Slumdog millionaire...make it stop.

So what if its "cheap"? I can think of many, many films made on a small budget...

Although I doubt it was made on an especially cheap budget - as Danny Boyle has got quite a bit of recognition worldwide.
 
Trainspotting is another great film, although the book is better (as always). Plus, it's geographically accurate, which is nice :)

Hype before anyone has seen the film is one thing, but a lot of British films are only hyped after they have been released and people realise how good they are - The Full Monty / Trainspotting / 4W&1F are cases in point - the real hype only came after people saw them.
 
How can anyone criticise a film without seeing it? :confused:

This movie is INCREDIBLE! I went to see it, not really expecting much but it is one of the best films I have seen in a long time and I seem to spend my life at the cinema since I bought one of those passes!

It's brilliantly done, it has a blend of everything - action, humour, suspense, sadness, romance and draws you into thoughts about destiny and significance of all the steps we take in our lives.

Yeah, it gets a little cheesy in places and there is a very strange language switch in the middle that they've tried to make unnoticable but hey, it's there. But other than that (and I happen to like the sappy aspects), it's amazing. It's been made so well, the lead actor is outstanding and the his female co-star is beyond beautiful. This is a DVD buying film and hopefully an award winning one because it deserves it. It's absolutely wonderful.
 
given that you haven't seen it, with all due respect, you're opinion is kinda worthless.

but i suppose its possible that everyone who's seen it are wrong, and the opinion of someone who hasn't seen it is bang on.

Iain :p
 
Me too. I watched this film ages ago but they're going on and on about it.

I hate it being associated with Bollywood. It is not. Bollywood is the sesspool of movies. This is a great movie but please treat it like that!
 
I forgot to add in my original post above that although the film is at times shocking it is also peppered with highly amusing scenes throughout....the autograph scene being just one of many :D
 
Like I said in the other Slumdog thread, when I went to see it I walked through the shopping centre and there were adverts for Bride Wars every few yarRAB. That's what I call overkill, not the relatively few press adverts for Slumdog Millionaire.

As to the point about the internet giving us more information, the problem is when people start trusting unsubstantiated internet reviews over well-regarded professional reviewers. The serious press has been quite critical of Slumdog, in particular the Guardian gave it three stars out of five. I would rather trust someone who is paid to write objective reviews, week in week out, than someone - even a rabroad poster - who has nothing to lose by making up some wildly biased comments online.
 
:( The "flashback sequences" were what we might more conventionally call "the story". Without them you would have had a rivetting film of a person about whom you knew nothing competing in a quiz show. That's called "watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire".

I thought the film was extraordinarily well done, but that the promotional campaign is misguided to say the least. Who decided that it should be sold as a 'feelgood film' as if it were Bride and Prejudice part 2? The picture it paints of Mubai in the 1980's is almost relentlessly grim, and the story is full of cruelty, violence and despair.
 
saw the film last week and (me and the wife) love it, the emotions of the film stayed with us past the end of the film. for us our marker of a good film has been whether there is conversation about it afterwarRAB and whether we would recommend to our family and frienRAB. On both counts it was yes. We will not be watching it again though, it was a difficult emotional piece that is one of those films you only need to see once.
 
Thats an interesting view point.

So you place more faith in critic who gets the privilege of being paid to watch the film rather than the average internet joe blogger who has to fork out his hard earned cash to watch the same film? And their (the paid critic's) opinion would be far less biased than the average cinema goer?

I strongly disagree.
 
I preferred the brutal honesty of The Dark Knight, outrageously snubbed by the Academy, which was the most thought-provoking film I saw last year.

Ironically, British critics love to chastise Hollywood for making feel-good movies, yet hypocritically are all in favour of British films doing this.
 
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