The Heir of Coppola- A Hair of Coppola

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 2004)

Lost in Translation doesn't deserve to be on the nominees list of the Academy Awards. It is not a bad movie- but it is not a great movie or good movie either. It is a "watchable" movie when you want to kill time.
The writing and direction of the movie sucks big time. Sophia is just carrying the Coppola name, not the Coppola talent (I might be misspelling Coppola). This beautiful city of Tokyo, captured on film so miserably. Most people could do better with a camcorder. Bill Murray, is Bill Murray in the movie- which sucks because I had read somewhere along the lines of "Bill Murray gives an excellent performance." I'm sure he can play Bill Murray the best, nothing excellent about it. Nothing happens in the movie- two strangers in a strange town have a good time after finding each other- oooo...k- Not much of an original story Ms. Coppola. I also saw the documentary on the DVD of the movie. It shows how the movie was filmed- sometimes without permits- Film students in NYC get better footage without permits than this professional crew of LIT. Most of the film was done in a set "because of the noise" in Tokyo. I don't know, but if you are in an exotic towns- you need some exotic balls to capture the action on location. If they wanted to shoot on a set, why didn't they just shoot here in the U.S. and stop taking money away from American filmmakers. Sophia has pretty much portrayed japanese people as incredibly stupid as hell. Excuse me Ms. Sophia, but just cuz you can't understand the people doesn't mean that they are ridiculously unaware of what's going on.
The only thing great about the movie is how the movie sounds. Kudos to the sound engineer. If this movie wins an academy award in any category besides sound, I'd lose faith in the Academy. Peace out all.