benjymouse53

To me, I think it is hard for children to understand the idea of this movie. I've never read the original, but other reviewer had mentioned this movie was not so much based on the original story. First, I would like to say that sound track of this movie was fantastic (His movie always has great sound-track). Second, I would like to say that I had a problem with voice. Sophie's voice was by C.Baisho. I think she's alright, when Sophie was old lady but when she was young girl her voice didn't meet the character (C.Baisho is I think in her late 50's or something like that). Over all, I enjoyed it very much. And I will watch few more times to understand his message. I didn't enjoy "Sento-Chihiro no Kamikakushi", but I think I liked this movie better in someways. Hopefully, he will produce more great movies in the future. I'm surprised to see that he didn't introduce great characters(Such as Totoro, Makkuro Kurosuke, Ji-Ji and etc).

P.S. I think this movie, people will either LIKE it or DISLIKE it. Not for everybody I think.

The movie was just too funny too watch. I liked the camera works, it captured a lot of interesting, and stereotyped views. The film had no translation or what's so ever! The main translator had horrible English skills, this movie really made you "Lost in translation." Unfortunately, I understand both Japanese and English, so I was unable to experience that... But form my point of view, I think there are bits that director purposely put stereotype Japanese people... (I THINK? I HOPE! Other wise, it's just bad...) Also, I liked how they (I THINK?) used a lot of random people, I don't think they were actors! They were really shooting this film in the city with full of non-extras and non-actors!!! It was amazing. I want to know what Bob-san whispered...

I liked working in this TV movie. yes, I had a chance of playing for this movie... I was one of the musician, who had recorded for the show. I think each actors did great job for the movie, but the story was not strong enough to explain many things. There were things that didn't make sense. i.e. When we had to pretend that we could not play Mozart well. (like they made us play horribly... seriously, it was actually funny doing that.) If we are one of the top conservatory in the country, students don't play like that!! Do you know how hard it is to get in to school like that?

And sadly, there were supposed to be students' love triangle, that totally got cut off, b/c there weren't enough time! I totally wanted to see that, b/c I saw them acting!!!! And finally... Amy, D.W. Moffett, and Keith Carradine... their love triangle didn't make sense I thought. You can't just hop in and out!! Anyway so that was quite dissapointing TV movie I thought... And they even did the re-run. Like I said, the adult actors were very good.

Over all, it was cool 'ACTION' movie. But I thought they put too much of stupid jokes in it. I heard a lot of people were laughing at some funny stuff. (inc. Me) But what happened to that all serious stuff? I thought it was totally mainly "an action" rather than interesting story it had in previous 2. I liked it at first, but now that I think about it, I want my money back! It really was just stupid comments that Arnold said/did made us laugh and actions that kept people's interest. It's obvious that they are thinking of doing "T4"... I liked J.Cameron better than this guy...

SPOILER I did like this movie... It was pretty, and sad. The original story was written by my mother's fav. writer Teru Miyamoto. His story is often dark, the director has paid excellent attention to the detail of Miyamoto's writing. Miyamoto's writing is almost exactlly the way movie was put... Story was strange, husband commiting suicide w/o reasons... If you like artsy movie, I think you should check it out.