Why does everyone love the movie "Lost in Translation" so much?

Two words: Scarlett Johanson (pre-botox)

I like it but I didn’t love it.

“Everyone”? Sounds like that got LIT

everyone?
I have not seen it, and I have no intention to do so either.

Oops, I should not have used the infamous “everyone”.

Movies are like music. Either you like them or you don’t. It’s tough to sell a movie.
I won’t try to with this one. I didn’t love it, but I certainly enjoyed it. I saw it once many years ago, and hadn’t heard a thing about it before I saw it. If I had to guess why so many people are attracted to this movie in some way, I would think it has something to do with Bill Murray (who can do no wrong), the feeling of alienation that many of us feel, a “romance” where they don’t have sex, a story that toys with infidelity and a need for connection, and the overall visual experience of Japan (whether or not that is accurate). Plus, many of us have experiences that are similar in many respects.

Just a guess.

And don’t worry about the “everyone” police. Everyone does love Lost In Translation.

I love all the actors who were in it, and I felt their characters were real people who were going real-life crises. Oh, and there wasn’t one damn explosion or special effect in the whole movie!

Never watched it.

Because in reality, we really have no idea who people really are and what they think, feel.

The movie stresses that point with the main characters. Everything in this movie can be said to be lost in translation, not just linguistically, but in the course of our everyday lives.

The movie also depicts what it’s like when people can connect knowing that they might not ever really understand the other. That’s what relationships are all about.

I love this movie. It’s bitter sweet and full of every day occurrences where people find themselves struggling to connect with another human being.

I have come to the conclusion that this might be what life is all about, really connecting with another human being so much that translation isn’t even necessary.

I’d enjoy “motorboating” Scarlett’s titties…carry on.

@hominid @Pachy @SwanSwanHummingbird

Ok I see. These were things I noticed as well but didn’t think much of it, although when compared to most movies it seems pretty original.

Never seen it. Incidentally, I wonder the same of Inception.

I liked it, but wasn’t crazy about it.
Sometimes I watch movies that other people love, and I don’t like it, so I watch it a second time. Sometimes that helps. Often, I just hate the movie.
I have seen The Deer Hunter several times, and I am convinced everyone else is wrong. That movie sucks.

Meh…it was cute, but really, s-l-o-w. Stalled a lot and one can only take just so much sad sack Bill Murray, long, drawn out, silent looks. haha

I really liked it for the soundtrack and the treatment of loneliness.

@Symbeline Inception is actually pretty cool. It’s like an action/ heist movie with a bit of sci-fi and surreal imagery. OTOH, most of the best ideas are already right there in the previews, so ¯\(ツ)/¯

I’ve never seen Lost in Translation. Slow-paced movies with subtle emotions are some of my favorite things, but something about it seems kind of off-puttingly whiny. Like, white people feeling sorry for themselves in a foreign country, womp womp. Obviously I’m not being fair, because I’ve never seen it. It’s kind of douchey to feel this way about a movie I’ve never seen. Damn… I guess I’m going to go watch it now.

@Haleth I enjoyed the imagery. That’s about it though.

In this movie, I finally saw Bill Murray in a new light. I never liked him in movies before, because he always played a sarcastic person or an idiot. In this movie, he played a broken man, who was suffering from loneliness. He met a person, in Scarlett Johannson’s character, that seemed like she would be wrong for him in most ways (too young, too inexperienced, too pretty) but it turns out that she too, was suffering from loneliness and she found in him, Bill Murray’s character, someone who also seemed wrong at first (too old, too washed up, not particularly attractive) and they found out that they felt love for each other, despite their very different backgrounds. They both became just two people with a similar story, who found out that they had things in common, even though society would have deemed them an unlikely match. The soundtrack, especially the song More Than This, from This Scene was so romantic and sad at the same time. I wept during this scene, because it’s here that you first see that they are falling in love, this very unlikely couple, in this crazy situation. Then in the last scene, we are left with wondering and longing about what she whispered in his ear. It could have been anything, but we all guessed what she said based upon our own sad experiences and longing.

Its different, quirky. Apparently fairly true to life of Bill Murray’s philandering though…

I liked the relationship he had with the Japanese director – funniest part of the film.

And of course Scarlett. What would we do without Scarlett?