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It was a lot of fun. My wife once got frustrated with Clint Eastwood when we were trying to leave one of his restaurants as he was posing for a local newspaper photographer. It was pretty funny to watch my wife (with a definite edge to her voice) asking 'Dirty Harry' to get out of her way. Thankfull...

Hehe, actually there's not much to tell. Billy came into my picture frame store because he needed a photo framed fast for something he was doing over at CBS (my frame store was over the road from the CBS studios). We framed it in an hour for him and when he came back he told me: "Thanks, you saved m...

Thats awesome that you can afford to stay there. I'm not sure I would want to go back and live the movie myself, it would be disappointing in quite a few ways. I can only just afford it. I would be just going on a holiday to see the real places from the movie, and I've always wanted to see Japan an...

Well all I knew of the movie before it came out was the preview, and I really didn't get the impression that it was a pure comedy. Also, having seen Bill Murray play totally straight in The Razor's Edge, and straight roles in humourous films like Ed Wood, and straight roles in indy films like Rushmo...

Silver wrote:It was filmed during late September through late October-early November of '02. The entire shoot took 27 days/5 weeks.

Cool! It's a Halloween movie then!

Hehe, now I have two Bill Murray holidays: Groundhog Day and Halloween.

Do we know at what time of the year it was filmed?

I think there's a difference between 'getting' it, by which I mean that it has an emotional impact on a viewer, and understanding it. You can understand what this movie is all about, but you still might not have an emotional response to it. I think we who had an emotional response to it are in a ver...

Jane Pauley did question him about being accessible - that he has an unlisted phone number and he said that the people who live in the house with him, don't have an interest in Hollywood (the industry), so why impose constant interruptions and chatter on them... I must say that it's really hard for...

As much as I and all of you would Bob to have said something beautiful, I'm convinced he says nothing understandable... Well, that's not entirely true. He says "okay?" right at the end. :wink: But all tongue-in cheek comments aside, I agree with the majority of LIT lovers here when they say that th...

Yeah. Now I'll have to look and see if it's playing anywhere near Boston. Not good odds, but worth a look. Speaking of Christmas movies, I found a weird thing the other day - First Blood (Rambo - Silvester Stallone) is a Christmas movie. I know it's off topic and not all that relevant to what we're ...

I was wondering why there is such a polarity of opinions about this movie? I mean some people just love it and some absolutely detest it. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground - I mean no one ever seems to say "oh yeah, LiT, it was okay". Why is that? Is it just because if you 'get' it, it's gr...

I'm totally jealous. I'm lobbying my wife to visit Tokyo next year, but she's not into it at all. She hasn't really 'got' the movie yet, though I think she sees its attraction. I have to work on her a bit more. Luckily we're doing well enough financially that we could probably afford a night or two ...

I can see why people would think its racist, but i don't think it is, or at least, it wasn't intended to be I think it's a movie about two people. People - even nice people - can make jokes about other cultures. It's a fact of life. When people are in a foreign land they joke about what seems funny...

I don't know what's happened to the Oscars. Maybe the Academy always voted for shallow movies? All I know is that Lord of the Rings must be about the least deserving Oscar winner of all time, and Lost in Translation must be the unluckiest Oscar nominee of all time. To my mind, Lost In Translation sh...

I think the only scene that could have conceivably been left in was the robot scene. It could have further emphasized Scarlett's fascination with the Japanese culture, but it's still rather unnecessary and I'm glad they left it out. I would have liked to have seen that scene in the movie. I agree t...

But the kicker from that post was about the one girl sobbing on her way out of the theatre, being comforted by her boyfriend, which makes the movie all worth it. She should be on this forum discussing with us :wink: I'm not ashamed to say I cried when I first saw the movie, and I'm an old fashioned...

I didnt think anyone under the age of 20 would get this movie. Connecting with someone so much and then having to walk away for the benefit of everyone, really hurts. I'm not sure that's the message I got from the movie, but it's your message (or part of it). And that's the beauty of this movie - t...

Thats the beauty of this movie, nobody gets it, just us special people that congregate here. I find it amazing how few people get this movie. It must just be a case of 'haven't got there yet' for those people. They simply haven't reached that point where they can appreciate the feelings that this m...

I've had short connections with people, although not in another country altogether, and it really does give you that depressing, LiT vibe to know that you just had even the slightest connection with a person you will most likely never meet again. I used to work in an independent Youth Hostel in Eur...

I see it as an affair, but as a friendship-love affair rather than a sex-love affair. It is cheating in a way because these two characters build up a love that neither has in their own marriages (Murray's character seems to have lost it, while Johannsen's hasn't yet found it), but their commitments ...