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[Pett]

Slumdog Millionaire is very                                              

Anyone else have a hard time figuring out what Slumdog Millionaire was like?

[Catmatt]

ew and I have already been through this Fountain thing.  I'm pretty adept at reading film--heck, I taught a class on it--and I think the movie reads like those crappy short stories freshmen crap out in creative writing classes because they're "so deep nobody gets me."

As for Slumdog Millionaire, I have a thing about India, and not a good one.  After months of getting calls from there or calling there for help, and after dealing with one of my in-laws who is from Mombai and thinks he's superior to anyone with skin lighter than coffee with 5 creams, I've kind of had it with the whole India/Bollywood hard-on everyone has.  And I haven't even started on M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

I'll pass on the slumdog, thanks.

[Bookcat]

Just got around to seeing Gran Torino.

I'm behind the times I know but I have a file list of about 20 torrents that I haven't had time for.


Eastwood did a great job playing the old tough guy role....He sounded alot like my late uncle before he passed. A Korean vet as well. Wouldn't even eat at an Asian restaurant because it reminded him of the rice gruel crap he had to eat when he was at war in the '50's. He acted like the war was still going on...and arguably it is...albeit a cold one with NPRK.

A sacrfice so that a younger generation shall have peace. Loved the plot line and the ending was more poetic than shoot'em up. I think Eastwood has been in plenty of those....but not enough of the type of endings that Torino had.