just saw Slumdog Millionaire - what did folks think of it?

[tigereye]

It was a brilliant, powerful and disturbing film. I thought the young actors were wonderful, and it was an extremely clever. I also liked the video look if it, it reminded me of various Brit dramas.


I hope it wins a lot of awards.

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. I saw it a couple days ago myself

I too thought it was very good, very effectively directed and filmed. I have seen five better movies than it this year, but that's only because this was an exceptional year for movies, IMHO.

[tigereye]

2. there were so many good films, commercial and indie this year

I recently saw Doubt (excellent acting and questioning), Milk (very inspiring but sad and great acting from Penn), Benjamin Button (great story, acting and visual effects, but kind of left me cold). It was a great Christmas for movies... And I still haven't seen The Wrestler or The Reader.


I'm trying to think of other films I saw this past year.... :think: Nothing is coming to mind immediately. Wait, I liked Cadillac Records and the recent Batman film. I'll have to think a bit more about what happened prior to fall of last year.

[EastTennesseeDem]

3. My five favorites

-The Dark Knight
-Wall-E
-Let the Right One In
-Frost/Nixon
-The Wrestler

Milk would probably finish a close seventh to Slumdog. That list is unranked but Let the Right One In is first.

Then you got Waltz with Bashir, Ballast, and my favorite documentary "At the Death House Door".

[tigereye]

4. Wall E was very good -

I haven't seen Frost-Nixon yet either!

[tigereye]

5. kick

[hunter]

6. Parts of it were very disturbing.

It's not a "feel good" date movie.

[tigereye]

7. no, unless you were dating a film student, or something...

it's great to see a "foreign" film do so well here, and elicit so much interest, though. Perhaps it might make people more aware of conditions outside the US. I've seen a lot of indie films about India, but never one that dealt so bluntly with police corruption, brutality, and the rampant cultural indifference to poverty.