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Yes, I saw Lost in Translation. And naturally this is just my opinion...but there wasnt much of a story. I think the film is cute...i really enjoyed the relationship that developed between the two main characters...but aside from connecting with those 2, nothing else really happens. The filmmakers try over and over to illustrate how alienated the characters feel...so much so that it becomes one of the main focuses of the film. But nothing developes of this. I figured after 2 hours of the same one note joke being played over and over, something would actually HAPPEN. But alas, that's not what Lost in Translation is about. And I suppose that's ultimately my problem with it. I think it ended beautifully, and the ideas were very nice, but in the end, sitting through a 2 hour movie where nothing happens just doesn't make me keen on calling it "great." I think it would have made for a fantastic short film. Just my 2 cents.

Sparks

...it wasnt that long but whatever.

None of Peter Jackson's shortcomings as a director were remedied in the LOTR trilogy.

Everything that was wrong with his other movies was wrong in this one, except that he had a lot of actors and was able to execute the proper way of compositing digital effects onto the original shots.

LOTR will go the way many epics have in the past: win tons of awards, fawn over the creative team, and give them bigger movies that they will mess up.

I mean look at Ben-Hur. It was lauded and awarded, and actually directed by a very capable man. Yet it hardly makes anyone's personal top ten list or even top twenty, and I know lots of people that haven't seen it. LOTR is a few bars under Ben-Hur. No one will care by 2010.

That's a silly retort, BigBudget. The movie is an hour and 40 minutes long. Excuse me if I miscalculated, I only saw it once. Still doesn't change my opinion. Maybe I missed something though...that's always a possibility...that I overlooked some hidden layer or something. Instead of correcting me on the running time of the film, maybe you could tell me what was so great about it. I'm always up for some re-education- and I mean that sincerely.

Sparks

Lost in Translation felt like 'forever'. So what if it's only 1:40 - it felt like an eternity. It just didn't want to end!

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Originally posted by MagnusCaput:
I think a lot of you guys need to show a little more respect. The fact that you say lord of the rings is a piece of crap is ignorent. I think that it will definetly be around in ten years and people will look back on it and think wow, what a great trilogy. It's the great epic of our time, the (origional) star wars if you will. After all, they are some of the best selling books of all time, not far behind the bible.

And as far as cold mountian goes, if you can't appriciate Renee Zelwegger's performance in that then you don't know a whole lot about acting. Sure it is a part that will turn the heads of most awards judges but, as soon as I saw that movie I thought he definetly deserved a nomination.

I think a lot of you guys that are on here just start trash talking, thinking that your cinema's savior even though your still in high school and have only shot a couple movies on your parents digital camera. Quite honestly it makes it annoying to get on the message board and listen to the streams of pretentious crap. Sure every one is entitled to their own opinion but try to back it up with some reasons other than, it sucks with thirteen exclaimation points after it. For those of you not in college, some other serious program or the industy. I think once you get further into the filmmaking industry you'll realize that theres a lot of talented people out there and to make money in this BUSINESS some things need to be compromised, because if you won't there are probably those who will. So come up with something really great, or else to stay afloat you'll have to make some sacrifices with your work....not that I really even know yet, I prefer to remain pretty humble.

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I agree 100%

I don't think Lost in Translation nor Master and Commander are films of the year personally. Return of the King yes and Mystic River yes. I would even say The Last Samuri yes. All three of those are 10 fold over LIT and MAC

What does Studentfilms.com mean to you?

Also to whomever said LOTR's will be forgotten in 20 years. I highly doubt it, it's the Star Wars of this generation.

What does Studentfilms.com mean to you?

i agree 100% with titus.... except i really didn't like the last samuari enough to call it a film of the year

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Last Samurai was a cool movie but had a ****ty score. I thought the score was a bit heavy handed in the beginning: "Oh, let's play 'traditional oriental' music for the Japanese guy, you know maybe rip something off from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3." And it was more of a Glory (I guess) or Patriot with samurai than an actual samurai movie. I'll still buy the DVD but the movie's definately flawed enough to miss out on awards, I am at least happy it's being nominated.
As for LOTR, I never read the books so I think the movies are just fine. If they sweep everything this year, more power to them.

-Elliott

i wasnt trying to change your opinion Brian was was pointing out the difference in time. and
i dont understand why playing traditional music during an according scene in Last Samurai is a problem. Check the review on filmtracks.com, they give it a pretty good rundown.

MeGrimlock, don't get me started on how flawed LOTR is

i liked last samurai, could have been better, but the score is pretty good and stuck with me for a bit after the movie (not as much as say gladiator or pirates, but still good)

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i liked teenage turtle mutant ninjas 3 and i thought its score was quite excellent as well...


there seemed to be alot of good films this year...so i dont really care what wins what, as im sure there are plenty of arguments for why each film should win.

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

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I would even say The Last Samuri yes.

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yay that would be good accept that "Dances with Wolves" was nominated in like 1990 and the two have the ADSACT SAME PLOT!

oh ya the first ninja turtles was best cause Elias Koteas kicked ass as Casey Jones

Elias Koteas is the shizznit. The Last Samurai score (at the first) didn't really sound traditional though, but more hokey than anything. I dunno, maybe they were spot on, but hokey really does describe it better.
I don't remember what Dances with Wolves was all about but it did have Kevin Costner and no samurai so it can go to hell.
Oh yeah, and when the ninjas attacked in Last Samurai... ohhh man, that was sweet.

-Elliott

yeah, i was grasping the arm rests to prevent myself from jumping up and down when those ninja dudes started scaling across the roof! samurai are cool no matter what, but i sure wasnt expecting the coolness that was the ninja to make an appearance

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

Jarmusawa, we need to work on a project...

-Elliott

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I don't remember what Dances with Wolves was all about but it did have Kevin Costner and no samurai so it can go to hell.

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Dances with Wolves (1990)

Having been sent to a remote outpost in the wilderness of the Dakota territory during the American Civil War, Lieutenant John Dunbar encounters, and is eventually accepted into, the local Sioux tribe. He is known as "Dances with Wolves" to them and as time passes he becomes enamoured by the beautiful "Stands With a Fist". Not soon after, the frontier becomes the frontier no more, and as the army advances on the plains, John must make a decision that will not only affect him, but also the lives of the natives he now calls his people. He gradually sheds his white-man's ways.



The Last Samurai (2003)

Set in the late 1870s, this epic film depicts the beginnings of the modernization of Japan, as the island nation evolved past a feudal society, as symbolized by the eradication of the samurai way of life. We see all this happen from the point of view of an alcoholic Civil War veteran turned Winchester guns spokesman, Captain Woodrow Algren (Cruise), who arrives in Japan to train the troops of the emperor, Meiji, as part of a break away from the long-held tradition of relying on employed samurai warriors to protect territories, as the emperor's new army prepares to wipe out the remaining samurai warriors. When Algren is injured in combat and captured by the samurai, he learns about their warrior honor code from their leader, Katsumoto, which forces him to decide which side of the conflict he actually wants to be on.