Slumdog Millionaire

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I'm glad it won. It deserved it. It was definitely one of the best movies I've ever watched.

And to think, I tried to pressure them into watching Gran Torino instead!

 

[uscitizen]

Is this an Academy award thing?

 

[Minister of Truth]

The Dark Knight was the best movie of 2008. I never even watched Batman Begins all the way through until I saw it. In fact, I set a personal record and watched it 6 times, smashing my record of 3 times seeing Phantom Menace.

But, whatever...

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

The Dark Knight doesn't hold a candle to Slumdog Millionaire.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Is this an Academy award thing?

ZOMGZ HOW DAREZ YOU METNIONS AFCEDEMY AWARDZ ITS DOENS'T MEAN NOTHING...

*Insert more USC platitudes here*

 

[Minister of Truth]

The Dark Knight doesn't hold a candle to Slumdog Millionaire.

Aside from being the best film of 2008? No.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Aside from being the best film of 2008? No.

I can think of a dozen films better than the Dark Knight that were made in 2008, the best of them being Slumdog Millionaire.

 

[Minister of Truth]

I can think of a dozen films better than the Dark Knight that were made in 2008, the best of them being Slumdog Millionaire.

Strangely enough, I cannot. The Dark Knight is a great film, and one reason why is that it transcends the superhero genre and emerges as a morality play. Even Iron Man, the next best superhero of the year, and touted as one of the greatest superhero flicks of all-time, is not the sort of movie you would ever expect to see contending for best picture.

Dark Knight had story, acting (a truly outstanding cast, including Ledger, Eckhart, Oldman, Freeman, Caine and Richie Coster), the usual effects, director... It was all there, and it was deep as well as fun. I mean, its always fun to see humanity at its darkest and weakest state.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

The Dark Knight doesn't hold a candle to Slumdog Millionaire.

ding ding ding we have a winner.

dark knight is super overrated.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Strangely enough, I cannot. The Dark Knight is a great film, and one reason why is that it transcends the superhero genre and emerges as a morality play. Even Iron Man, the next best superhero of the year, and touted as one of the greatest superhero flicks of all-time, is not the sort of movie you would ever expect to see contending for best picture.

Dark Knight had story, acting (a truly outstanding cast, including Ledger, Eckhart, Oldman, Freeman, Caine and Richie Coster), the usual effects, director... It was all there, and it was deep as well as fun. I mean, its always fun to see humanity at its darkest and weakest state.

I don't really consider morality plays deep. The Dark Knight was the best superhero film of all time, to be sure, but to be fair it doesn't have a lot of competition there.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

Strangely enough, I cannot. The Dark Knight is a great film, and one reason why is that it transcends the superhero genre and emerges as a morality play. .

yes it must have had just the right amount of explosions and car chases for you.

 

[Minister of Truth]

ding ding ding we have a winner.

dark knight is super overrated.

I didn't have any expectations for it when I first went to see it. I had heard "best superhero film everz," but that wasn't exactly a boost to my expectations, and I hadn't been a fan of the first movie, which I didn't see on the screen, and watched one night in my dorm room when I was exhausted and fell asleep during watching it.

The Dark Knight was the best superhero film of all time, to be sure, but to be fair it doesn't have a lot of competition there.

That's true - no disagreement there. And on another note, I would say the Null did the genre a huge service by proving it can be reputable. Just like Shakespeare did for the English by going against the critics of his time who said that English could not be deep, like Italian, in sonnet form.

yes it must have had just the right amount of explosions and car chases for you.

If that was the case, I would be supporting mindless action films like Wanted for Best Picture.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

Here is every major movie released in 2008:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_movies

Of all those, these are the best:

1.) Doubt
2.) Synecdoche NY
3.) Slumdog
4.) The wreslter
5.) Frost/Nixon

Rest in no particular order

the bank job
wall e
changeling
gran tarino

 

[Minister of Truth]

The Bank Job wasn't very good. I'm also surprised that Gran Torino, which I thought was excellent, has received as much praise as it did.

 

[Damocles]

"Wall e" just plain sucked poop through straws.

 

[Minister of Truth]

"Wall e" just plain sucked poop through straws.

Yeah, I haven't been tempted to see the latest Pixar films, but I will inevitably wind up seeing Ratatouie and WALL-E eventually...

I'm of the opinion that Pixar will never top The Incredibles.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

"Wall e" just plain sucked poop through straws.

I'd like to inform the audience that Damo's "best book of all time" is Dune. No need to say more.

 

[Damocles]

I'd like to inform the audience that Damo's "best book of all time" is Dune. No need to say more.

Dune is "one of my favorites" and my favorite sci-fi book is "Stranger in a Strange Land" or "Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Shogun is my "best book of all time" in the fiction category. But, as I said before, these things change with how I feel at the moment. I have well over 3,000 fiction books downstairs. Many of which can be said to be excellent.

 

[Timshel]

Here is every major movie released in 2008:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_movies

Of all those, these are the best:

1.) Doubt
2.) Synecdoche NY
3.) Slumdog
4.) The wreslter
5.) Frost/Nixon

Rest in no particular order

the bank job
wall e
changeling
gran tarino

You've seen all of these?

 

[Timshel]

Wall-E was decent. I don't think it was worthy of a nomination. The story was lacking and some of the premises were ridiculous. I liked that a lot of the story was told without words, though.