Slumdog Millionaire

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Anyone seen it yet??

I am really looking forward to this one... loved the book plus the guy who composed the soundtrack A R Rahman is nothing short of a musical god in my part of the world
 
my girlfriend's getting quite excited, I have no idea what it's about or anything abuout it to be honest...
 
Looking forward to it. The buzz is quite encouraging.
 
Ander8on said:
Disgusted to see anyone with a rapidshare acoount are downloading this R5 quality film - can provide information where this is being shared (to report them obviously).
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:lol: Other films are ok to 'steal' though
 
Already started a thread earlier

https://www.redcafe.net/f27/slumdog-millionaire-227944/

Watched the movie, okay , worth watching once, Water few years back was miles miles better..... Dunno how Taare Zammen par was nominated as India's official entry though.


Yank critics have said in LA "Indians are already devastated with Mumbai blasts, we would give them some thing to cheer about" after it won LA critics award and when they nominated the movie for the Golden Globe. :wenger:
Should be great if we manage to win a Oscar in one way or the other.
 
vijay said:
Already started a thread earlier

https://www.redcafe.net/f27/slumdog-millionaire-227944/

Watched the movie, okay , worth watching once, Water few years back was miles miles better..... Dunno how Taare Zammen par was nominated as India's official entry though.


Yank critics have said in LA "Indians are already devastated with Mumbai blasts, we would give them some thing to cheer about" after it won LA critics award and when they nominated the movie for the Golden Globe. :wenger:
Should be great if we manage to win a Oscar in one way or the other.
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This thread was started before yours numnutz
 
Over-rated.

It's a typical Indian movie.

Good movie, but massively over-rated.
 
The book was quite good. Not sure about this though, although I imagine my missus will make my mind up for me.
 
feck ME! The main actor (Dev Patel) that plays the character Jamal Malik used to go to my school 2 years ago! Obviously he was on our screens before in "Skins" but this is massive for him. I knew him quite well, he was in the year above me, and once told me (over a bag of MY chips) that he never even took Drama at GCSE :lol: He even taught me Tae Kwon Do for one lesson :wenger: (long story). I am well happy for him.
 
zing said:
Over-rated.

It's a typical Indian movie.

Good movie, but massively over-rated.
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Seems to be the general opinion at the IMDB boards as well. Also interesting that many people from India or are of Indian descent are disappointed at how highly acclaimed this movie is turning out to be. Basically because it was a joint British (or American?) production, and it's in feckin English. Some guy over there raised a good point in that no game shows in India are ever in English.

But the timing of its release might have had an impact, it's a very upbeat and optimistic movie which is fairly welcome in these times of economic uncertainty and credit crunch.
 
great film. a great portrayal of life in the slums/shanties of india. is quite sad with the realisation that kids get blinded/crippled to earn more money begging. but thats the way of the world i suppose. didn't want to go, but the missus dragged me. glad she did, was a very good movie.

got a blowie when we got home as well. :drool:
 
brewlio said:
great film. a great portrayal of life in the slums/shanties of india. is quite sad with the realisation that kids get blinded/crippled to earn more money begging. but thats the way of the world i suppose. didn't want to go, but the missus dragged me. glad she did, was a very good movie.

got a blowie when we got home as well. :drool:
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I didnt know you like to blow ass cracks.

We should be friends.
 
Agree with Zing. There's nowt great about that movie, watched only once, found it difficult to occupy myself and finally gave up. There are certainly better movies from the India for the ones with classical taste.

There are millions of cretins that even go to the extent of mortgaging toilet mugs to marwari hundis to get tickets once they hear some trash talks about some movie from the clueless western media even though they are all shit and also bang about aloud on the internet in a know all manner.

That Aamir Khan's movie was far more entertaining, compared to thsi one.
 
Was left completely underwhelmed by this ... was looking forward to watching it and now that I finally have, I can't for the life of me understand what the fuss is all about. It's a relatively good movie, but if it wins the oscar for Best Movie, i would honestly be shocked. The dialogue was atrocious .. the acting wasn't great .. the story was typical masala Bollywood fare .. What's the fuss about ?
 
I thought it was fantastic. It seems a lot of indians aren't very happy about the movie, which I understand. But from my point of view I thought it was good and I know very little about India so I can't see the flaws of it and compare it to other "Indian" movies. But from the story telling, cinematography, directing and acting point of view I thought it was good.
 
If somebody PMs me a supernovatube link to this, or streaming online, then I will request that they are banned.
 
just back from seeing it, thought the cinematography was superb, not sure about the hype over the 'Dev Patel' bloke though, he was hardly in it! The younger versions of the brothers were class!!
 
I thought it was class. Best movie I've seen recently.

Dev Patel is overhyped barely acts. Same face throughout the whole movie.
 
Member 5225 said:
just back from seeing it, thought the cinematography was superb, not sure about the hype over the 'Dev Patel' bloke though, he was hardly in it! The younger versions of the brothers were class!!
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Agree with that, the younger kids were the best. I liked the first half of the movie much more than the second half. The movie looked really fantastic.
 
I thought the film was class..... One of the best films I saw in 2008
 
I'm Indian and I liked the movie.

I still dont think its worthy of sweeping the Oscars though. One of the reasons why most Indians dont think its anything great is because they've seen concepts like this before when it comes to Bollywood films.
 
malc31337 said:
Maybe a lot of Indians dont like it because it shows a lot of truths, a lot of things that are'nt shown in normal bollywood movies.

I, for one, thought it was brilliant.
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Nah, lot of Bollywood movies deal with similar topics.

It's the typical rags to riches story told in an innovative way with some sleek direction. Even I'm sceptical if this would've got any recognition if it wasn't in English and directed by an English guy.
 
malc31337 said:
Maybe a lot of Indians dont like it because it shows a lot of truths, a lot of things that are'nt shown in normal bollywood movies.

I, for one, thought it was brilliant.
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If you meant poverty and corruption, Bollywood movies have dealt with these topics often and well enough in the past. Although lately there has been a shift towards glamour movies, for a long period in the 70s and 80s the Bollywood hero almost always came from an underprivileged background and beat the odds to become successful/happy/get his girl/whatever.

I enjoyed Slumdog. I wasnt happy with all the actors though, Anil Kapoor was cetainly poor by his usual standards. But a nice Bollywoodish kinda movie with a slightly lame climax. I mean, that last question obvoiusly fitted well with the plot but c'mon, it was just too easy. But movies with similar plots and sometimes better acting release everyday in Bollywood and do quite well in India. They just arent directed by a danny Boyle or backed by Fox Searchlight, etc and hence don't do as well abroad.

one thing that puzzled me was that everyone outside India hates Bollywood movies for the song dance routines and yet I noticed that everyone bar the Indians sat through that song during the end credits????
 
Hope Slumdog doesnt win Best Picture. The reader is much better. Haven't seen the others nominated in that category yet.
 
mehro said:
If you meant poverty and corruption, Bollywood movies have dealt with these topics often and well enough in the past. Although lately there has been a shift towards glamour movies, for a long period in the 70s and 80s the Bollywood hero almost always came from an underprivileged background and beat the odds to become successful/happy/get his girl/whatever.

I enjoyed Slumdog. I wasnt happy with all the actors though, Anil Kapoor was cetainly poor by his usual standards. But a nice Bollywoodish kinda movie with a slightly lame climax. I mean, that last question obvoiusly fitted well with the plot but c'mon, it was just too easy. But movies with similar plots and sometimes better acting release everyday in Bollywood and do quite well in India. They just arent directed by a danny Boyle or backed by Fox Searchlight, etc and hence don't do as well abroad.

one thing that puzzled me was that everyone outside India hates Bollywood movies for the song dance routines and yet I noticed that everyone bar the Indians sat through that song during the end credits????
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That song was damn good!

Even Marcos and Bazalini has tried posting something nice about the movie - sums up the overall quality, just because it came out of another cretinous British director it carries hype.

Hope it get kicked out of Oscars, but unlikely though. Oscars these days are like Miss World, the marketing potential of the movie aftermath can call the shots in choosing the winner.
 
It is a good movie but if it wins the oscars then it will confirm that they have become a farce.
 
mehro said:
If you meant poverty and corruption, Bollywood movies have dealt with these topics often and well enough in the past. Although lately there has been a shift towards glamour movies, for a long period in the 70s and 80s the Bollywood hero almost always came from an underprivileged background and beat the odds to become successful/happy/get his girl/whatever.

I enjoyed Slumdog. I wasnt happy with all the actors though, Anil Kapoor was cetainly poor by his usual standards. But a nice Bollywoodish kinda movie with a slightly lame climax. I mean, that last question obvoiusly fitted well with the plot but c'mon, it was just too easy. But movies with similar plots and sometimes better acting release everyday in Bollywood and do quite well in India. They just arent directed by a danny Boyle or backed by Fox Searchlight, etc and hence don't do as well abroad.

one thing that puzzled me was that everyone outside India hates Bollywood movies for the song dance routines and yet I noticed that everyone bar the Indians sat through that song during the end credits????
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Perfectly put. One reason why Slumdog has found an audience in western world is the lack of melodrama you find in most hindi movies.
 
if it wasn't directed by a western director then it wouldn't have won. FACT

and im not going to watch it.
 
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