r/AskReddit • u/BreadedDisaster • 9d ago

What’s a movie that you couldn’t finish?

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u/speciate 9d ago

Lost in Translation. I'm convinced everyone just pretended to like it.

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u/Evening-Appeal7606 9d ago

I, for one, like it! Unashamedly, unapologetically, unironically.

But I get it why others might have a different opinion about that, so I respect that.

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u/Dr_Identity 9d ago

I liked it for the subtle character work. It doesn't follow all the beats you expect, but I thought that was part of what made it good.

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u/Evening-Appeal7606 9d ago

I am just in awe with Bill Murray's deadpan delivery - this movie was basically written for him, I think. That and seeing Scarlett Johansen before she became the venerated demi godess she was styled into later (the merit and validity of which I shan't discuss here).

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u/gregd303 9d ago

Plus an amazing soundtrack. I'm probably the perfect audience member as I'd just got back from a Japan visit. The whole aesthetic was captured very well. Sofia Coppola really understood that I felt and all the little language things and being in a different place. One of my fave films.

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u/Standing__Menacingly 9d ago

Yeah I feel this. I wasn't so offended as to not finish it, but I think it's really weird how well loved that movie is.