What was the last movie you saw at the theaters?

Bolt...and I'm seeing the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still this weekend

I saw Bolt too. Also seeing the day the earth stood still this weekend too! What are the odds? LOL

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Madigascar 2, only because my girlfriend made me go....but I actually liked it.

Twilight!

I rate it an 9

I saw You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Well only fragments of it, because i had nothing else to do. It was bad, realy, realy bad.

The New Rambo. Totally awesome in the theater!!! Not really on Dvd!!!

I wish we had that kind of stuff around here!

Slumdog Millionaire
2008, Danny Boyle

A. He Cheated
B. He is Lucky
C. He is a Genius
D. It is Written

Winning, well-made crowdpleaser with a clever framing device and a character you root for from beginning to end. The U.K. hit gameshow "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" was exported all around the world, from America to Argentina, from Hong Kong to Hungary, from Finland to the Philippines - over a hundred different countries. If it's not universal it is certainly planetary. Therefore we all probably know the format: contestant answers random multiple-choice trivia questions, doubling their money for each correct answer, until either the top prize amount is won, the contestant gets one wrong, or they walk away with the cash they've accumulated rather than continue. Slumdog Millionaire is a sort of romantic fantasy about one young man's chance on the Indian version of the show.

The contestant is a young man named Jamal. Through a sort of double flashback technique we see an intense Police interrogation where they believe he has committed fraud to get correct answers on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", the evening of the show itself, and back to various points in his life where we see how he gained the knowledge for each of the questions fate has given him for cash money. Even though he has little formal education we see how this orphaned boy who spent most of his life on the dirty streets of Bombay in the 1970s and '80s living by his wits and minor crimes and then the Mumbai of the 21st century, how living through just the right experiences he could know the handful of answers he needs to keep advancing. We also learn of his relationship with his older brother, Salim, and the love of his life, another child of the streets named Latika.

I found the first half of the movie the strongest, with the interrogation, led by Irfan Khan, and the earliest years the boys spent in the slums and fending for themselves. In the second half when the larger plot machinations take over and it drives to its pleasant if pretty predictable and probably too-neat conclusion, I longed to be back with the smaller children and the station house. But the finale is satisfying if unsurprising, and there's a great CODA for the end credits that's sure to leave you with a smile on your face.

The actors are all good, especially Dev Patel who plays the present-day Jamal and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar who plays the character at his youngest points. I also liked Anil Kapoor, who plays the TV host, but there aren't really any bad performances in the whole flick. Director Danny Boyle, who seems to be determined to change his subject matter from project to project (the zombieish thriller 28 Days Later... to the gentle if sitcomy UK child fantasy Millions to the brooding philosophical Sci-Fi of Sunshine and now to Slumdog) mixes his visual style well with the various time periods and locations and adeptly juggles the tone between comedy and drama.

I wish the second half would have been as good as the first, but it's still a fun, feel-good cinematic ride.


GRADE: B+

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Dammit, Holden, I planned to see this last weekend to try to beat you, and then again, we were going to go see it today, but things came up. We're planning to see it tomorrow, but now, I might try to pick something more obscure, but then again, probably not.

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Can't wait to see Slumdog Millionaire but unfortunately its not out in the UK until January. Infact theres a great deal of stuff not out until January over here; Milk, The Wrestler, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, Frost/Nixon, Gran Torino etc. I'll make sure i'll see them though, however dramatic a toll it takes on my bank balance.

What Doesn't Kill You

I watched a dvd screener of Saw V on the internet. One word describes it all - crap!!! I am a fan of the Saw movies but this ruined it all. I cant believe they are making more.

The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008).

Eh...

But Gort was cool.

Twilight.
...had its moments...

I can't remember, it's been that long. I used to go every week, but after a while I just got discouraged.

I saw both the movie Milk this past Thanksgiving night, and The Gremlins this past Sunday night, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, which is just outside Boston. Both were wonderful films, each in their own right.

the day the earth stood still

The Strangers.

it was super scary.

but, mainly because of the fact that they said it was real.

then I googled it and was shocked to see that it wasn't.

I should have learned from the lies of the blair witch, eh?

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Last Sunday night, I went and saw The Gremlins at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. It was a fun, cool film.