Slumdog millonaire
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Topic: Slumdog millonaire
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Slumdog millonaire
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:54
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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? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 15:04
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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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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 15:42
| Never heard of it. |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 15:51
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I'm eagerly waiting for its opening in Finland, although after your seeing comments my expectations lowered a bit.
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:58
It's a good (but not great) movie and I went to school with the director. I command you to see it!!!   |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 20:45
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 ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Tony R wrote:Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 22:14
| 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. |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 23:36
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. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 23:57
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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. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date 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. 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 10:40
Ok, you must die! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 16 2009 at 07:41
Probably seeing it tonight - working for the film company, I've got a promotional DVD of it (smug mode). Still not as cool as going to school with Danny Boyle though  ------------- 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 16 2009 at 18:11
Something tells me Boyle wasn´t that cool as a kid either Max, any thoughts/gossip? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: March 16 2009 at 20:39
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(Foreign) Films like this have been done a million times.It just when a British director does it the western world goes crazy for it. I went for "Very good movie, but there are better ones" Which is 8 but i'd give the film a 7 with that description.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: March 25 2009 at 13:30
I guess that means they don't have this movie over in Atlantis ------------- 
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: March 25 2009 at 13:32
I agree! We should start an angry mob! -------------
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: March 25 2009 at 13:45
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I'm in for an angry mob, but I'd like to know why. Are we mad that KoS says Slumdog Millionaire isn't overrated? That The Dark Knight is overrated? That I can't find my left shoe?
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: March 25 2009 at 13:57
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I liked it, and have no problem with it winning. It's on a completely higher level than Titanic. Although Boyle's toilet fetish is creepy. Its pretty eye-opening for Americans. I thought Milk was as good but Benjamin Button was a complete gimmick movie, though I enjoyed it well enough. Pitt was much better in Burn After Reading though (hilarious characters). ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 25 2009 at 14:35
What about all of them? And, have you looked under the bed? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: March 25 2009 at 15:15
It'll only have to be the first two. Turns out my left shoe was on my left foot. A twist worthy of being in an M. Night Shamylan movie. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 04:06
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Now seen it a couple of times - very impressed, but 8 Oscars?? Not sure... certainly not a film you'd imagine being sanctioned by the Indian Tourist Board... -------------
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 05:38
| As cinema is not a particularly pleasant experience I'll wait until it is on TV or on special offer DVD. So I'll pass on this one for a while. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 07:15
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Among the best motion pictures from an incredibly weak year for motion pictures (actors/actresses were better, Penn was win compared to the rest, Kate & Meryl lovely as always, but a neglected Revolutionary Road was a sour miss). Certainly not just a Bollywood-like film, if they kept the dance part out until the end, nonetheless, to quote a local critic's review I've just read, "a melodrama movie that doesn't contradict itself, but hardly a work of art". As always, this is not the kind of love story I like, but that part worked out nicely, in key moments. An excess of "it is written"-ism, too, plus some fragments can hardly be called believable (like being tortioned, and then suddenly melting the cop's heart by telling your entire life's story). Nice movie, but nothing memorable, as nothing memorable about most of this year's Oscar-listed movies. ------------- 
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 12:39
Oh noes, just play them those Taj Mahal rushes from the picture, and pay them, um, an all expenses paid trip for Switzerland ?, it can be done!
 Mumbai is as bad or good as Slumdog potrays in the film, actually they didn't even show those pigs romping on heaps of garbage, come to think of it! And be thankful you can only see the filth on screen, not smell and feel it! |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 16:44
IMO a sad indictment of the times re lack of " quality" movies out there that this movies wins Oscars. There were far better films that did not win recognition.....POOR FOR COMPLETIONISTS ONLY ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 16:54
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It's very nice,highly above average,but people are already considering one of the best movies presented to us in the 21 century so far..... There's a huge amount of better films made in recent years,at least to my taste. My personal oscar awarning picture this year would be a movie that didn't even made it to the nominees,Revolutionary Road.And it's a shame Gran Torino showe up a bit late.... |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 17:00
Revolutionary Road  ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 17:26
Isn't it so much better than Slumdog Millionaire? |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 18:12
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^ A very good film and Di Caprio was excpetional. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 10 2009 at 20:40
Really? I can´t stand him when he acts all bad ass, can he handle a serious role? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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