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""Slumdog Millioniare" needs fixing"

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Blogger Danindc said...

Didn't see Slumdog but didn't they steal the plot from that Cheers episode where every question pertained to Cliff Clavin's life? He was way ahead but still bet it all on Final Jeopardy and lost- I think his answer in response to some question about the similarities of three famous people was:

Who are three people that have never been in my kitchen?

1/22/09, 1:35 PM

Anonymous Takahata Yuichi said...

I thought this was a terrible movie.

Why is it even set in India? The cliched premise and execution could have taken place anywhere.

When I first heard of it I thought people would finally exploit the incredible unique and bizzare experience of modern Indian cities, where big business and shiny buildings sit near shantytown slums, where universities and research centers go on their daily routines while a few miles away illiterate children beg for money.

Instead the film gives us some cultureless, stale depiction of some "underworld" that could be located in about a hundred places around the world. What a waste of a setting.

1/22/09, 2:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"When I first heard of it I thought people would finally exploit the incredible unique and bizzare experience of modern Indian cities, where big business and shiny buildings sit near shantytown slums, where universities and research centers go on their daily routines while a few miles away illiterate children beg for money."

That description isn't really unique to India. You could just as well have been describing Sao Paulo.

Dave

1/22/09, 3:26 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's based on a book called "Q & A" that takes place in India/

1/22/09, 3:36 PM

Anonymous nsam said...

steve.. you got it right.. I think this was far less engrossing than it might have been..

1/22/09, 3:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Why is it even set in India? The cliched premise and execution could have taken place anywhere."

So that American movie critics would be so busy drooling over the movie's exotic setting that they wouldn't notice how corny and clumsy the story is.

1/22/09, 3:50 PM

Blogger Daniel said...

In response to those complaining that the setting was stale and insignificant, I just wanted to point out newsy.com's coverage about the story and what some people had to say about the setting. The story should be pretty close to the front page.

1/22/09, 4:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I liked it, but I will have to plead guilty to being corny and sentimental.

1/22/09, 4:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I liked it too and found the exotic setting to be very appealing. I would agree that the time shifts did not add anything to the narrative flow and, in fact, worked against the overall tone of the movie.

1/22/09, 5:02 PM

Anonymous SFG said...

Steve--that's the intellectual's approach to the movie. You want to rack your brain thinking, "Could this be the answer to the gun?" That requires too much thought. People want to connect emotionally to the movie, so the way they did it cuts out the higher brain functions.

1/22/09, 5:56 PM

Blogger Ronduck said...

That description isn't really unique to India. You could just as well have been describing Sao Paulo.

Dave


Or even here in parts of America.

1/23/09, 5:17 AM

Blogger PrestoPundit said...

The fraud occurred in English as well.

On my street a criminal broker bought and sold houses to himself -- and a huge markup, giving a kickback to the people who agreed to "buy" the house, and then default on the loan.

This brought 2 prostitutes into one house -- and folks who refuted to pay for garbage collection into another.

Calls the the FBI, to the Justice Department, and to the local police did nothing.

These criminals lived on my very short street for 2 years, spiking home values, then crashing them.

One of the houses is identical to my own.

The houses were trashed, inside and out.

Good job, Bushie.

1/23/09, 7:42 PM

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