I thought Slumdog was OK. I mean it was way, way cheesy, but I decided to take off my cynical hat and just enjoy it as a bit of feel-good fluff. (Wow, how un-Dissensian is that?)
before it's too late.....
very odd film indeed.
Those scenes of sacrifice in the Mayan city. Wow!
I checked out Happy-Go-Lucky to see what the fuss was about and enjoyed it.
I'm not sure what movie Mike Leigh is talking about. The main middle class character is cheerful, yes, but but she's also manipulative and deluded (and simply annoying). I think the first thing she says in the film at bookshop is something like "Reality? Who wants to go there?" The dancing classes imo contrast her spinelessness with the Spanish teacher's nerve (is that the right word?). Similarly the scenes with her alone with her best friend have a lot more sexual tension the sex scene with the guy she picked up at the school.
And the driving lesson scenes are really tense.. I certainly didn't come out of the film feeling more up-lifted with the world.
I thought the lead character would just be an enormous pain in the arse if you knew her.
Oh dear, I was looking forward to seeing Slumdog. It won all those Baftas!
so no one's seen The Class? or they have don't have any comments on it? not to go on, just it's a fantastic movie & one I really think would appeal to many Dissensus folk.
Hey hasn't anyone seen Notorious yet (and no jokers I'm not referring to the Hitch film which is peerless)?
Yes
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Well, how is it? Any other thoughts? Would you at least reservedly recommend it ('scuse my non-conformance to this thread's purpose)?
I'm mostly interested in getting a sense of the local culture within a particular time and place. Generally, I don't think much of biopics except for this element. The whitewashing obviously takes away from this (as well as the credibility of it as a realistic biopic). The tone of you're slight twatishness was lost on me - sorely lacking a wink emoticon.Pardon my twattishness, I wsa just in the mood.
I'd recommend it if you're a biggie fan and don't have enormous expectations ... and if you can stomach the general whitewashing ...
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I'm mostly interested in getting a sense of the local culture within a particular time and place. Generally, I don't think much of biopics except for this element.
Yep the problem with biopics - filling in all the blanks that comprise the played out history of a star. Still I'll see it.You get some of that - street rhyme battles, dealing etc. But they' went with a bit list of important events in Big's life they felt obliged to put in and everything else is just strung around them.