Slumdog Millionare. What was all the fuss about?

This thread and several others before it are about how Slumdog was over-hyped. Hardly anyone explains what they mean by over-hyped, and hardly anyone explains why they think it was more heavily hyped than other films. It's not just Avatar and The Dark Knight, every mainstream Hollywood film that reaches the UK gets a massive marketing push and hardly anyone on this forum criticises it. By-and-large they react favourably to Hollywood hype. So why is Slumdog still being discussed in this way?
 
Because Slumdog was over-hyped in the end - even if it took a bit of time for it to happen. And when I say over-hyped, I mean in that sort of way where anyone who wasn't paritcularly interested in the film was treated like a freak and the media were foaming at the mouth and wetting their pants in ecstasy every time they got the chance to so much as name drop the movie.

Clearly though, you're completely obsessed with playing the race card when it comes to anyone who doesn't appreciate the way this movie has been slobbered over. I've never seen one single other person bring up the race argument in any way in connection to less-than-delighted reactions to Slumdog before. It's just bizarre. I'm sorry - don't mean to get personal, but I cannot understand how you managed to think this argument up!
 
Totally agree with you, i watched it with my daughter( under sufference really!) and was riveted from start to finish. Loved everything about it, brilliant movie. :)
 
I watched, and I'm pretty sure I liked it. It didn't make such an impression on me that I'd want to see it again though, and I probably could have gone quite happily without seeing it at all. In other worRAB, for me it wasn't a must see film.
 
I liked and enjoyed the film a lot more than I expected.
Waited until it came on Sky so the hype had died down a lot by then.

And it was great when it won all the Oscars, even though at that point I hadn't even seen it. :D
 
There haven't been that many British movies to win Oscars in recent years, so that created alot of hype. I saw it opening weekend not knowing what to expect, and before it was hyped out of control. I thought it was good, but marketing it as a feel good movie was a bit misleading I thought. I found some of it quite distressing to watch.
 
I agree with everyone else who was disillusioned about it being a 'feelgood film' - it was really brutal in parts, not what I'd been led to expect at all. It's an alright film but I didn't find it as amazing as it was made out to be.
 
It's just because British films are rarely of a Hollywood-esque quality. When they are, they get hype (Four Weddings And A Funeral is another example).
 
I remember seeing this in the cinema a week or so after the BAFTA/OSCAR wins (we went to see something else entirely, but it was sold out, chose slumdog last minute) and loved it in the cinema. got really engrossed in it. Got it on DVD a few months later, watched it at home and half an hour in I was so bored.
 
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