I didn't lurve Lost in Translation but I enjoyed it and parts of it blew me away. The t-shirt is pretty awesome. I was about to say that Sophia Coppola rubs me the right way but then I remembered that Marie Antoinette didn't really do it for me. Kirsten Dunst was great and I loved the shoe porn (Chucks cameo!) but other than that I was pretty meh. I'm trying to keep an open mind about Somewhere.
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Laga - Jul 13, 2010 11:54:01 am PDT #9687 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2010 11:58:12 am PDT #9688 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I have a weakness for stories about strangers' lives intersecting
I do, too (go on, act surprised), but I guess what tips my liking/disliking one way or the other is whether I like the characters. And, now that I think about it, I didn't exactly *like* the characters in LiT, but I really identified with them.
But Magnolia -- not a single character in that movie was likable to me. (Frankly, Sigourney Weaver makes a much MUCH better "inspirational speaker" than Tom Cruise does [in Jeffrey].)
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2010 12:05:26 pm PDT #9689 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I really can't remember why I loved it so much now. I don't know how much I liked the characters, but at the end of the movie, I felt like I'd had an amazing experience. Kind of like how I felt after Crash, actually.
Atropa - Jul 13, 2010 12:08:47 pm PDT #9690 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I remembered that Marie Antoinette didn't really do it for me. Kirsten Dunst was great and I loved the shoe porn (Chucks cameo!) but other than that I was pretty meh.
IT IS ALL ABOUT PRETTY DRESSES AND CAKE AND SHOES. IT IS WONDERFUL.
Okay, yeah, there's a plot in there, too.
Gris - Jul 13, 2010 12:55:53 pm PDT #9691 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Love Lost in Translation. Might be my favorite movie ever. Hate Magnolia. Also quite liked Marie Antoinette but not in a memorable way.
P.M. Marc - Jul 13, 2010 12:57:00 pm PDT #9692 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Magnolia had me in stitches. I do not think that was the intent.
BUT WE ALL LAUGHED.
Amy - Jul 13, 2010 1:06:48 pm PDT #9693 of 30000
Because books.
No one appreciates a good rain of frogs anymore. Sniff.
t /sarcasm
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2010 1:07:36 pm PDT #9694 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
BUT WE ALL LAUGHED.
Like, WHEN THE DEAD MAN SANG?!?
I mean, that wasn't the part I hated most, but it does stand out as making me gnash my teeth.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2010 1:24:10 pm PDT #9695 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hated Lost In Translation. Those people were so unsympathetic to me. But then again, I love the isolation of a new country.
Hated Magnolia too.
Jessica - Jul 13, 2010 1:35:01 pm PDT #9696 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
there there, Magnolia. Ignore them. They just don't understand you the way I do...