Slumdog Millionaire? I just saw it and find it .....better than OK.

[chelsea0011]

I don't understand the over-the-top love for this movie. I found it a nice watchable movie like many others. Anybody completely bowled over by this movie?

[Kittycat]

1. Refuse to watch it... Exploitation of Child Labor

[mainer]

2. I was. But I found it extremely upsetting.

It was a fairy tale -- let's get that straight. But it was also a feel-good movie, even if the characters had to go through hell to get their happy ending.

[xenussister]

3. I've seen it 3 times, love it

It wasn't my favorite movie of the year (that would be Milk and Tarsem's The Fall) but I'm thrilled that it's getting all these awards. I'm an awards junkie and it's been a jauggernaut, winning all the precursors leading up to the Academy Awards (it got 10 nominations, and it will win many of those).

I love the fact that a small indie movie by a cult genre filmmaker, not starring any recognizable actors, mostly in the Hindi language, with subtitles, and Indian music, is garnering so much attention to the point of being a frontrunner to win the Oscar.

This just doesn't ever happen. I'm rooting for Milk to win Best Picture, but I can deal with it if Slumdog wins. I'll be ecstatic in fact. Like last year, my favorite movie was There Will Be Blood, but I was more than ok that the Coen Brothers won instead.

[nancyr]

4. I loved it. Yes, I was bowled over by it.

[Triana]

5. I just saw it yesterday....

....not bowled over by it. In one way it's a pretty typical boy-meets-girl / boy-gets-girl (and the money) in the end type of plot. In fact that's about 50% of the film. The rest seems almost built around that. Not a very original plot. It's a good film. Not the greatest but good.

I guess Dev Patel (aka Slumdog) is having a good time with the beauty Freida Pinto - everywhere he is, she is. He's 18 years old - with a black belt in TaiKwonDo. Pretty amazing kid.

[wtmusic]

6. Loved everything but Dev Patel's wooden performance nt

[Smarm E. Doofus]

7. OK movie. Pretty much forgot all about it ten minutes after...

... I left the theater.

Now..."Doubt", OTOH, is still with me; and it's been a couple of weeks.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. I like stories I haven't seen before, and this one held my interest

I saw it in a sneak preview right before the Mumbai terrorist incident, so some of the scenes in the film stuck with me.

It gets fairy tale like at the end, but the way the kids survived in hellish situations held my interest.

[mackerel]

9. A friend of mine just wrote and raved on and on about the

film. He said in his entire live he had never enjoyed a film as much. Many others I have spoken to say it's good but all relative to the films of this year. Not sure it's a classic that will stand the test of time.