slumdog millionaire has a very disconcerting effect of having EVERY SINGLE INDIAN PERSON be evil and the only, ONLY, good character was a white woman who says, no joke, "if this is india...let me show you america" and gives him 100 dollars. everyone laughed at this but then the laughter died when we realized it was being played at face value.

also it's a shitty movie don't watch it.

I'm surprised about that, I was quite looking forward to seeing it. It's #161 on the top 250 on imdb at the moment, I wonder if it's all hype though

it is. first off a good 80% of the movie you already know what happens from the trailer; he's obviously one question away from the grand prize, so any sense of drama is kind of removed by the knowledge that he's 1. clearly alone here and 2. he obviously gets the questions right to a point. there is a hilarious depiction of India as this third world nation and I'm the first person to admit child prositution, begging, gangsterism, religious violence, all run rampant in India, but yeah no one gets shit on as much as this Jamal kid does. everything's just so awful in India...the world's shittiest country...BUT HERE'S THE AMERICAN SAVING THE DAY! dialogue is just painfully bad ("come away with me" "and live on what?" "...love" REALLY GUY), it's heavy handed as fuck (for no reason a character empties out all this cash into a tub and has a final standoff in it lying in it just because I guess overwrought symbology is how he chose to make his OK Corral), incredibly predictable, and in general deserves Oscar consideration for its depiction of India about as much as Crash deserved it for its depiction of race relations.

fun fact though; a millionaire is not a thing in India. it's not significant, it's like someone saying "I'm a hundred thousander!" the currency doesn't allow for millionaire to be a status. it is in crore, or TEN million, that you get the status of rich dude. so the indian show is kaun banega crorepati, or who will be a ten millionaire, instead of who wants to be a millionaire. so the guy never says HE'S A MILLIONAIRE until Jamal hits the ten mill mark despite having made millions already. to further confuse matters, he does not call him a crorepati; he still calls him a millionaire. so he uses a meaningless term to describe the wrong thing! tell your friends, show off.

it is. first off a good 80% of the movie you already know what happens from the trailer; he's obviously one question away from the grand prize, so any sense of drama is kind of removed by the knowledge that he's 1. clearly alone here and 2. he obviously gets the questions right to a point. there is a hilarious depiction of India as this third world nation and I'm the first person to admit child prositution, begging, gangsterism, religious violence, all run rampant in India, but yeah no one gets shit on as much as this Jamal kid does. everything's just so awful in India...the world's shittiest country...BUT HERE'S THE AMERICAN SAVING THE DAY! dialogue is just painfully bad ("come away with me" "and live on what?" "...love" REALLY GUY), it's heavy handed as fuck (for no reason a character empties out all this cash into a tub and has a final standoff in it lying in it just because I guess overwrought symbology is how he chose to make his OK Corral), incredibly predictable, and in general deserves Oscar consideration for its depiction of India about as much as Crash deserved it for its depiction of race relations.

fun fact though; a millionaire is not a thing in India. it's not significant, it's like someone saying "I'm a hundred thousander!" the currency doesn't allow for millionaire to be a status. it is in crore, or TEN million, that you get the status of rich dude. so the indian show is kaun banega crorepati, or who will be a ten millionaire, instead of who wants to be a millionaire. so the guy never says HE'S A MILLIONAIRE until Jamal hits the ten mill mark despite having made millions already. to further confuse matters, he does not call him a crorepati; he still calls him a millionaire. so he uses a meaningless term to describe the wrong thing! tell your friends, show off.

I am completely not surprised by any of this. 

Also I remember when the topic was made for this movie and I was the first person to say "this looks really bad" and then you came in and said the same thing and then everybody started saying "I agree with Steel"; fuck you Steel stop stealing my thunder!!!

I watched body of evidence and kindsy. They was sick.

It would have been Synecdoche, New York if I could ever find it playing. So instead it was a dvd rip of Burn After Reading streamed from my computer to my 360 (most awesome feature btw).

Wow there was a thread for this movie and it was getting alot of attention, people seemed to be looking foward to it.. really suprised to hear its not a good movie.

you'll like it.

just rewatched The Wall.
it's visually appealing and creative, as well as the fact I love the music beyond anything in this world... but I feel there's no real substance to it as a 'film'. Still good though (providing you're willing to watch it as if it's one massive music video).

Pulp Fiction..


Fuck I love that movie.

Last night I watched The Dark Knight, The Prestige, and American Psycho (yes, I had a Christian Bale-fest).

Just watched Nightmare Before Christmas with the family.
I'm thinking of forcing them to watch it every christmas.

Pan's Lab was on the other night... I do love it for it's mixing of Fantasy and war genres. Brilliant in my opinion.

Watched dog day afternoon

great movie.....

I watched Santa's Slay.  It's like Terminator, except instead of a killer robot from the future, it's Santa played by a pro wrestler.

Last night I watched The Dark Knight, The Prestige, and American Psycho (yes, I had a Christian Bale-fest).

should have thrown in a little of "the machinist". have you seen it?