Have you seen Girl With A Pearl Earring??? I think Scarlett Johansson is a FANTASTIC actress. Unlike Kirsten Dunst.

OMG, can you imagine Kirsten Dunst as Charlotte??? she would've taken away from the film in the same way she did with Marie Antoinette.

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i adore the subtelties of this movie. character reactions, little hints to how they feel. the beauty that surrounds them and their connection being like a tiny glimmer that makes their feeling of being stuck bearable. i like that the end of the movie shows hope isnt lost, and its not exactly the hope for change but the hope that they might become settled and happy within their circumstances without major change. if this film ended any other way i wouldn't have liked it so much, haha as in wouldnt have watched it over and over and over and over.

i don't know, putting in to words how i feel about this movie is hard and i haven't done a very good job at it, but i've never connected with a film or book more in my life and i think that is because it is so real and raw in the emotions and the 'story'. like someone said there is no real start and end and that this is just a life-changing part of their lives. that is important and far more real (at least to me) than your traditional story, its like sofia coppola acheived a film that reveals the part of life which dosen't really get spoken about but it so familiar and significant.

god damn, im gushing.

I agree but I disagree with the it's more real than your traditional story, no it's not.

I watched it on channel 4 the other night, but i just couldnt really get into it
I liked the ending though

i didnt really like lost in translation]

i didnt really get it

definately over rated

i loved this film. i might watch it again. it's just very relaxing. i don't think it's deep but it's very goodlooking and the soundtrack is smashing. my favorite part was when scarlet fell asleep and bill carries her to the room. "sometimes" by mbv just made it dreamier.

Fuck yeah, and ending with Just Like Honey

Add that to Marie Antoinette's display of The Cure, Siouxsie, and Bow Wow Wow's I want Candy... This woman knows how important good music can add to a scene.

i dont understand people that think action, drama and constant plot twists make a great film. not always. sure die hard was great but not all films have to be like that. why does everything have to be in your face? i liked how subtle and mellow lost in translation was. its just calm. and you know what the feeling is supposed to be.

There's subtle and mellow, and then there's dead.

I think Sofia Coppola has gotten by with film-school level features thanks to her name, and to little else. Lost in Translation was an overrated bore. The presence of Bill Murray was the only thing that made it bearable for me.

A good filmmaker could have made something out of this material, oblique as it was, but that director is not Sofia Coppola.

but i loved it, and plenty of people do.
i mean, we're not just people who go for overrated stuff.
i would have happily hated lost in translation so that i could spite my friend, but i really did like it.

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I love Lost In Translation, and visually I adore Marie Antoinette and even though I think they are overall good work I think Sofia is nothing without the Coppola surname, and she just wouldn't have made it.

Have you seen the making off of her movies??? it's like a little spoiled girl that has the world at her feet becaause of daddy, and he's always there!!!!!!!!!!! He's like supervising everything, making sure the crew works properly, it's like bitch do it yourself! and have you seen her directions??? it's all fun and games, like a dollhouse for daddy's little girl, it's like she basically doesn't do anything.

I think she owes everything to being a Coppola. Give me Jane Campion, now that's a motherfucking female director.

I just watched Marie Antoinette on DVD last night. i was expecting to hate it from all the bad reviews but i actually watched the entire film and came out kind of liking it at the end...Sofia Coppola said she was setting out to do an "impressionistic" vision of that time in Versailles and i think she succeeded in doing just that. the visuals were absolutely amazing and the colors, design, costumes, everything was just eye candy to the max. however it did lack depth and the story was a bit bland, it didn't make me feel much, as opposed to something like Amadeus which is a fucking great movie, a period peice with the acting and drama to back it all up....
but here's my deconstruction of Sofia..as far as her other movies go, i think that Coppola is a bit of a conundrum because she makes movies that are extremely girly with a soft and feminine sensibilty, blah blah yet all of her movies are specifically anti-feminist. Virgin Suicides needs no explanation. (young pretty blonde girls offing themselves is romantic...?) Lost in Translation being this love story between a girl in her twenties and a much older man, like a Daddy figure, whatever . the movie begins of a close up of Johannsen's ass in pink panties. that kinda sets the tone of the film. i dunno...i still liked that movie for one reason or another. i could relate to the experience of being in a foreign place and connecting with someone for a brief time, then saying goodbye and knowing you will never see them again. and yeah, i cried at the end when they said good bye. but there was this wierd tinge of racism the way she portrayed the Japanese as SO foreign and unintelligible, etc. i have spent time in Japan and i found that pretty much all of the people i met there could speak really good english and were eager to talk to me and make my experience there a good one.
ps. how horrible was Sofia Coppola in Godfather III?????? JEEZUS.

I agree. I never saw her on Godfather III.

I just think that Marie Antoinette's story is very deep and dramatic and could've been made into a much more compelling and dramatic movie. Sure, that was not what she was going for, but the movie fetl like wasted potential.