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Posted: Mar 07 2009 08:17 pm

Danny Boyle is truly an amazing director. He has proven that he can make any movie and make it well. I know everyone is all over this movie so I saw it looking to find a reason not to like it, however it has nothing to dislike. Ash gives it the 4 BoomStick seal of approval.

Posted: Mar 07 2009 08:21 pm

hear hear

Posted: Mar 07 2009 09:54 pm

Damn straight, Ash. I fell in love with that movie, can't wait to see it again, and have had "Jai Ho" playing on repeat on my ipod pretty solidly since. (I'm gonna start saying Jai Ho, I swear. Awesome phrase.) That ending credits sequence was the perfect cap to an amazing movie.

I love all of Boyle's other stuff too, especially "Sunshine." I'm so happy he won the Oscar, both for this movie and for all the other amazing shit he's done. Can't wait to see what he does next.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

I got "Jai Ho" as soon as I got home. It helped I saw the movie the same night the Oscars aired Smile

Best movie of the year and well deserving too.

It was the underground movie you spend all year looking for. Worht watching and watching more than once.

Posted: Mar 08 2009 04:09 am

And to think this was originally going to be a straight to DVD movie.

Posted: Mar 08 2009 07:28 am

I keep trying to find a reason to not watch this movie, but everyone is praising it so much, I feel it's my duty to watch it even if I don't really want to. I don't know why I don't want to see it. What's wrong with me?

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

My apologies for my absence on the forum of late... been overseas. Anyway, I feel this is a good place for me to make my re-emergence.

I'm sure I will get flamed for it since it was so well praised... but Slumdog Millionaire sucked. I love Danny Boyle. Love his work. But I found Slumdog to be beautiful, but seriously lacking. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is... I think it's the fact that I feel as though Boyle substituted plot development with "fate." In any event, I have no idea how this won Best Picture. I have yet to see the other nominees, but if this was the best of the bunch, then I don't have much hope for the others.

Also, Mickey Rourke not winning Best Actor was ridiculous. He was amazing in the Wrestler. Arnofsky might be one of my alltime favorite filmmakers.

Posted: Mar 08 2009 10:54 pm

Kubo wrote:

Also, Mickey Rourke not winning Best Actor was ridiculous. He was amazing in the Wrestler. Arnofsky might be one of my alltime favorite filmmakers.

I agree, he got shafted.

Posted: Mar 08 2009 11:41 pm

Kubo wrote:

My apologies for my absence on the forum of late... been overseas. Anyway, I feel this is a good place for me to make my re-emergence.

I'm sure I will get flamed for it since it was so well praised... but Slumdog Millionaire sucked. I love Danny Boyle. Love his work. But I found Slumdog to be beautiful, but seriously lacking. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is... I think it's the fact that I feel as though Boyle substituted plot development with "fate." In any event, I have no idea how this won Best Picture. I have yet to see the other nominees, but if this was the best of the bunch, then I don't have much hope for the others.

Also, Mickey Rourke not winning Best Actor was ridiculous. He was amazing in the Wrestler. Arnofsky might be one of my alltime favorite filmmakers.

Second the Rourke comment.

As for Slumdog, though, I don't think the script copped out by going the 'fate' route. In another movie maybe, but in this case I think it worked. It fits perfectly into the culture that the movie was celebrating, and with the fairy tale/mythological feel of the story. Personally, I found that to be a *positive*. That's me though. I can understand where, if you were looking for or expecting something more realistic, it would be annoying or disappointing. And really, none of it was that farfetched to begin with, I don't think.

Posted: Mar 15 2009 05:23 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

Kubo wrote:

My apologies for my absence on the forum of late... been overseas. Anyway, I feel this is a good place for me to make my re-emergence.

I'm sure I will get flamed for it since it was so well praised... but Slumdog Millionaire sucked. I love Danny Boyle. Love his work. But I found Slumdog to be beautiful, but seriously lacking. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is... I think it's the fact that I feel as though Boyle substituted plot development with "fate." In any event, I have no idea how this won Best Picture. I have yet to see the other nominees, but if this was the best of the bunch, then I don't have much hope for the others.

Also, Mickey Rourke not winning Best Actor was ridiculous. He was amazing in the Wrestler. Arnofsky might be one of my alltime favorite filmmakers.

Second the Rourke comment.

As for Slumdog, though, I don't think the script copped out by going the 'fate' route. In another movie maybe, but in this case I think it worked. It fits perfectly into the culture that the movie was celebrating, and with the fairy tale/mythological feel of the story. Personally, I found that to be a *positive*. That's me though. I can understand where, if you were looking for or expecting something more realistic, it would be annoying or disappointing. And really, none of it was that farfetched to begin with, I don't think.

Good words Hawk, in general I just heard that this movie is fucking terribly overrated and as a result have not been able to watch it yet.

Posted: Mar 15 2009 09:18 pm

I saw it on Thursday. Not a bad movie by any means, but it is extremely overrated. It was very predictable, especially with [SPOILER]
The orphanage owner. The minute he showed up, I was like "OK, this can't be good." There were other instances of predictability, but that was the most blatant example.
[/END SPOILER]
Overall, I'm glad I caught it at the discount theater, nothing I would pay full price for. Also, did anyone else notice that Jamal looked a hell of a lot like an Indian Michael Phelps?

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

"Overrated" is interesting with movies. While I agree for Big Budget films that it's warranted, this one came out of nowhere this past year.

Anything like that, able to become Rated... then thereby "overrated", deserves some investigation.

Posted: Mar 16 2009 01:41 pm

I saw this movie, I thought it was great. It deserved a lot of the awards that it got, in my opinion. Really I just went to see if Oscars were suffering from Grammy syndrome: giving awards undeservedly. I left the film very satisfied and not confused about much of anything.