# Lost in Translation insults japanese? Come on!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-translation-insults-japanese-come-on/231607>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 28, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-translation-insults-japanese-come-on/231607 "2004-02-28T11:50:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-translation-insults-japanese-come-on/231607/41 "2004-03-05T20:46:52Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> the film has met with wild critical and popular success. A lot, if not most, of the people who saw this film enjoyed it.

I’d hardly call a film that’s grossed less than $45 million dollars since it opened in September a wildly popular success, even for an ‘artistic’ film.

**Tars** , I’m no elitist, but you have failed to read your own previous posts before taking potshots. If the film ‘speaks to anyone who has been lost in a foreign country’ and yet doesn’t speak to _me_, a person who has been lost in a foreign country…

As for the Oscar award-- I think that award went to Coppola because her dad is in moves more than anything else.

Just chalk me up with this film’s detractors.

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