Slumdog Millionaire....

[Nuzzolese]

...looks awful. I'm sorry for saying that but it does, from what I've seen. I'm totally open to the possibility that it's really good, but the clips I've seen of it look really bad, like the acting and the editing are all bad. And musical numbers?! And I do not think it deserved best score! Benjamin Button did! And how did it beat Wall-E in sound editing when Wall-E was basically ALL sound editing? Stupid Academy Awards, so boring anyway, the same 5 or six movies sweep all catergories.

Oh, and Penelope Cruz for best actress to mispronounce things and flail around like a cultural sterotype ina role that mostly appears to insult women?

(I can't really speak with any confidence about my opinions because I haven't any seen these movies; just Wall-E and The Curious Case of Brad Pitt. This is just my impression. )

[Helvete]

I think so too. Slumdog Millionaire just seems to fit in with the kind of movie which wins awards. "Oh look, Indians and poor people, and a guy who beats all odds to become a hero and win the girl".

I've not seen it either and have no desire to.

[taquitos]

(y) thanks for this thread. at least i know someone out there somewhere is awake.

[kaiser soze]

It became predictable and definitely not worth best picture

[Lyman Zerga]

i want to see it and wanted to see it before it won shit

[Myu-to]

Remember that "Bollywood Add Your Own Script" Thread? Man that was fun. I have no desire to see it, but that doesn't mean that I won't,. However, if given the choice, I'm going with 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up.

P.S. I hate it when Hollywood and the Academy has a "darling" movie, then it is an ending amount hype and shite.

[YoungRemy]

lol if you think Slumdog Millionaire is a musical. I was told that it was as well.

I love reading opinions that start with "I didn't see it but..."

[Nuzzolese]

"I didn't see it but it LOOKS bad." What's wrong with that? And I heard the score, it did not compare to the music in Benjamin Button.
I didn't say I thought it was a musical, either. "I'm totally open to the possibility that it's really good, but the clips I've seen of it look really bad"

I hate re-explaining myself, why do I do it?

But anyway, I'm racist to Asians so perhaps that makes me biased - only brown asians, that is, not ching chongs, they're okay.

[jabumbo]

if the movie is anything like those music videos, i'm all for it!

[Echewta]

:rolleyes: It was a great and refreshing movie. The musical part was during the credits poking fun at the fact that it was a Indian movie that didn't have any dance numbers so while the credits are rolling, here you go.

Great acting all around, colors, editing, and music. You are missing out by not wanting to see it and resisting anything without Brad or Angelina.

[cosmo105]

Slumdog was amazing. Totally blew me away. See it.

[Dorothy Wood]

I have to say, I saw this movie on a whim when I didn't know anything about it, and I loved it and was constantly entertained. I don't really think it necessarily deserved all the awards though, especially not the music. it seemed okay, but not great.

I think it was just interesting because you never really see that stuff in movies. but, as I think I stated in another thread, it was kinda 90's-seeming. but at least it was a more realistic view of India than say the cartoon version in Darjeeling Limited (which I also enjoyed).

I think the whole fascination with Indian people and music and things is a little weird though. I mean, it's a movie, Indian people have been around for kind of a long time. and now instead of hollywood being turned off by brown people, everyone's all "ooh, exotic!" They shipped those kids in for the red carpet to put them on display, and then they gotta go back to the slums I guess. it's all pretty gross if you ask me.

oh, the slums...they're just so terrible, awful, wonderful. desperate housewives all over america are going to start taking bollywood dancing classes soon.


anyway, it's too bad the movie's being marketed the way it is now. if you watch this, it shows the cooler/better stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps67fzMNPtg

[beastieangel01]

I think Slumdog was good, but not as amazing as it's hyped up to be.

Go watch it with that in mind that and I think you'll enjoy yourself.

[Myu-to]

But anyway, I'm racist to Asians so perhaps that makes me biased - only brown asians, that is, not ching chongs, they're okay.
Ummmm...

Thanks.

I guess.

[Guy Incognito]

...(I can't really speak with any confidence about my opinions because I haven't any seen these movies;

I cant stop you having an opinion or reacting to hype but this is a pointless thread. well not pointless as its topical but i think you need a different perspective. Why start having a go at something just because its got a load of plaudits. Easy target.
And then you say everything you say has no substance because you aint seen it.

I understand not getting caught in the hype but why decide its shit when you might actually like it. dont knock it till you've tried it. jus sayin

i havent seen it, i want to beacuse its by danny boyle and i like his films.

[saz]

yeah, that's what i've heard too, that slumdog is good but not the film of the year. milk or benjamin button should've won best picture. or the snubbed dark knight, ditto christopher nolan, gus van sant and david fincher for best director.

hey, it's the oscars. both david lynch and robert altman lost best director to ron howard for a beautiful mind. :rolleyes:

but at least last year they finally got it right with no country for old men, javier bardem and daniel day-lewis. (y)

[Echewta]

Ummmm...

Thanks.

I guess.

hahaha.

[mickill]

Crash, Chicago, American Beauty, Shakespeare In Love, The English Patient, Forrest Gump...just to name a few of the other terrible choices made for Best Picture in (semi) recent years. And though Million Dollar Baby wasn't necessarily BAD, I think that the whole narrative style and tone was both corny and overdrawn. So how much validity do the Oscars add to films really?

Even when the Academy tries to deviate from their own conventional standards, they overreach with things like Return of The King, which was an obvious attempt to make up for their own failure to recognize the first installment (which actually would have deserved the Best Picture award, had it won).

And while the Academy has recognized a few lower budgeted, performance-driven films over the last twenty or so years (as nominees), the majority of the actual winners have all been far-from-subtle, well-financed studio pictures (Titanic, Gladiator, The Departed).

So yeah, as mentioned, last year they finally got it right and gave the award to an unlikely candidate (despite the excellent reviews); in the past, No Country For Old Men would have fallen into the "film that gets nominated, but doesn't win" category. But now they've gone a step further and pulled a winner from out of that same category where quirky and cutesy movies like The Full Monty or Juno are usually just given a nice little pat on the back, but aren't AT ALL expected to win. But this year, I think most people saw it coming.

My point is, I think it was a contrived choice. It was a fine film, but I find it annoying when they want to take a movie they love and nominate it for every award they can (apart from in the acting category, naturally) I guess that under normal circumstances, Benjamin Button would have walked away with the prize. But the Academy seems to be trying to break away from the usual Best Picture archetype.

In the end, since they were just going the whole "little movie that could" route anyway, I honestly would have preferred to have seen The Wrestler take it (and to have been nominated). Or that little Dark Knight movie. I still feel Mickey Rourke should have won, either way. I guess his character wasn't physically disabled, mentally challenged, insane, visually impaired or gay enough though.

Pardon the essay.

*credits roll*

*big choreographed dance number*

[Rock]

It was a good movie. Not as great as everyone has been making it out to be, but that probably is because of all the hype. If no one said anything about the movie, then I probably would have enjoyed it more without such high expectations.

The only people that stayed during the credits were white folk. At least from what I saw and what my cousins said.

I do hate how all the "brown asians" can't shut up about the movie. Its like their claim to fame in Hollywood.

Sure it was good...but its no Judgment Night.

[Nuzzolese]

mickill! You're here and you're saying things and they're insightful and well-phrased! Hi!


I started the thread because I wondered if anyone had seen this movie and actually did NOT like it, or didn't think it was all it was cracked up to be. So turns out, kind of, yes, people have said as much.

I have suspicions that it was chosen to be the best-all-around winner as a representation of what this awards committee wants to say about the world, not what they want to say about movies, which is possible. I'm keeping an open mind. I liked City of God, and that had poor dirty children, and it didn't even have Brad Pitt, so who knows!

[yeahwho]

In the end, since they were just going the whole "little movie that could" route anyway, I honestly would have preferred to have seen The Wrestler take it (and to have been nominated). Or that little Dark Knight movie. I still feel Mickey Rourke should have won, either way. I guess his character wasn't physically disabled, mentally challenged, insane, visually impaired or gay enough though.

Pardon the essay.

*credits roll*

*big choreographed dance number*

I agree with your essay, The Wrestler is easily one of the finest films released in the past decade, let alone 2009. Mickey Rourke is half of the reason for this, but you have to also credit the direction, story and cast who made the performances what they are. In the end The Wrestler will be remembered as one of the greatest films in the first decade of the new millennium. Perhaps the Oscar snub is only going to enhance it's beauty.

Like he told Barbara Walters (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Oscars/story?id=6897261&page=1) though, "In the big picture, you can't eat it, you can't fuck it and it won't get you into heaven".

That is my response.

*roll credits*

*play springsteen* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUEKJIcvbo&feature=related)

[Dorothy Wood]

mickill! You're here and you're saying things and they're insightful and well-phrased! Hi!


I started the thread because I wondered if anyone had seen this movie and actually did NOT like it, or didn't think it was all it was cracked up to be. So turns out, kind of, yes, people have said as much.

I have suspicions that it was chosen to be the best-all-around winner as a representation of what this awards committee wants to say about the world, not what they want to say about movies, which is possible. I'm keeping an open mind. I liked City of God, and that had poor dirty children, and it didn't even have Brad Pitt, so who knows!


it's not as good as City of God. or as serious. it's still pretty intense sometimes.


I should ask my indian friend if he likes Slumdog Millionaire. he'd probably just tell me to fuck off though, since he's still not over the times we used to ask him about Monsoon Wedding constantly...what he thought about it, how it was being in the movie, how much they paid him, etc. etc. and he'd be like, "you racist fucks", but then we showed him the cover of the DVD at the video store and he was like, "holy shit, that does look like me". and it does, almost exactly. just on that cover though, the actual guy in the movie doesn't really look like him.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/137/039_500597~Monsoon-Wedding-Posters.jpg

[Nuzzolese]

I do like a good adventure story.

[Echewta]

Oh! Then you would love Goonies.

[Nuzzolese]

or Adventures in Babysitting

[mickill]

And Slumdog isn't edible either, nor will it get you into heaven.

I'm HALF Indian. Maybe that's why I only HALF like it! Maybe if I were WHOLE Indian I'd really like it!

Hi Nuzzolese.

[Myu-to]

or Adventures in Babysitting
Now that's quality.(y)

[saz]

*play springsteen*

speaking of which, the boss was snubbed last night as well. why didn't the academy have him perform his tune from the wrestler? instead we got more of slumdog shoved down our throats.

[RobMoney$]

I'm HALF Indian. Maybe that's why I only HALF like it! Maybe if I were WHOLE Indian I'd really like it!

Mike Patel?

[Dorothy Wood]

speaking of which, the boss was snubbed last night as well. why didn't the academy have him perform his tune from the wrestler? instead we got more of slumdog shoved down our throats.

he wasn't nominated for an oscar, that's why. 2 songs from slumdog and peter gabriel's song from wall e were the only ones nominated. and peter gabriel refused to perform only 65 seconds of his song as part of a medley because the thought it was dumb.

I love peter gabriel and I hate medleys. good to know we're on the same page.

[mickill]

Mike Patel?
Lucky guess.

They probably couldn't get any elaborate dance numbers to work with Springsteen's song.

Or as part of a medley for that matter.

[RobMoney$]

Like 99.9% of Indian people I know are named Patel.

I had to chuckle when they announced that Indian family as the Patel family on the pre-show.

[yeahwho]

Lucky guess.

They probably couldn't get any elaborate dance numbers to work with Springsteen's song.

Or as part of a medley for that matter.

you could get a bunch of one armed men punching at the breeze with a pack of one legged dogs howling while a one-legged man is trying to dance his way free

[cosmo105]

i should preface, er, postface my statement by saying i went into it knowing very little about it and only hearing it was "good" and not OMG THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR. i liked it quite a bit.

[HotAndWet]

Ever since first hearing about it a few months ago, I have absolutely no desire to see that movie....the plot itself doesn't interest me at all....I mean maybe it is good but I really don't feel like sitting through it.
And yeah I know I haven't seen it but it seems like one of those movies everyone will forget about in a few years.

[Documad]

speaking of which, the boss was snubbed last night as well. why didn't the academy have him perform his tune from the wrestler? instead we got more of slumdog shoved down our throats.

I heard they changed the way they did the nominations they year, so that people voted based upon seeing the song played in a clip from the movie. So Springsteen's song playing over credits isn't as cinematic and thus got fewer votes. It seems really stupid, but I suppose they're still reacting against the old trend of songs getting nominated when they had nothing to do with the movie but the song was popular.

Anyhow, I loved Slumdog Millionaire when I saw it at the theater. My friends and I were on the edge of our seats. It didn't stick with me for long, and I'll never want to see it again but it was a very entertaining couple of hours at the theater. I liked all the parts with the little kids a lot more than the later parts with the adult actors. I was happy to see Danny Boyle get best director because it was quite an ordeal for him to make that movie.

Tropic Thunder was my favorite movie last year, so what do I know?

[funky_monkey]

it's overrated. the kids in the movie were the best part.

[RoryMC]

Slumdog "Millonair!" is brilliant.

[b-grrrlie]

i want to see it and wanted to see it before it won shit
Me too.
Stockholm Filmfestival had a free pre-screening for members last Thursday, but I was working.
It premiers here next week, but I don't know when I can afford to go to the movies... :(