To me, this movie is perfection.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's nearly 1 a.m. and I just finished watching "Lost in Translation". Even though I'm tired, I feel that I have to write this review - which is my first - just to explain how I felt about this movie. First there is the obvious: It's a love story, in the very traditional sense, and it affects people, because loneliness is everywhere in the modern world, especially the big cities, marriages degenerate, people are alienated from each other etc. These things are moreless commonplace. I don't deny that the movie is touching, especially towards its end. But lets have a closer look: What does actually make these two strangers notice each other? It's the fact that they are white and American, that Bill Murray (can't remember his name in the movie - Was it Bob?) is taller, and sooo funny (give me a break). I am pretty sure that the two main characters would have never talked to each other in the USA. And it goes on: Their bond is actually formed while having fun at the Japanese people, and because they are so different (or superior?). In fact, I have never seen such a stereotypical image of a culture. I feel that there wasn't a single bad thing left out about Japan. They are not sociable. They talk Japanese to strangers for hours, because they are idiots. Their TV shows are crap. They admire every American actor, and pay him 2 mln Dollars for a whiskey advert. They are perverts. They are weirdos. And the list has no ending. The good parts of the movie - some acting, shots, music - are just overshadowed by the racist content. As for the love story, love hurts, and I know several books and movies that describe that way better.

Let me be honest; this is my first review. This will not be an objective review. I will not even try.Like so many other reviews here on iMDb, that I've read, I first saw this movie in the cinema, and I was spellbound. The best way for me to describe my first encounter with Lost in Translation is an 'awakening'. Yes; I fell in love with Scarlet (and Tokyo), yes; I've binge watched everything with Bill Murray in it ever since, but what affected me to most, still to this day, is that I learned that movies does'nt need to be plot driven. Not even to be perfect.The music, the acting, the locations, the ambience and the pacing is just pure perfection. So, thank you Sofia Coppola. You made me fall in love with movies all over again.

Lost In TranslationSophia's witty writing sense about juggling emotions between the characters is not only projected beautifully but also acted out magically on the screen for it be a semi-comic scene or a disappointment about the separation. Lost In Translation is a very mild movie which touches just the perfect chords that a simple drama in a theatre does.

Nice to look at and Bill Murray is good and it's populated with beautiful women but try as I might to engage with this movie I couldn't. Because nothing happens*. It's not a bad movie per se but it's certainly not worth watching. All that money. All the great cast. Couldn't someone have noticed when reading the script that nothing happens?*This bit is the spoiler.