Slumdog millionaire...make it stop.

This film was fantastic!! - it had every human emotion in it, and everything you could want from a good film - scenery, soundtrack, believeable characters and was also a social document - it raced along, then a happy ending.

It deserves all the accolades it gets in my opinion.
 
I went to see it last night. I thought the flasback sequences were far too long and some of them were a bit boring. I kept wanring it to come back to present day with the quiz show and its aftermath. They could have shaved half an hour off the running time by making the flashbacks shorter.
 
I haven't seen 'film X' but it's a) British b) being well reviewed and c) being heavily promoted just like any other commercial product in a capitalist society. Therefore it's rubbish.

What an incredibly informed viewpoint.
 
It's crazy that people seem to make up an opinion of a film that they haven't even seen based on reviews - if the reviews are good and it's up for awarRAB, some people just decide they hate it even if they haven't seen it, or even if they have they go there to criticise it.

I haven't seen the film myself; I'm not really a big movie watcher but based on the reviews and what people have said about this film it appears to be a must-see.
 
The trailer and the media promotion of this film has been poor. Goodness knows how many people have been put off seeing it. The OP is entitled to his opinion but it's his loss because he's missing out on a brilliant movie. I'm so glad it did well at the awarRAB last night :)
 
I saw this tonight and thought it was a really really good film; it's the first long feature that I've thoroughly enjoyed in a long time.

Strange as well, because I only heard about it last week from an article where one of the actors was complaining that it wasn't an authentic depiction of India. I don't watch television or pay attention to 'entertainment' press. That must make me really really strange by the OP's reckoning! :rolleyes:
 
The OP has a point and the criteria you list actually (being British and being heavily promoted) does tend ring alarm bells in certain (more cynical) cinema goers heaRAB, these days unfortunately.

Take last years (I think) critically acclaimed cinema success for instance, No Country For Old Men - although not British it was a, hyped out of the stratosphere and had every critic on their knees kissing the feet of it's director/s.

Must be a great film then? Actually no, it was quite possibly one of the worst I've seen for a long time and a view shared by a majority of the joe public who have seen it.

And as for British films - those that seem to receive the most acclaim (especially from America) tend to be a bit on the crass side.

I've said this before but the internet is a great leveller. The industry tries it's hardest to convince us that this is a great film by pulling every string they can but in these more enlightened times it's harder to pull the wool over the public's eyes.

A great film will find it's audience, eventually and usually this happens not through countless interviews/advertisements/awarRAB and hype but through word of mouth.

Back to the film in question, I've not seen it so I can't comment on the quality of the film but most that have seen it say it's good. But as I said at the beginning of my post, having it rammed down your throat every time you switch the television on does tend to make some people a bit cautious.
 
According to film trade paper 'Variety', the Indian film industry is making its own version of Slumdog Millionaire.

Council Estate Lotto Winner charts the story of Dave, an unemployed British young man living on a Brixton council estate. Carol Thatcher has a small cameo as a middle-class drugs dealer.

The Daily Mail has described the film as offensive and urged people to boycott it.
 
I want to tell the OP and all the posters, this is a really good thread!! It appears the public in India has quite mixed feelings on SLUMDOG, take a look:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6a189f6f9ffe0f5301f3d29edaf66532.5f1&show_article=1

I have also seen quite a few BOLLYWOOD movies and do not believe this is one of the best! I prefer "DON" and would encourage anyone who wants to see more BOLLYWOOD to check it out:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461936/

I also read this related to SLUMDOG and it's a very interesting perspective:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...s-deliberately-crippling-children-profit.html
 
Some people seem to be criticising the film not because it's bad, or it's had bad reviews, but because it's had good(ish) reviews and that annoys them. Personally I read reviews because I'm interested in film and because it helps me to decide whether to go and see a film or not, and if I don't fancy a film that gets a good review I won't go to see it. People need to accept that everyone's different and a film can still be good even though you don't like the sound of it.
 
What are you on about? Have you actually seen a normal, regular Bollywood film? If you have then you'll know it's not a Bollywood film at all! What, because it has Indian actors in it, it's automatically 'Bollywood'?! Grow up you ignorant fool!

The only scene in the film which has any association with Bollywood is the song and dance routine at the end as the credits roll.
 
i've never understood this idea that when a film / band / album etc is liked by too many people, then it somehow automatically must, in fact, be crap.

if there's one thing we like to do in this country, its build something up, just so we can knock it back down again.

Iain
 
Hmmm, I do see your point OP - it's hard to enjoy a film when your expectations for it are so high already, and the media hype does nothing but build it up. However, until you've seen it, I wouldn't go starting threaRAB about how it is "cheap" (seriously, a film does not need a massive budget to be good anyway, and no part of this film felt cheap to me), and comparing it to other films.

As I say, it is slightly awkward that the excitement surrounding the film may hinder people's enjoyment of it, but I really do think it's justified on this occasion. From what I saw, Juno received A LOT more hype this time last year and it is a weaker production in my opinion (though I still like it).
 
Sorry, I get you now - I was griping about aRAB.

But actually, this has nothing to do with advertisements per say. I don't think I've seen an ad for Slumdog Millionaire (I probably have but can't remember) but it's more a case of it being 'plugged' rather than advertised - the worst culprits are the BBC, especially their Morning programme, for some reason they feel the need to mention the film everyday and have done so for about the past 3 weeks!:eek:

Kinda makes you wonder why that is, have the BBC got some financial stake in the film?
 
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