it's like i'm looking for some answer

[aftertherockets]

So today got better. I drove down to College Park and spent the evening with my Stewbert. We went to Noodles (of course) and then rented a movie.

So, I need someone to tell me why exactly Lost in Translation is a good movie. Cause I really didn't like it, at all. I kept feeling like I was supposed to like it, but it was so boring. There was no real plot or any on-going thread to make me like the characters, and way too many pointless scenes of someone eating cereal or walking down the street. I get that it was supposed to be about this relationship between two misfits in a strange land, but it just didn't work for me. So if you liked it, please tell me why. Also, let me know how exactly it managed to keep your attention for the full two hours. :P

Since I didn't like that movie much, and neither did Stew, we saw fit to watch the South Park movie after it. Much much better. :P

I should go to bed. I have to give a tour at 1030 tomorrow. But before I do, here are my favorite lyrics of the day:


The Push Stars - Wild Irish Rose

They're closing down the farmer's market
And traffic's building down the lane
I'm an angry taxi driver's target
But that's okay
It's just the way he shakes his pain

Somedays my lover can't complete me
Sometimes my work cannot be done
Somedays I see my sun as setting
And I don't know, I don't know which way to run

And everytime I see you dance my Wild Irish Rose
I want to jump up on stage with you
I want to give you my clothes
And let the devil take my soul

The sign said "Live Exotic Dancers"
Not surprised I find my self inside
It's like I'm looking for some answer
For why my spirit's dead inside

And everytime I see you dance my Wild Irish Rose
I want to jump up on stage with you
I want to give you my clothes
And let the devil take my soul

And I never met my great grandfather
But I swear I saw his ghost last night
He looked just like he looked in pictures
Except he was not black and white

And everytime I see you dance my Wild Irish Rose
I want to jump up on stage with you
I want to give you my clothes
And let the devil take my soul

Comments

[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

Because it wasnt the traditional "romance" film. It was simply two people who were shoved into an unfamiliar territory - who met one another, and glommed on to each other for safety and familiarity. They knew they had a limited time, and so used the bond they had to keep themselves as grounded as they could given the circumstances.

Plus Bill Murray rules.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Well okay. I'll give you that Bill Murray rules. ;) And I understand that the movie wasn't a romance film in the traditional sense, I just felt like everything you said that made the movie good was established in the first half hour, and then there was almost an hour and a half of no plot or character development. I respect that they were trying to do something different, I just don't think they accomplished it as well as they could have.

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

I wasn't overly thrilled with it either. And it seemed especially slow near the beginning. Though I will admit that I liked it much, much more than another "everyone's favorite," Punch Drunk Love. Hated that one. Hated.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much exactly how I feel. I didn't really like Lost in Translation, but I really really really did not like Punch Drunk Love. It's one of the few movies where I've wished I could get my money back after viewing it. And the lost two hours of my life. :P

[alisatank.livejournal.com]

you know... i'm not sure either. there were some parts i liked about it, like when they first met and the conversation was all awkward, because it was how something would happen in real life - because hollywood conversation is usually so scripted.
but yes..... i didn't really get it either lol (oh and i fell asleep for about the last half hour hehe)

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I'm glad I'm not the only one. ;)

There were definitely parts about it that I liked, but mostly I couldn't get into it.

[egosomnio.livejournal.com]

I've been hearing a lot about the Push Stars recently, on the radio up here. They had a show at a club in Reading last night...
Okay, I've never heard of them before, and the radio didn't actually play any of their music while the DJs were talking about them...but are they Elvis, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix reincarnated? Because the radio stations up here certainly seem to think they're on that level...

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Um, no. I heard about them last year from a girl that lived in my suite. I think they're decent, but not great in any way. I love this song muchly, but mostly they seem to be a poppy kind of acoustic thing, the stuff that's been popular lately on the radio. Not really mind-blowing in any way. :P Also, I've never heard them on the radio here, that's strange.

[egosomnio.livejournal.com]

One of the Reading stations was having spots all week, "The Push Stars are coming to Reading!" And acting like I would have expected them to for, like, Ozzy. Except for how they weren't playing their songs, just raving about them coming to town. It really bothered me.
The bothering me thing might have something to do with the fact that the same station was completely ignoring the fact that Elton John was playing in Reading the same day. Now, I'm not going to pay good money to go see Elton John...but he's good, and famous. More well known than the Push Stars (which I actually thought was "Pushsters" until I saw it in print...). And probably a great deal more exciting.

[dramacomic.livejournal.com]

Lost in Translation... I dunno... I thought it was a little boring when I saw it, but then when I talked about it, I realized I had a lot to say about it. That may be why it's a good movie - cause when you see it you don't realize how much you actually get out of it until you think about it a little deeper. Most movies that have been released in the past... ummm 5 or so years don't look like any thought was put into them at all.

I'm not sure if that made sense

Plus, everyone raves about Bill Murray, and he was good, but I thought Scarlet Johansen was dead on, and she's younger than me!

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

I think Scarlett Johansson (or however you spell it. :P) is really cool, and she was great in this movie. I think she might also be younger than me, too.

What you said, that's kind of how I felt about the Hours. It was supposed to be this great movie, but I walked away not liking it, and then upon discussion of it I realized I had a lot to say about it. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood to give Lost in Translation a chance, but I just couldn't get into it, and I dont' really remember anything that happened in it.

[dramacomic.livejournal.com]

I never saw the Hours, but I read the book, which was very confusing at first but then got better. I would imagine the movie would be like that...

But of course, not everyone is going have the same taste in movies.