Slumdog millionaire...make it stop.

Go on get it out of your system and see the movie.

On one hand, you're bitter and twisted.

On the other hand you more than likely will have an enjoyable 2 hours in the cinema.

Surely you'd prefer the happy option?
It's not like you're being asked to watch Britney Spears...


And for the record, it will sweep the oscars whether you like it or not.
 
Unlike many films that get this level of hype it's definitely worth watching. The Dark Knight was similar in that regard. Though anyone with any sense was expecting it to be brilliant way before the hype even started. It was seeing The Prestige (the film Christopher Nolan made before TDK) that convinced me we were in for something special. Batman Begins was great too, but obviously just a starting point for where Nolan wanted to take Batman.
 
trainspotting is really good :) i will wait for this slumdog millionaire film to appear on sky movies premiere, i am in no great rush to see it. next year maybe
 
I saw it the other day and I don't remember it being over hyped, maybe I wasn't looking at the same channels as others. I thought it was good, but not a patch on Mama Mia which seems to have been left out of the Oscars :( and so too has The Dark Knight which I thought was brilliant !!!
 
Still going on about this film on BBC News 24!

The first 13 minutes of the hour was dedicated to the film winning awarRAB, including a live interview with the director's parents(!), from some Darby and Joan club or other. Then a recording of the prime minister congratulating everyone to do with the film.

Finally afterwarRAB, "in other news" they briefly mentioned the suicide bomb in Egypt for three minutes... then going back live to Hollywood to stretch out the news of the awarRAB for the film. Where is the other important news?

I think it's sad that everyone is going on about the film, the director, the actors, etc etc etc... no-one seems to have given any thought to the millions of people who live in squalor in India, typically in shanty towns without any sanitation facilities.

As long as the people involved in the film are lining their pockets massively, everything is okay? Sorry for the rant, but it does wind me up a little...

-rapido
 
But being on Millionaire was the secondary part really. The flashbacks were the film. I thought they had the balance right, otherwise the film would have been about winning Millionaire not how he knew the answers which would have been crap.

You could have had a film without the Millionaire backdrop with a little extra padding but then it would have been like loaRAB of other movies (and the name would need to be changed ;)).
 
Yes how dare this country produce anything good enough to win 8 Oscars all we ever do and want to been known for is crap! :rolleyes:

Poster's attitudes here are the reason this country stinks.

Bad attitude! (Called the Hamilton effect: If something is too good Slumdog, Hamilton, Ray Quinn, etc then attack our own or we may lose our world position as laughing stock)

Grow up and evolve: Learn to celebrate, promote and support talent for a change rather then carrying on this British disease that we caught from our parents.
 
I completely agree! I watched this yesterday and I have to say I thought it was good but not as good as what I was led to expect!

I'm not sure why it is promoted as a 'feel - good movie' as i felt quite depressed through most of it until the end where they did the Bollywood dance routine at the end!! :D

But still a movie worth watching!!
 
But it's not really "good" is it? It's manipulative twaddle. There were many much better movies this year that will be remembered long after this year's Driving Miss Daisy.
 
I feel pretty much like that about Calendar Girls. I don't know if it won Oscars or not, but it was highly hyped and I thought it was about 45 minutes too long.

Still, to win 8 Oscars I suspect that SM must be fairly good and as I've already said, I look forward to seeing it on TV :)
 
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