Edited-Mah bad. It came out in '99.

Just out of curiosity, what did you put down before you edited it?

I know there have been numerious arguements over "getting" Lost in Translation but I never got to give my two cents... I saw it and I get it but not every subject and/or feeling makes an interesting movie. What it was going for it did reasonably well but it was BORING. And I'm a huge Bill Murray fan. Can't think of anything else he's ever done that I disliked and I've seen pretty much everything he's been in. Personally I think this film will be forgotten in 10 years but maybe I'm just being optimistic....

House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne and Dungeon Siege.

I didn't find it boring at all. I found it a lot like life. We have those points/spells in our life that are dull and uneventful. On the film, Bob was bored and uneventful. It isn't until he meets Charlotte that he finds his catalyst to 'live' again.

I relate so much to this film and to the character of Charlotte (maybe that is why I love it so much). I am basically the male version of her character. I am in that particular time in my life (around her age) that I have no clue on what is ahead of me. I would go on, but that would be too personal - just like this film: I felt I was intruding on these two people and I shouldn't have been doing that.

Even though it's not my favorite movie (again, that would be ESotSM, although LiT is up there), it is without a doubt the one DVD that I own that gets the most play time. It's a film that I can put in and have it just be playing in the background while I'm doing something else, and at any point I look over at the TV, it captures me and I can really get into whatever scene is on. Its a film that I really love to watch as I'm going to sleep. Not because it bores me, far from it. It's a very, very relaxing watch for me. I just really love the overall feel of the flick. It does a great job of getting across the point of "fish out of water" to the viewer, more than most other films. It says so much about relationships, for both the young and the older crowd. It's just a really thick, multi-layered film.

I'm not really one to look too much into what I'm watching, but I just can't help but do so with LiT. For some reason, the film just really speaks to me, both on the visual and emotional levels.

And even though it's not a comedy, the comedic lines and elements the film does present, are fantastic. It actually has one of the funniest lines from any movie that I've seen in years. Right after Bob notices the whiskey he is drinking for the pictures is really tea:

Japanese photographer: "I need more mysterious and, uh--"

Bob: "More mysterious. Yeah. I'll just try to think, 'Where the hell's the whiskey?'"

The following also cracked me up:

*Japanese man speaks a lot*

Japanese translator: "Right side, and, uh, with intensity. Ok?"

Bob: "Is that everything? I mean, it seemed like he said quite a bit more than that."

It hasn't lost any of its bloom, or been "forgotten" --- but simply you can't keep talking about the movie ad nauseum every day for years. No movie holds up that way.


I'm not saying Million Dollar Baby won't be a classic (I'd put my votes on Mystic River). But winning Academy Awards doesn't guarantee anything. When was the last time anyone here talked about The Last Emperor?

Again not saying that LiT doesn't achieve what it's going for. I just find it boring and can't stand people telling me or others that they don'd "get it". Oh I got it. I just think it sucked.

The Passion of the Christ
Fahrenheit 9/11
Lord of the Rings

I don't particulary like any of those movies all that much but I'm pretty positive they'll be talked about for years and years to come. I can't think of any other movies released in the last five years that stand out like these.

As for Kill Bill (which I love), I agree it will be remembered if for nothing else because of the fact that Tarantino said he would make another one 15 years from now. Anticipation!

I don't really know I haven't seen enough in 2000-2005 to really comment. Both George Washington and All the Real Girls are important films to me though. I'd like to hope sometime people will look back and see the importance of George Washington in how it attempts to handle child acting. I have been working with children in videos for some classes I take and children just have this complete honesty about them when they are not being overly swayed on what to say or do, what they believe they know and how they say it is refreshingly wonderful and I thank George Washington for what it did for me.