There's this new movie out called "Lost in Translation" that stars Bill Murray and is directed Mrs. Spike Jonez. It's getting great reviews and I was thinking about going to see it until I read the title of the review in the Bay Guardian: Sleepless in Shinjuku- Lost in Translation rediscovers the clichés of expat life in Japan.

God damnit, I am so sick of that cliché. How many times have filmmakers with nothing to say used that cliché just because they can't think of anything else? And, as we all know, if you've seen one movie about the expat life in Japan, you've seen them all.

What a pretentious wanker.