"Money and women: the reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both."

And the Oscar for best end-credits sequence goes to... Wait, Best Picture? Like, for the whole year? I mean, it was good, and I understand Speed Racer never had a chance at the award, but this is the year that gave us WALL-E and Synecdoche, New York, surely they're more impressive than—they weren't even nominated? Come on people, get it together!

Slumdog Millionaire is a movie which strangely doesn't understand its own material. It opens with the question:

Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it?
A: He cheated
B: He's lucky
C: He's a…

Performances : 6.8/10
Story : 6.6/10
Production : 5.5/10
Overall : 6.3/10

I only vaguely remember watching Trainspotting but Trance was one of my favorite films to be released last year so needless to say I was pretty exciting to take a trip back to 2008 and visit Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. My tapered expectations were left unanswered. Ignore all those Academy Awards and (for what it's worth) it's high IMDB rating, Slumdog is a two hour bag of wind slowly blowing itself all the way into it's tired, predictable ending.

Forget the pacing issues, my big beef with this film was the method in which it told its story. Flashbacks are nothing new, and when done correctly they can…

An inspired yet deeply flawed effort from Boyle, and truly a puzzling pick for the best picture award in 2008. It's intentions are good, trying to tell the story of a product of the slums rising above his dire situations, something of a testament to the human spirit and sheer will. It's a story we've seen before which resonates deeply within many, usually utilized with the purpose of sparking emotion and passion within the audience. Slumdog Millionaire does not earn the emotions it manipulates us into feeling. Boyle's kinetic visuals are appealing, Dev Patel is suitable and the score gives life to a scattered narrative. But do I feel as though the film achieved it's purpose? Did it answer the…

This was my first time watching this movie and it was a lot better than I was expecting. Watching the movie and reading the Wikipedia page for it actually allowed me to learn a lot more about Indian culture than I knew before. I can't recall there being all that many Indian films that have been huge successes in America. This film does what I think international films should do, which is tell a great story and also provide some insight into the culture of the characters in the movie. The three main characters in the movie are all interesting, but I felt like they could have developed Latika's character a little bit more. We got to see little glimpses…