Comments on: GLOBES AFTERMATH: ‘Slumdog’ landslide damages ‘Benjamin Button”; Winslet double-win unprecedented, but Cruz may still win at Oscars; Will Academy voters roll the dice with Rourke?

By: alwsdad

alwsdad — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:14:31 +0000

So is Slumdog Millionaire conservative or not? I need to know before I watch it.

By: Antimedia

Antimedia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:28:16 +0000

“The double-win for Winslet may have been a function of the fact that somehow, this brilliant young star had never won a Golden Globe or Oscar until tonight.”

This is precisely why I no longer follow Hollywood awards. Winning a Golden Globe or Oscar should have nothing to do with sentiment and everything to do with performance. Just because Susan Lucci (for example) has been second multiple times is no excuse for handing her an award simply because “she deserves it”.

If Clint’s performance in Gran Torino is the best performance of the year, he should win the award, plain and simple. If it isn’t, he shouldn’t, regardless of how much “he’s earned it”.

Hollywood disgusts me.

By: Shmulie

Shmulie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:42:42 +0000

Has anyone noticed the creative placement and coloring of subtitles in “Slumdog millionaire” present in any other movie?

If it’s new, it could make foreign films marketable to an American audience on a whole new level.

By: socalmike

socalmike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:36:02 +0000

I agree with whiskey – I wasn’t that impressed by slumdog. I saw it, liked it okay, but it didn’t stick with me the way it has obviously stuck with others. And what was with the dance thing at the end? What was that? Anyway, congrats, I guess, but I wasn’t enthralled the way others were.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:06:47 +0000

Slumdog is a horrible movie. It’s sure to produce social disasters (wrongly saying that the path to success in life and particularly love is being a good guy instead of an a-hole).

The movie doesn’t even work on it’s own terms. The girl sleeps with the a-hole gangster brother (loses her virginity to him) and only “settles” for the nice-guy loser hero. The girl is not worth getting if someone else already got her first in the story. The hero gets his brother’s discards, the girl he loved but loved the a-hole bad guy brother. What then is the point?

By: Careen Longhurst

Careen Longhurst — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:05:43 +0000

We saw the ‘flip’ out here on the West Coast, too. Mickey Rourke is as talented as he is ‘outrageously non-conformist’. Talent is talent. I loved it that they put up with his profanity and the bird flipping.
Hollywood puts up with anything ‘politically incorrect’ as long as they have ‘approved’ , directly or indirectly.
I am glad Mickey is back. Don’t know how long it will last but he sure deserves a shot at it and he got it. Good to see Maria Tomei focused on, at least by her nomination.
There are a lot of great talent in Hollywood and elsewhere. Not everyone gets the recognition they deserve. Kate Winslet has been long overdue to be recognized. How many things has she done that deserved recognition?
I particularly remember her in Sense and Sensibility. She was amazing, as she is in everything else.
I wish these people who make the decisions were a bit more objective in their choosing.
Laura Dern in ‘Recount’ as Katherin Harris is a joke. I thought Laura should have been sued over her characterization of Katherine. To say it ‘ veered toward caricature’ is a huge understatement in my view.
The concept of The Reader is so offensive to me that to see Kate, a wonderful actress in every way, rewarded for this just gives this movie recognition it does not deserve. The premise is SO wrong and offensive.

By: Thomas Talionis

Thomas Talionis — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:57:29 +0000

Slumdog is all that is good about movies.

By: R. Dittmar

R. Dittmar — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:07:25 +0000

I’m sorry, but chronicling the life and loves of a sexy, cradle-robbing concentration camp guard strikes me as the single stupidest idea for a movie in my lifetime (except maybe for Indy IV). I laugh uproariously at the very notion of Kate Winslet doing an Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S. vamp with phony accent to boot. “Ahhnd zen vee maak luff.”

By: Harley

Harley — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:49:41 +0000

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By: ModDem

ModDem — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:17:03 +0000

Raven
“Great fun”? It was grotesque.

Big uptight are we? You could have just watched 24 – because we all know violence is less grotesque than stars using bad language….