Vivi you better take lots of over the top stupid pictures and post them here.

Keep your balls away from me.

First of all, I love Bill Murray. Almost every scene he is in, he is doing something funny. Sometimes it's subtle and sometimes it's just plain laugh-out-loud. I also love the style of the film. I feel like each scene gives me something interesting to look at. Really much of the movie is told through images, not dialogue. I love it when films show emotions and feelings through images and not just two characters talking. I think it's much more effective than having to spell things out for the audience.

Let's see, I love the music and the way it fits into each scene (remember the "sucking on my titties..." strip-bar scene? lol). I could go over every scene and tell you what I like about it but that would take too long. Lost in Translation is about two unhappy people who find comfort in one another, all the while appearing literally lost within the strange city of Tokyo, and figuratively lost because they cannot find direction in their lives. I think you have to be in the right mood to watch it. Everything needs to be quiet, the lights need to be low. It's a movie you need to pay attention to.

I can understand how some people wouldn't like the style of the film. It's pretty different from most other films, and if you were expecting something else going into it, you might get frustrated with the movie. I had no idea what to expect seeing it the first time, but I came away loving it. It's rare when I view a movie as a true work of art, but that's how I view LiT.

I went and saw it in theatres all hyped up that it was gonna be great, I guess I was expecting too much. I remember walking out with a feeling of "that was it!?!?!" It wasn't exactly a movie, I'd say it was more cinema, and those films are either hit or miss with me. I felt it to be 2 hours about nothing with a few comedic scenes by Bill Murray. Maybe had I rented it and just relaxed and saw it my view would have been more like yours, but I don't think I could bring myself to watch it again unless it was just on television or something.