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who wants to be a slumdog!

PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Social Entropy++
this is a thread about the new danny boyle

slumdog millionaire

if you have seen it, talk about seeing it
if you have not seen it, talk about why you haven't seen it
i am going to see it tonight
talk about how much i will be seeing it

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it is pretty much really good

    about india and all that

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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    You are going to see the shit out of it.

    I saw it and had a great time.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited December 2008
    i haven't seen it because I've never heard of it

    i've never seen any danny boyle movies

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I still have no idea what the movie is all about.

    According to the trailor it is about winning awards and having stars.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd like to see it but all the good films come out next month.
    :(

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i thought the trailer was fairly self explanatory

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    is this about poor people? I don't like to watch movies about poor people.

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    this was pretty good

    i wish it was more in hindi

    anil kumar speaking game show host english was funny

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  • Fire TruckFire Truck I love my SELFRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Shouldn't this thread title be a question?

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    who wants to be a millionaire, just like everyone else

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Phonehand wrote: »
    who wants to be a millionaire, just like everyone else

    Not everyone.

    most billionaires, for example, don't want to be millionaires.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    the story doesnt sound that great, didnt really grab me when i heard about it

    great movie though
    the whole game show thing is done in a way that drives the story pretty well and adds to it without overwhelming it or anything
    if that makes sense (i just woke up from heat after like 2 hours sleep from a night of nye drinking)

    so if you were describing it briefly you could skip any mention of the gameshow because thats not what the movie is about

    everyone watch this

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I liked it a lot, but I did think that
    there was no real basis for the dude loving that girl as much as he did
    but that doesn't actually matter and it's a good story.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    yea thats true
    just kinda somethin you gotta accept and not worry about too much
    just think
    maybe, it is written

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  • Rampant EntityRampant Entity Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Nothing is written.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited December 2008
    Keith wrote: »
    i haven't seen it because I've never heard of it

    i've never seen any danny boyle movies
    Go watch Sunshine.

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  • Rampant EntityRampant Entity Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I like the villain in Sunshine.
    He was all like, "I HAVE TALKED TO GOD FOR SEVEN YEARS! HUMANITY MUST DIE ALONG WITH THE SUN!" And killed people with vibrating scalpels.

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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I still don't know what I think of Sunshine's villain. The movie was all setting itself up one way and then makes a sudden, violent right angle turn into another genre entirely. I liked the movie, I'm pretty sure.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    this movie is pretty fantastic guys

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Bogey wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    i haven't seen it because I've never heard of it

    i've never seen any danny boyle movies
    Go watch Sunshine.

    Oh Bogey, Keith has enough disappointment in his life.
    You're so cruel.

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  • baglerbagler Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    DUDE WHAT THE GUCK IS GOOOOIIIIINNNNNGNNNGNNGNNGNNGNSJKJKSJJWBNSLFJLJFSSFJLKJ8IJLJKJL.SJFLLSFJFSJLSFJL ON??IM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT! BEETHOVEN HAS EATEN MY CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP AND NOW SINCE HE HAS WEAK STOMACH HE IS GOING TO PUKE EVERYWHERE!!!! ITS ON THE SOFA DUDE THAT FUCKING SUCKS THERE IS LIKE PUKE ON THE COUCH AND I HAVE TO SIT THERE TO WATCH TV AND STUFF AND NOW THERE IS GONNA BE PUKE ON MY BUTT DAMN GIANT FUCKING DOG IT PUKED EVERYWHERE DID YOU SEE IT? IT LIKE EXPLODED OUT OF ITS MOUTH AND WENT ON THE COUCH AND I HAD TO SIT ON IT... I WANT MY CHICKEN FUCKING SOUP

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    if you're gonna be a dick about it you're not gonna get it now

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I like the villain in Sunshine.
    He was all like, "I HAVE TALKED TO GOD FOR SEVEN YEARS! HUMANITY MUST DIE ALONG WITH THE SUN!" And killed people with vibrating scalpels.

    I actually thought it was rather tempered for a Boyle movie in that regard. I expected much more mindfuckery. As it turned out it was explained rather well, other than the very final scene which to be fair is allowed that level of weirdness because of the relation to the whole relativity thing traveling at that speed.

    Still, I really enjoyed Sunshine. Crafted so well and for an almost implausibly low budget (something around 20 million which for a sci fi movie with that many effects is hilariously cheap)

    In regards to Slumdog Millionaire, I think the movie is great. It is worth a watch for sure and certainly has a nice tone. The acting is decent but as mentioned, I think some plot elements are clumsily handled and it could have been better. The script I think is the weakest link, an awful lot of the dialogue felt woefully pedestrian at times.

    I can't imagine being disappointed with it. It's good but I dont think it reaches the highs that, say, Millions did which deals with pretty much the same themes.

    But I keep hearing it has a shitload of Oscar buzz especially for Boyle and I'm finding it hard to see that. Though it is certainly a good movie I think it is ultimately a bit of a letdown. It could have been great if some of the more tenuous stuff was resolved.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    you just hate indians

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  • FunnyFreakFunnyFreak Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I haven't seen the movie, but I plan on seeing it this weekend. I hope its good.

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    god the stupid indie theater closed early tonight so i didn't get to see it

    i am glad that they didn't post it on their website and i drove half an hour just to find that out

    i ended up just going to a party down there instead

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The Who Wants to be a Millionaire Indian version is retardedly easy. If you chose the wrong answer the host asks you a dozen times if you are sure, while right answers will be accepted immediately. At least when it was on the air a few years ago.

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  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    This movie was fantastic. I was told basically nothing about it before I watched it, except that it was good and it was a sort of "rags to riches" story (the latter ended up not really being true, except superficially).

    I also never realized just how terrible life is for a lot of Indians.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    also how they connected the stories to the questions was super good except for
    the Samuel Colt question

    it seemed a bit too convenient that Salim just happened to have a Colt .45 and Jamal just assumed that Colt invented it

    I can think of two other old brands of revolvers off the top of my head

    but I guess I'm nitpicking

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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I just took it to be that that was the only one he recognized, so it was just a guess.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    yeah I suppose

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    unless his bro was all
    check this shit out
    this thing is goddamn perfect and i love it
    invented in ____
    by expert craftsman _______
    this fucking thing in my hand is great and no you cannot touch it

    at some earlier time

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    the what does ram hold in his right hand question was mishandled i think

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Air wrote: »
    unless his bro was all
    check this shit out
    this thing is goddamn perfect and i love it
    invented in ____
    by expert craftsman _______
    this fucking thing in my hand is great and no you cannot touch it

    at some earlier time

    wrong
    the only thing he said was "the man with the colt .45 has the power" or something

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  • VirumVirum Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    This movie is fantastic in every sense. Plot, Editing, Cinematography, Sound, it all comes together to form one of the best movie experiences of the year. My only regret is I saw it in a class from a DVD sent to guild and academy members and not in the theater.

    As for the question thing...
    He only picked Colt because that was a name familiar to him, nothing extraordinary about it... remember he wasn't playing to win, so he didn't care if it was right or wrong. He just went with the best guess he had besides randomly picking, and that was the knowledge that Colt is a revolver, maybe a guy named Colt invented it.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    i meant offscreen


    also i am pretty sure i once saw that same question on who wants to be a millionaire
    and that i had no idea

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  • BjacobsBjacobs Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    i saw doubt today.
    it was pretty good.


    i'll never see slumdog millioinare, since its not in theatres here.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Bjacobs wrote: »
    i saw doubt today.
    it was pretty good.


    i'll never see slumdog millioinare, since its not in theatres here.

    uh

    what if if comes to theatres there

    also Doubt's out in the 15th here man Australia is terrible

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    Excellent film, I highly recommend this to you all.

    :)

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    you have excellent taste Bogey

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