My blood is tested +ve for Java.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
.. And I thought, "what does this movie have to do with magicians?"
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
SCJP 5.0 and now fighting with ExtJS
That, to me, is Slumdog Millionaire: contrived, pretentious, absurd, hollow, inauthentic, a pseudo-statement about social justice. And yet today the film stands on the precipice of Hollywood's highest honour, the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Martha Simmons wrote:RKS review of film by rediff
http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2009/jan/29is-slumdog-worth-it.htm
Wow, that's I think is the best review of SM I read so far. Thanks, Ravish.
That, to me, is Slumdog Millionaire: contrived, pretentious, absurd, hollow, inauthentic, a pseudo-statement about social justice. And yet today the film stands on the precipice of Hollywood's highest honour, the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
rediff wrote:
Say an Indian director travelled to New Orleans for a few months to film a movie about Jamal Martin, an impoverished African American who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, who once had a promising basketball career, but who -- following a drive-by shooting -- now walks with a permanent limp, whose father is in jail for selling drugs, whose mother is addicted to crack cocaine, whose younger sister was killed by gang-violence, whose brother was arrested by corrupt cops, whose first born child has sickle cell anaemia, and so on. The movie would be widely panned and laughed out of theatres.
MH
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:
Has this guy ever been to the movies in the US? They make the movie he describes about six times a year.
Michael Ernest wrote:
In any event, the movie critic who thinks the Academy Awards are high and serious honors has a long and frustrating career ahead of him. The bias in their selections is so intense that the same ideas win over and over again. If Slumdog had made some tie-in to Nazi Germany I'd place a bet on the outcome right now.
Devesh wrote:The critic meant that in a sarcastic way from what i could make out of my comprehension
Henry wrote:Maybe I am jaded, but when a critic goes to such an opposite extreme from the norm -- in these days where everyone is a critic and has a blog... I wonder, in the back of my mind, if the critic is trying to get their 15 minutes of fame, in a Jerry Springer sort of way.
Arjun Shastry wrote:
Rahman is definitely good music director but songs in this movie are not something in genius category.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it
Sujai Kaarthik wrote:How many of you have saw Taare Zameen Par here?
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
But no doubt that it is much better than SM in terms of music and story line
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it
Maneesh Godbole wrote:All the so called awards, are rigged.
Nicolas Cage got an Oscar for best actor. Sanjay Dutt got a Filmfare for best actor.
I rest my case.
My blood is tested +ve for Java.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Ananth Chellathurai [Walk on software]
Likewise, I wonder how many of singing idol Englebert Humperdink's panty-throwing fans actually know about the opera made from "Hansel and Gretel".Mike Simmons wrote:I'm pretty he knows that, now. That's why he wrote "I'm so ashamed." Let's leave the man his dignity., or what's left of it
The 2 films I would recommend from last/this year are slumdog and In Bruges. Both excellent films with great stories. The story is the film, and that's all she wrote
Frank Silbermann wrote:
Likewise, I wonder how many of singing idol Englebert Humperdink's panty-throwing fans actually know about the opera made from "Hansel and Gretel".Mike Simmons wrote:I'm pretty he knows that, now. That's why he wrote "I'm so ashamed." Let's leave the man his dignity., or what's left of it
Mike Simmons wrote:
Frank Silbermann wrote:Likewise, I wonder how many of singing idol Englebert Humperdink's panty-throwing fans actually know about the opera made from "Hansel and Gretel".
Hah, yes.
I once worked at a company where one of the big bosses was named Walter Scott. I was always tempted to ask him to sign a copy of Ivanhoe for me. I mentioned this to others a few times. Most of my co-workers didn't get it.