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Poll Question: The Oscar winning movie... how good do you think it is?
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:20
Maybe they just felt obligated to nominate a film with a Bollywood dance scene.  I think this would be the first one. LOL
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Over-hyped? Yes. Overrated? No.
I'm a huge fan of Boyle.
It's a Bollywood film with a foreign director, I didn't expect new ground to be broken.
Now, the Dark Knight, there is movie that was both overhyped and overrated.



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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

It's a good (but not great) movie and I went to school with the director.Cool

I command you to see it!!!  Angry





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No sh*t! really? You know Boyle... small world I guess!

Back to topic, although I have yet to see such films as The Reader and Milk, personally the best (non animation) movie of 2008 was The Wrestler. Simple and with one of the best performances I´ve ever seen I think it´s pretty much a perfect movie. Although I did like Benjamin Button more, but even I, Fincher´s biggest fan, must admit it has it´s flaws (mostly in the script though)... funny, after Fincher Aronofsky is my favorite "young" living director... I say young cause Lynch is getting old ejejeje 


I have seen all the big Oscar movies from 2008 and find The Wrestler to have easily been the greatest for the same reasons. Milk was unexpectedly great, definitely my second favorite movie of the year even though I had really low expectations prior to seeing it. Benjamin Button was probably tied for third with The Reader and Frost/Nixon and, like I said earlier, Slumdog was a huge disappointment.
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As I have said on other forums ever since this movie made a big splash at the Oscars,  Titanic won 11 Oscars, that says it all as far as the Oscars go.  So I completely reject the Oscars as a measure of how good a film is and how a good a film is is not their only consideration in selecting the winner and any system like that can not not be dishonest.   I will say it for the Academy that they USUALLY give away the prize to a good film, not a complete laughable disaster, so congrats for that, I suppose!  In short, is Slumdog good enough to get 8 Oscars...I don't know, is there a way to determine how many Oscars a film deserves anyway?   I liked the movie nearly all the way through, except for the forced Bollywood song-dance at the end, so it gets an 8 from me, great film for sure but there's been much that's been way better too. 
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 20:45
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

It's a good (but not great) movie and I went to school with the director.Cool

I command you to see it!!!  Angry





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No sh*t! really? You know Boyle... small world I guess!

Back to topic, although I have yet to see such films as The Reader and Milk, personally the best (non animation) movie of 2008 was The Wrestler. Simple and with one of the best performances I´ve ever seen I think it´s pretty much a perfect movie. Although I did like Benjamin Button more, but even I, Fincher´s biggest fan, must admit it has it´s flaws (mostly in the script though)... funny, after Fincher Aronofsky is my favorite "young" living director... I say young cause Lynch is getting old ejejeje 
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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:58
It's a good (but not great) movie and I went to school with the director.Cool

I command you to see it!!!  Angry





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Points: 2818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 15:51
I'm eagerly waiting for its opening in Finland, although after your seeing comments my expectations lowered a bit. 
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Never heard of it.
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I gave it a 6. It is completely overrated and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone because there are so many better movies out there. Nothing about it seemed original or sincere and I really didn't care about the characters. I can't see why it has won so much praise.
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So, we all know this movie won 8 Oscars. Not that indicates how good the movie actually is but, you know, it should, right? Theoretically speaking of course. So, do you agree? Not only with the Oscars but with the general reviewing of the movie, it´s mostly ver, very favorable, just look at Rottentomatoes.com... Personally I think the movie sucks big monkey balls and can´t understand the praise, it´s a 4, 5 at best, but not the best movie of the year, not at all (that might actually have been Wall-E). It´s Disney meets Cidade de deus with some interesting technical camerca work ... not much more than that....

What do you think? 
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