it's like i'm looking for some answer

[evergleam]

So today got better. I drove down to College Park and spent the evening with my Stewbert. We went to Noodles (of course) and then rented a movie.

So, I need someone to tell me why exactly Lost in Translation is a good movie. Cause I really didn't like it, at all. I kept feeling like I was supposed to like it, but it was so boring. There was no real plot or any on-going thread to make me like the characters, and way too many pointless scenes of someone eating cereal or walking down the street. I get that it was supposed to be about this relationship between two misfits in a strange land, but it just didn't work for me. So if you liked it, please tell me why. Also, let me know how exactly it managed to keep your attention for the full two hours. :P

Since I didn't like that movie much, and neither did Stew, we saw fit to watch the South Park movie after it. Much much better. :P

I should go to bed. I have to give a tour at 1030 tomorrow. But before I do, here are my favorite lyrics of the day:


The Push Stars - Wild Irish Rose

They're closing down the farmer's market
And traffic's building down the lane
I'm an angry taxi driver's target
But that's okay
It's just the way he shakes his pain

Somedays my lover can't complete me
Sometimes my work cannot be done
Somedays I see my sun as setting
And I don't know, I don't know which way to run

And everytime I see you dance my Wild Irish Rose
I want to jump up on stage with you
I want to give you my clothes
And let the devil take my soul

The sign said "Live Exotic Dancers"
Not surprised I find my self inside
It's like I'm looking for some answer
For why my spirit's dead inside

And everytime I see you dance my Wild Irish Rose
I want to jump up on stage with you
I want to give you my clothes
And let the devil take my soul

And I never met my great grandfather
But I swear I saw his ghost last night
He looked just like he looked in pictures
Except he was not black and white

And everytime I see you dance my Wild Irish Rose
I want to jump up on stage with you
I want to give you my clothes
And let the devil take my soul

Comments

[dramacomic.livejournal.com]

Lost in Translation... I dunno... I thought it was a little boring when I saw it, but then when I talked about it, I realized I had a lot to say about it. That may be why it's a good movie - cause when you see it you don't realize how much you actually get out of it until you think about it a little deeper. Most movies that have been released in the past... ummm 5 or so years don't look like any thought was put into them at all.

I'm not sure if that made sense

Plus, everyone raves about Bill Murray, and he was good, but I thought Scarlet Johansen was dead on, and she's younger than me!

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

I think Scarlett Johansson (or however you spell it. :P) is really cool, and she was great in this movie. I think she might also be younger than me, too.

What you said, that's kind of how I felt about the Hours. It was supposed to be this great movie, but I walked away not liking it, and then upon discussion of it I realized I had a lot to say about it. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood to give Lost in Translation a chance, but I just couldn't get into it, and I dont' really remember anything that happened in it.

[dramacomic.livejournal.com]

I never saw the Hours, but I read the book, which was very confusing at first but then got better. I would imagine the movie would be like that...

But of course, not everyone is going have the same taste in movies.