Lost in Translation (HD DVD, 2007)

Features Actors:Bill Murray, Scarlett Johanson & Giovanni Ribisi
Running tme: 102 min.
Rating: R

Lost in Translation is a tale of two people adrift in their own lives whose paths cross as they sit in Tokyo, trying to figure out where their lives are going. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) married a photographer, and while his career carries them all around the world as he snaps celebrities there is no glamour in this life for Charlotte. He seems oblivious to the fact that his obsession with his own life is making the woman he loves miserable, and she’s beginning to wonder what it was that made the man she married the man she loved, and whether those things still exist. Bob (Bill Murray) is famous, or he was once. The blockbuster movies have become a thing of the past, but he’s still enough of a face to warrant a Japanese whisky company flying him out to spearhead their advertising campaign. Bob has two kids and a wife, or more accurately, Bob has two kids and a marriage, his love for them being the only thing stopping him from walking away from her. Neither of them have anything to fill their days with in Japan, Charlotte fills the time between brief encounter with her husband by seeing the sights, or simply staring out the window. Bob fills the time between his promotional obligations by propping up the hotel bar - neither managing to distract themselves from their troubles, with each experience leaving them sinking further into their solitary depression. Some people find it easy to be alone in a room full of people, it can be hard not to be when nobody in the room speaks your language. And when even your spouse feels like they’re speaking in a foreign tongue, the isolation can be overwhelming, and communication is not a overwhelming success in either of their marriages. Charlotte and Bob’s first meeting is, suitably, facilitated by boredom. Bob has nothing to do but sit by the bar, Charlotte is desperate to escape the mindless whittering of her husband’s celebrity friends, the two of them sit talking, the rest of the world oblivious to them. It doesn’t take long for them to stop being alone, together, and start being together, alone, and this odd couple that should never have met start to enjoy Tokyo for the first time.

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I will miss HD-DVD. The simplicity, the quality, the price...

This film doesn't really need hd-dvd...the story is superb in any format. That said, the extras on the the disc were great and the quality on my 65" tv was outstanding.