Rate the Movie: Slumdog Millionare

8.6/10

It was a great and innovate movie that showed both parts of a huge and sprawling city. It wasn't one of the best I've seen yet still great.

What does OT think?

Feel good movie of the year? I beg to differ there...

I liked the first part where they were little, but, for the rest of the movie, I did not enjoy it much.

Feel good movie of the decade? it was depressing. . .ssj4_2004

It's like watching LOST series.... Indian stylehippiesanta

9/10
Loved it.
I like how the story was told, how every question in the show reflected on something that happened in his life.

8/10 - I liked the fashbacks. Was told in a believable manner (ie had somebody told me it was based on a true story I would of believed it). Sort of a twist on typical love stories.

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"]It's like watching LOST series.... Indian stylexaos

4; and even that feels generous.

9/10
Loved it.
I like how the story was told, how every question in the show reflected on something that happened in his life.

Sagem28

Think its kind of a dick move though that the actors that actually live in the slums didn't get their payments cause India stole it.atony12

6/10 - Shallow film; sugarcoating the reality of the social issues and relying so much on its "style" and narrative tricks that really add no other nature to the film other than to make it look less generic. I suppose it is a fairy tale, but not a very charming or endearing one.Jazz_Fan

I only watched a bit of it, and that was without subtitles. I don't have a habit of rating movies I haven't seen to their fullest extent, nor do I rate them when I don't understand the dialogue.

How was child trafficking sugar coating the reality of the social issues? I'd rate it 9/10. Its intense, exciting, beautifully performed and a deep in its ideas about how class affects our positions in society. biggest_loser

9/10 its a good film, ticks all the right boxes and does it with a fresh cast without the usual hollywood genetic passport.

besides it was the first date for me and my ex girlfriend, it holds great memory for me

It's a Winnah!!!!

9/10.

P.S. - LATIKA!!!!!

Around an 8-8.5/10 I enjoyed it, it wasn't the best picture of 08 but it wasn't a bad movie by any stretch and I still enjoyed it.

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9/10
Loved it.
I like how the story was told, how every question in the show reflected on something that happened in his life.

IceBlazerX

i rate it

"there are so many great bollywood movies that are better then this movie, but they dont get recension from Hollywood and dont win western prizes / out of 5 stars.

- also as a side note, Hollywood is biased

It was a pretty good movie, very charming and very entertaining with a nice ending, i liked it a lot.

8.5/10 for me.

9/10, thought it was excellent.

3/10.

I heard that it did terrible with Bollywood critics... Am I right?

I still didn't like it to be honest. :shock:

This movie WAS that good. 9/10. I do actually need to buy this one.

worst danny boyle movie so far,i could't believe that movie actually won so many prizes.

i liked it alot

it was pretty good...

[QUOTE="Jazz_Fan"]6/10 - Shallow film; sugarcoating the reality of the social issues and relying so much on its "style" and narrative tricks that really add no other nature to the film other than to make it look less generic. I suppose it is a fairy tale, but not a very charming or endearing one.biggest_loser

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"]How was child trafficking sugar coating the reality of the social issues? I'd rate it 9/10. Its intense, exciting, beautifully performed and a deep in its ideas about how class affects our positions in society. Jazz_Fan

Those scenes where they're taught how to beg are more grounded than the others. Like the scene where the kids eye is burnt out are not done with the hyperkinetic styIe. The humour from the earlier scenes has nothing to do with them. If anything it probably makes them more powerful because you're not expecting it. Its styIe adds a dream-like/fantasy quality to a lot of scenes, which I suspect is complimented by how artificial the game show is.

It shows how society shapes it reality by comparing and contrasting their upbringings and their fates - like being covered in feces, escaping fanatical attacks or forced to beg - with their later lives and goals, such as how Salim authority in his life by becoming a criminal and standing over others through physical force. Or how with Jamal he was just willing to take a chance for something he believed, even though people look down on him (working in a call center, by interrogated by the police, everyone believes he must be cheating)Even the city itself changes from a slum to a high rise metropolis.

Think of it as like a Dickens story of sorts.

5/!0

About as average as it gets.

I havent seen it and I don't care.