Well--typical boring Hollywood tripe!

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2007)

I wanted to like this film what with Apocalypse Now in my Top 5 and always liking to see offspring take up the mantle.
Can there be anything more Hollywood (ie tripe) than a beautiful young girl being attracted to an old Rich man? What did this "couple" have in common other than they were both married to people they were bored with and both were bored being in Japan? Can it be interesting that bored people might be interested in one another, or would that be too boring? I have never seen a philosophy major with so little insight/so little to say. Way too much of the film taken up with Karaoke singing==another big bore!
So--if you can't enjoy being rich in a country you have never seen before, you are made of presidential material. So boring, East Texas looks good. /// Bobbo.
Edit--just got to relook at this on confirmation of posting from IMDb. Why didn't I like this movie? As an "older gentleman" who has traveled, I tried to put myself in the place of Bill Murray. If I were in Japan to make $2Mill for an ad, would I use that in conversation?---Nooooo! Would I be there making 2 Mill?----Noooo! BUT its easy to see why Murray is interested in Johanson (right?). Now, what do women see in this woman's film????
And that made me think of that scene in Nip/Tuck were that guy approached a young woman in the bar and she said "I don't have any daddy issues, go "f*^%k-off." or close to it. Cracked me up!!!. Any "young" women out there relate to Mrs Coppola's interest in this film?
Perhaps more interest in the film would be present if it delved into why he bedded the older singer rather than the younger Johanson? and wasn't she just a bit too passive on finding that out? - - -and so forth. /// Bobbo.