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HiddenDevil_
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It's fantastic! the best part about it for me was that there wasn't a particular great moment that stuck out for me, it was just at the end when you sat back and realized how the entire movie was just GOOD. there's so many movies that try to be meaningful, and this one just told a good story and ended up better than all the others. Wall-e and slumdog millionaire are my favorite movies of the year.
OhMissScarlett
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No, but I really want to see it. I loved Dev Patel in the BBC series Skins.
damppanties
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Hmmm. I guess I wasn't very impressed because it's from the part of the world where I come from.
slyc_willie
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Told ya so!
Sure as hell cleaned up, didn't it?
Hate to say it, but I have some bets to cash in on from some of the people I work with.
Seven Academy awards. I had predicted five.
Way to go, Danny.
Reading down the list . . . .
Penelope Cruz?
Overall, I'm not all that surprised. Heath Ledger and Sean Penn were shoo-ins. And it's about time for Kate Winslet.
scotsmitch2001
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good to see you can still get an oscar for just dying
ledger wouldnt have got it if he was still alive....oops pardon me,am i being cynical?cant be all that cynical i actually was suprised by slumdog....loved it!!!
also the wrestler...welcome back mickey rourke
ledger wouldnt have got it if he was still alive....oops pardon me,am i being cynical?cant be all that cynical i actually was suprised by slumdog....loved it!!!
also the wrestler...welcome back mickey rourke
slyc_willie
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My first reaction was, "don't post drunk."
Ledger's posthumous academy award was obviously affected by his demise. But, have you seen the man's films? Okay, he wasn't Jack Nicholson, he wasn't Henry Fonda (not yet, anyway) . . . still, the man had obvious and incredible talent. In time, had he lived, he would have earned a trio of golden statues on his own indisputable merits.
TheeGoatPig
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I thought Ledger's Joker performance was worth it even without his death.
Haven't seen Slumdog yet.
Haven't seen Slumdog yet.
rengadeirishman
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i wanted Mickey Rourke to win, but alas, it was not to be.
Heath Ledger was awarded a pity-Oscar that rightfully should have gone to PSH. I'd argue that he was more deserving of one in 2006, when PSH took the best actor Oscar for "Capote."
In the interest of full disclosure. I'm not a fan of "The Dark Knight." It was boring and overlong.
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I couldn't disagree more. His portrayal of the joker was enigmatic. He was frighteningly convincing as a sociopath. Couldn't take my eyes off him. I think I would have felt the same way had he still been living.
Loved Sean Penn...amazing. I would have loved to have seen Rourke get the hardware though...but that is just me being sentimental.
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Lady_Guenivere
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I think he should have got the Oscar for BB Mountain and for his role as the joker. PSH was amazing in Capote though...agreeably a tough call that year.
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absolutely, The oscars are hard to understand and the most deserving actors regularly miss out. whether it was for brokeback or the dark night he deserved an oscar.
Plus congrats to slumdog that movie throughly deserved every award it picked up.
Goldie Munro
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Im interested! Why weren't you impressed?
damppanties
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Because I've grown up watching those kind of movies. The script is very much like a number of Hindi movies that came out in the 70s (Look up Amitabh Bachchan's body of work in the 1970s if you're interested). I've already seen everything in it - multiple times. At times, it was done better than it is in Slumdog Millionaire.
Doesn't mean it wasn't good. It just wasn't better than what I had already seen. So, wasn't impressed.
eta: I was absolutely thrilled about Rahman's oscars.
Goldie Munro
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I am interested - thats why I asked! Havent seen many Bollywood films and have just googled Amitabh Bachchan. I can understand the tension that Slumdog has initiated but don' you think that it may bring Bollywood films more to prominence in the West?
damppanties
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This is another issue entirely from my not being impressed with the movie. And my impression of the movie has nothing to do with the tension it has generated. That is another issue too.
Incidentally, I don't agree with the criticism of the title or of the subject (projects a bad / wrong view of India, etc.) But as I said, that's another topic entirely.
It's good if the movie generates interest in Bollywood films but I don't think it will. It was not a Bollywood movie. It was Hollywood movie set in India and with characters who were Indian, that's all.
Goldie Munro
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You are right it is not a Bollywood movie but its not a Hollywood movie either really - but you are right it was a Western movie set in India with Indian characters - which is why I loved it - I wish you would explain why you were unimpressed with it a bit more!
damppanties
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Well, I have grown up watching the same kind of movies! Imagine if a tried and tested Hollywood movie formula (say Westerns) was regurgitated into a new movie. Even if it was a very good movie you wouldn't be absolutely thrilled with it other than saying it's a good movie. I have seen that kind of script a lot of times before. It's...usual. Done before. And therefore, not as impressive.
As I told you, the rags to riches story, the love story, the poverty -- everything's been done multiple times in Bollywood. Traffic Signal, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Bunty Aur Babli are a few of the movies that came to mind when I saw Slumdog Millionaire.
Does that explain it better?
Goldie Munro
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Yes it does - like it has in Western movies (lets face it all stories are the same!) - so this movie is just using a different focus - is that good or bad?
damppanties
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I'm not even sure it's using a different focus. It's using a different production house and a different language.
Goldie Munro
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I do understand what you are saying but I am also a fan of Danny Boyle (not just this film) and i do think that he has made a film that might just make the West sit up and notice aspects of India that they didnt before - or do ou really think he is just riding on the Bollywood bandwagon?
damppanties
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I like Danny Boyle's work too and really, I'm not panning the movie. I am just trying to tell you why it is not as impressive to me. It is a good movie (but to nod to the opening post, not the best I've seen this year. I saw Water in January and Oh my God, that was heartbreakingly beautiful. Not to say Water was released in the past year. But you know what I mean.)
No, I don't think Boyle is riding on the Bollywood bandwagon at all (is there a Bollywood bandwagon in the first place? ) Yes, I suppose the movie will make the western world take notice of India. But that was happening even before this movie - in terms of culture, places to travel to, world politics in a minor way, etc.
I'm not sure how it will affect the Hindi Film Industry, if at all, in terms of how the west views it. So... well, I don't know really what it will do. Except maybe getting more filmmakers interested in Indian subjects or casting Indian actors in their movies?
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