Films

[williamjm]

I went to see "Slumdog Millionaire" today at the cinema. It has been hyped up a lot recently, but I thought it mostly lived up to the hype, it was a very good film. I did think the flashbacks and the interrogation were better than the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? bit of the film, where Jamal's behaviour doesn't seem entirely consistent (I realise that winning the money isn't his main motivation in being there, but I think it is implausible that he is quite so cavalier about the possibility of losing everything), but despite the title the Millionaire bit of the film isn't really the main part of the story. Other than that I thought the rest of the film worked well, there was some great acting particularly by the child actors and I thought the soundtrack was excellent as well.

I think I would be a fairly deserving Oscar winner if it does win, although I think there is still plenty of potential for one of the other nominated films to be better than it - it's the first of the Oscar nominees that I've seen. I'm not sure I'm really that interested in seeing most of the other nominees - the trailers for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button just look dull and I have no interest in seeing The Reader either. I might consider seeing Frost/Nixon since the trailer does look reasonably good, and I haven't really seen any trailers for Milk, the final nominee so I've no idea what that might be like.

Comments

[zollo-the-fat.livejournal.com]

Yes, saw it yesterday myself and I loved it. Great music, good story, good acting, gripping reality of the slums in India and how tough life is, particularly if you are a slumdog.

It is crazy out there at the moment, so many (potentially) good stuff coming out / has come out: Defiance (seen it, turned out to be alright, tho no must see), Revolutionary Road, TCCoBB (interesting based on trailer), 7 Pounds, Doubt, ...one I forget the name of, The Reader, Valkyrie, Frost/Nixon, Underworld. Where will I find the time?!

[williamjm.livejournal.com]

It often seems to be the way with cinema release schedules that there's nothing decent to watch for months and then lots of films come along at once.

[fenryng.livejournal.com]

Of the ones you listed, Milk and Frost/Nixon are the ones that I want to see at some point. Other than that, meh.