Lost in quaaludes

Rating: 3/10 (2 April 2004)

I always like Bill Murray movies -- I really really do. Except this one.
Boring. Boring. I mean it. Boring.
Here is the *entire* plot. Older, jaded rich advertising dude hangs around in Tokyo hotel. Younger woman, whose husband professes to love her but is always gone, hangs around in Tokyo hotel. They keep bumping into each other (except in bed). Finally ... nothing.
So what makes this an eight for so many people? I'll have to try to work that out after writing this. Is it the urban allure of Tokyo? Is it because a Coppola made it? Is the Paris Hilton effect? Is it because an older married guy and a younger married woman are hanging out together? Gosh, *that* would have been exciting ... to the Hayes commission!
Maybe it's the elaborate tease. Or the sweet sweetness and innocence. Uh huh. Gosh, that's what TV's all about, isn't it? Berry berry Brady? Yeah that has to be it. The internet-porn saturated population (US) is still dying for real romance. Wow, move over Nelson & Eddy.
Strap on your retropack, John Glenn. Pay no attention to the flames on the way down.