LOST IN TRANSLATION

Guy’s ...nice...

We watched this cause we wanted to see something with Bill Murray. It also helped that Girl hadn’t seen this movie either. I think Murray is one of the funniest people alive. Sometimes people get duller with age (Akroyd, Carrey). Not Murray. Wes Anderson knows this and puts him in about everything. Here in in this movie he shows that he’s a master of balancing serious acting and a phenomenal comedian. When it comes to Scarlett, I feel that this is her best part to date and she’ll probably not do anything better. She’s just natural and great.

Sofia Coppola, I envy her career and the fact that she gets to do these these types of films. I think she would have had to start somewhere else if Francis wasn’t her daddy. Luckily for both of them she can deliver.

“Lost in Translation” gives you a good feeling all over, even the second and third viewing. It’s just a great story about two people that are lost and finds a person that can shine a light into their dark little world.

Guy’s Rating: A gem.

Girl’s just okay...

I think this movie had been built up from all the praise that my expectations were just too high. Although I agree with Guy that Scarlett and Murray both create outstanding performances in this film, somehow I wasn’t as riveted as everyone said I would be when I watched it.

I think this was because in the end I still wondered whether or not these two characters were rejuvenated enough from the small encounter with this other person to carry on with their ordinary lives in a happy manner. The ending was definitely appropriate - I didn’t want them to run away together - but it still left me wondering with a bad feeling that the small happiness they gained in Japan would eventually go out and they’d become lost again. It just seemed inevitable.

Girl’s rating: I went without watching it for seven years and I was fine.