Apparently I'm destined to go to Hell
As I'm sure is fairly common, I love watching films. I have an extensive DVD collection that covers most genres, and go to the cinema as often as I can.

What relevance does this have to the QotW? Well, sure, I 've laughed at inappropriate moments in films (generally horrific death scenes), but the most that's elicited from others is a disapproving glare. No, my biggest crime against humanity, according to people with whom I've discussed, is this:

I didn't like 'Lost in Translation'.

I try not to mention this film amongst some of my friends, because they go all soppy and talk about it like it's God's loving smile immortalised in film. They all act as if this film has enriched their lives in ways they never thought possible, that each of its 102 minutes provides an orgasm for the soul.

It bored me. There's a lot of hanging around, he cheats on his wife, and it ends.

Whenever i make my viewpoint known, my friends look on me like they've walked in on me beating a nun to death with a sack of kittens. How could I find it boring? How can I not see the beauty?

Nothing happens! Why would I want to watch a film that's the equivalent of waiting for a bus?

I expect to get flamed, but I really didn't enjoy the film, and nothing is likely to change that. Merely having this opinion has apparently condemned me to the fiery pits of Hell.

Oh yes, I also have no desire to ever see Top Gun, I really like Vanilla Sky, and I thought No Country for Old Men had a shit ending.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:36, 16 replies)

No Country for Old Men
DID have a shit ending.
But it was good on the whole.

If it helps, I hate Forrest Gump.
So, so much.
( Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:37, closed)

NCFOM
The bits with Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem were awesome, a proper cat and mouse game. The film should have just been that.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:42, closed)

I do actually like
Forrest Gump. But that's helped by it being one of the relatively few films I've actually seen.

Unlike LiT.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:43, closed)

*sits on fence*

I liked Lost In Translation...but not loved it.

I thought it was good...but not brilliant.

I too have friends who treat it as the greatest cinematic masterpiece ever created, and condemn me when I go 'meh'

I also know a few who vehemently despise it with a loathing usually reserved for people who name their children after Nazis.

It appears to be the Marmite of movies.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:42, closed)

Marmite sums it up
Although I don't despise it, that venom is saved for the Dungeons & Dragons movie...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:47, closed)

Did you
have to look it up on IMDB to find out that it was 102 minutes?

I only ask as it seemed like 102 years to me when I watched it.
(dchurch bah, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:33, closed)

*click*
Couldn't agree more - that film was utter, utter, utter tedium. I've had more fun gazing at the wall in the bus station waiting for my bus. They only thing that would've saved it is if some ghosts turned up during one of the tedious monologues, and Peter Venkman could've got medevil on their ass...
( SpankyHanky, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:42, closed)

Venkman
That would certainly have made me sit up and take notice!

Maybe we'll see that if they do a Redux.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:45, closed)

*click*
I'm with you too, and I know a few others who say the same.

boring as fuck.

However, Top Gun is great
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:45, closed)

I get the same thing for Hannibal.........
because after enduring the first hour and a half of fuck all happening, I realised I could just leave....so did.

Apparently it gets "good" towards the end, but i'd almost lost the will to live by that point. And that is apparently an indication of why I have no taste or appreciation of "art".

Lost in translation was pretty forgetable, but "there's a lot of hanging around, he cheats on his wife, and it ends" pretty much sums it up for what I can remember. Apart from the police chase sequence.....oh hang on, that was the Blues Brothers.
(nonstopdancer, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:56, closed)

One word
Solaris
(kebabking - salad and garlic mayo pls, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:05, closed)

I watched lost in translation
and I'm gutted because I'll never get that time back! Wasted. What utter shite. NOTHING HAPPENS. Seriously, nothing.
(Wallilay has been bored of this shit since, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:23, closed)

Lost in Translation?
Boring.

Top Gun? Shite

Vanillla Sky? Typical Tom Cruise wank (and poorly made remaked, I found out yesterday)

NCFOM? Haven't seen yet - I'll pass judgement...for now.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:49, closed)

I quite liked it
But then again, I get the same odd looks when I reveal I quite like the music of Van Halen...
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:54, closed)

I went to see Lost in Translation
with two friends - a guy and two girls. We sat alternately MFMF, and despite enjoying the movie, most of the way through I'm thinking 'Mike's not gonna like this movie, not one bit.'

It gets to the end, the credits roll, and I smile and nod at my two lady friends.

Mike stands up and, in front of a packed auditorium, shouts 'Now just the what the FUCK was all that about?'
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:55, closed)

I haven't seen Lost in Translation
Because I'm pretty sure I will have exactly this reaction to it. The poster bores me.

I too have no intention of seeing Top Gun and, whilst I really enjoyed NCFOM I can't for the life of me remember how it ended which implies I probably agree with you.

Let's set up our own hell cinema. I reckon we'd do pretty well.
( Throat And Ice Pie I see dem tatties dere., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:12, closed)