway through.

I tried. I really did.

It just felt entirely too . . . contrived and pseudo-intellectual?
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The personal contrivances required to fit into the culture of Tokyo and the failed pseudo-intellectual attempts at understanding the world (e.g., the tapes) are what was shared. That was how they connected, i.e. communications "lost in translation." Or are you talking of these things at the level of writing, direction, etc., because I could see how one might conflate the two (not that you did, just putting it out there)?
 
psood0nym said:
The personal contrivances required to fit into the culture of Tokyo and the failed pseudo-intellectual attempts at understanding the world (e.g., the tapes) are what was shared. That was how they connected, i.e. communications "lost in translation." Or are you talking of these things at the level of writing, direction, etc., because I could see how one might conflate the two (not that you did, just putting it out there)?
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I'm speaking of the latter. I'm a fan of both Murray & Scarlett. Everything else just wasn't doing it for me.
 
Into my horror movies mood again. I watched Apt 143 last night and now I am bout to watch 13/13/13. Thank God for Netflix!
 
Max Power said:
I finally got around to watching Lost in Translation . . . and stopped halfway through.

I tried. I really did.
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I've tried to watch this movie at least three times and stopped halfway - which is weird cos I love Bill Murray, I love scotch, and I love looking at ScarJo. But ya, couldn't do it.

Just watched Spirited Away for the first time. I'd been putting his one off for a while, probably on account of my aversion to Japanese anime. But then half a year back I heard a great review and synopsis of The Wind Rises (I think that's the title at least, and that got me interested in this film maker's work. So I am working my way toward that one. Anyway, I loved the Through the Looking Glass style narrative and the characters - Sen (or whatever her name actually is) has a lot of heart, and despite the appearance of some typical kid movie tropes, I found it unlike anything else I've seen in that format.

Now I'm waiting for my roommate 'cos we gonna watch Deerhunter - which I've also never seen. Today I say yes to comfort.
 
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motherofearth said:
Now I'm waiting for my roommate 'cos we gonna watch Deerhunter - which I've also never seen. Today I say yes to comfort.
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Load another round in the chamber and pray.


Maya said:
Yes I have seen thin red line and Saving Private Ryan. Did you like Letters from Iwo Jima? Jarheads?
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On the 4th, I watched Letters From Iwo Jima since Maya listed it among these films. It was really good, and I'm glad I watched it. I think it's the first war movie I've ever seen from the "enemies" perspective. (I used quotation marks there since they're now our friends). It was a moving story.

I had known that Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers were both made in 2006 and both about Iwo Jima, but I didn't realize they were companion pieces both directed by Clint Eastwood. Letters shows the battle from the Japanese perspective. Flags shows from the American perspective, but is primarily about the men who hoisted the flag on Iwo Jima which became an iconic picture of US victory (even though the picture was taken on the 5th day of a battle which lasted 35 days).

I thought Letters was better, and it is ranked higher on IMDB, but they were both good and I'm glad I watched both. I've heard the order that you watch doesn't matter, but I'm glad I watched Letters first since some places that were mentioned in Flags were more detailed in Letters, so I had a better understanding of what they were talking about in Flags.
 
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Saving Private Ryan is overrated anyways.
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Its a bit heavy handed and overtly American, like some gross Cadillac. And not really political, which is boring. The script is subpar and the plot is basically a vehicle for Spielberg to milk that emotional WWII baggage that most Westerners feel, Boomer generation et al. Saving Private Ryan is a very lukewarm affair, there's no moral ambiguity. Still as an action war movie, its entertaining in its largesse.

The Grey Zone and Slaughterhouse-Five are great remedies for the above.
 
I can't believe Transformers is top of the box office. I watched a review. They said it was worse than a piece of shit. Maybe marginally better than The Room. Maybe not.
 
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