Slumdog Millionaire Anyone see? Reviews?
So, I liked it, but not sure it's Best Picture material. I love the way the writer wove a life story into a game show. The boys who played the protagonist and his brother as children deserve best actor award. The girl, meh. She did not do much for me although, again, I loved the young girl her played her as a child.
It was nice to have a Hollywood ending after watching the last three films (B Buttons, Rev Rd and The Reader) I needed a boost.
Anyone else see?
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I loved it - I think it's the top of the best picture list this year, but I think also there was just not a lot of good movies. I saw Ben B. too and it was good, but in a Titanic way. So Hollywood. I loved Slumdog and I think it was the best of the year, but it's not on my best of all time lists.
I loved the way the film played with the concept of how unbelievable the story was by making that a plot concept (that a slumdog couldn't possibly know the answers.)
I also loved the way the film rejected the notion that money is the key to happiness so succinctly. (The betrayal of the sale of the autograph, the giving away of the $100 bill, the dead end life of the mobsters, and, most importantly, how the game show is never really about winning the money for the protagonist.)
I also thought the movie was interesting because it wasn't a happy-go-lucky Bollywood film nor was it a documentary about the tragedy of India's slums or child prostitution or the like. I'm very curious how it will go over in India.
So a big thumbs up from me.
but read this review and then this personal reflection piece about it, and they were interesting:
http://www.racialicious.com/2008/12/04/youre-the-man-now-dog-the-raciali...
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/01/14/perception-through-the-lens-of-sl...
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"if i pass for other than what i am, do you feel safer?" ~ lani ka'ahumanu
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i was left ambivalent about whether i wanted to watch the film or not, but i'm pretty lackadaisical about movie viewing.
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if I don't make a huge effort and see it when right when it comes out, it's usually a few months....er years before I see it 
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I wasn't trying to make some snarky backhand comment about you, just talking about how I hardly ever watch movies.
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I couldn't figure out if your answer was in response to me and if so...what were you responding to. I thought, oh my I hope she doesn't think I was trying throw salt at her watching movies!!
I'm going to try to catch a movie today myself
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punkpapa has, and loved it. all i know is that my favorite actor turned down the role of the quiz master and that the film is getting some criticism in india. again, my favorite actor and heart throb weighing in on that is all i have to share. i am not very intellectual these days...
http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/shahrukh-khan-says-poverty-i...
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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
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The direction and cinematophraphy were breathtaking, I was glad to have seen it on the big screen. The soundtrack rocked, the movie stayed with me for awhile. loved it.
and absolutely adored it. it was breathtakingly beautiful and eery, not to mention that the actor playing jamal totally grew on me and by the end of the movie i was like "okay, he's so my new crush!"
had anyone seen boyle's film "millions"? it's a few years old, and it's a favorite of mine. i noticed today that some of the themes in "millions" and "slumdog" are *so* similar...they're both about two brothers who lose their mother at a young age, and the older brother is kind of selfish and worships money while the younger brother is much more kind and unconcerned with money and possessions. plus, like reverend mother pointed out, the undercurrent in both films is that money doesn't create happiness and shouldn't be worshipped as being all-mighty, and both movies actually point to money as being a source of evil in the world.
it's interesting to me that boyle made two movies that are so undeniably alike, although the setting and mood of the two movies is vastly different. i wonder if danny boyle has an older brother and lost his mother as a child??
anyway, i would recommend "slumdog" to anyone, it was fabulous. and check out "millions", too...it's more of a family movie, very touching and uplifting.
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was a Titantic in a lot of ways, but I found the story line a little more thought provoking. KWIM?
The whole idea of aging backwards and how you pass through lives of others.
I admit, it had me thinking.
I cried.
The ending got me good.