Was it good? Yes.Was it Best Picture worthy? Eh, for my money Frozen River claims that honor but you also have to factor in the fact that I have not seen the other films that were nominated.
They should have given acting awards to the kids who played the youngest versions of the main characters, I'm telling you they were freakin' great. Not that the others were bad by any means, I'm just saying the youngest of the youngsters were the best.
I liked the mass dance sequence at the end, it was kind of cathartic.
My only quibble with the film was the use of the subtitles. Not the ones we had to turn on because we had a hard time understanding some of the actor's English, although to be fair, their English is waaaaay better than my Hindi will ever be. The subtitles I'm talking about were the ones that came up when the characters spoke Hindi. They used a tiny font and they put them in colored boxes that blended in with the backgrounds. It may have worked on the big screen but on our TV it didn't work at all and it made for frustrating viewing.
All in all Slumdog was a good film that I'm glad I finally saw. Would I see it again and again? Probably not, but it was worth investing a couple of hours in once.
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I liked it too, but I finally saw Frozen River and I thought it was great. Slumdog was good.
I liked it. Didn't see "Frozen River". Loved "Defiance", but it is more of a guy movie.
I liked it. It was neat how the story was told through "Who wants to be a 'millon-air!" (that's millon, not million). Is millionaire really that hard to pronounce? I wondered why they spoke Hindi early in the film, then all of a sudden they spoke English (thank God).
I've resisted seeing it, largely because I'm afraid of the violence/torture.
I'll have to go see Frozen River. I loved Slumdog Millonaire (and the way the host said that, too).
My favorite part was the outhouse scene. I was howling. I think you're right about the children actors. They rocked that film.
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