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| bocce |
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my only failing grades in parochial school were penmanship and deportment (conduct). on the other hand, i played basketball, so the nuns and priests let it ride...
things haven't really changed that much: i dropped cursive in high school, was an ongoing problem child and still got a pass for sports...just like today's "student athletes"... |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:03 pm |
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Did everyone here go to Catholic school?  |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:35 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Slumdog Millionaire is almost certainly the best movie of 2008. I wish I knew what Earl meant about the ending requiring a spoiler alert. It's almost sadistic for him to drop this hint without following up with an alert.
Earl, how's about that follow-up?
As for supporting performances, how about the brother? Great job.
And does anyone else find it absurd that Patel is being promoted as supporting actor himself? This goes beyond Timothy Hutton and Haing S. Ngor into outright idiocy.
Billy,
Sorry for the delay. Just got home from work and saw your post for the first time. I'll post what I thought was a flaw in the ending in "invisible ink" shortly. Just have to get some dinner first But before that, I do agree about Patel belonging in the lead category. As I said in my review, he carried the movie. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:36 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Did everyone here go to Catholic school?
Yes. All of us did. And you killed Our Lord. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:46 pm |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:48 pm |
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Earl wrote: marantzo wrote: Did everyone here go to Catholic school?
Yes. All of us did. And you killed Our Lord.
Actually, I didn't, although my mother dropped hints Many A Time, so it was the next best thing.
Rod - I'm home, so I'll check that -right now-. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:51 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: Earl wrote: marantzo wrote: Did everyone here go to Catholic school?
Yes. All of us did. And you killed Our Lord.
Actually, I didn't, although my mother dropped hints Many A Time, so it was the next best thing.
Rod - I'm home, so I'll check that -right now-.
I didn't either, but it might as well have been. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:12 pm |
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| Well, the best film you've seen all year is the best I saw all year as well. What's 42 years, anyway. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:20 pm |
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| I see by your tagline that we have similar tastes in Christmas movies, whiskey. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:22 pm |
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Yes. All of us did. And you killed Our Lord.
You weren't paying attention in class. His father forsook him. Typical paternal disgust with a rebellious son. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:57 pm |
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Re Slumdog Millionaire:
First, what I'm calling a flaw might be more accurately descibed as a "logical inconsistency." Second, and most importantly before I move into spoiler territory, it did not detract from my enjoyment of the movie. I recommend it highly.
SPOILER in white--highlight to read:
The flaw isn't what might be considered some of the obvious stuff. Like, for example, the fact that several of the questions on the game show just happen to relate to pivotal moments in Jamal's life or, stretching the plausibilty factor even more, that those questions are presented to Jamal in the same order in which the corresponding events happened to Jamal. All of that can easily be explained by the idea of "Destiny" with an upper-case "D." Simply put, he was destined to get on that show in a way that his true love would notice him, and then he and she would (literally) dance off into the sunset together with a bounty of riches to their name. As the final graphic informs us in answer to the very first question posed, "It was written."
No, it's none of that. The flaw is the notion that the final question posed to Jamal, which is worth 20,000,000 rupees, would happen on live television. At that point Jamal decided to use his last lifeline, the "Phone a Friend" option. The game show dialed the number and it rang several times. So many times, in fact, that the show was on the verge of hanging up on the call before it was finally answered by Jamal's "friend."
Let's hit the pause button here and consider for a moment. This is a game show so concerned about being fleeced that it has little compunction about sending a contestant off to be tortured (and I mean really tortured - severe beating, being held under water, electric shock - the whole nine Guantanamo yards) just on the mere suspicion that the contestant might have cheated. Then on the biggest "Big Money" question of them all, the show allows Jamal to use his "Phone a Friend" lifeline on live TV. Then the phone rings. And rings and rings and rings and rings. Did it not occur to the people who run this show that this time while the phone was ringing was an eternity during which Jamal's friend could have looked up the answer on the internet before the phone was ever answered? This moment would never have happened on live television.
END SPOILER
Still love the movie. Movies like Slumdog Millionaire are the reason I love going to the movies. As a dose of pure narcotic escapism, it'll hold me good and strong until Last Chance Harvey comes out and I can imagine I'm squiring Emma Thompson around a picture-postcard version of London. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:08 pm |
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| Sounds more like dramatic license to me, earl. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:26 pm |
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I don't see that as being *that* implausible, either - sorry. If he's from the slum, is he going to have that many friends with access to computers? I'm not counting the people he worked with, who were a different social class and not really friends. That would be enough to explain it.
I've heard people wonder if not really a spoiler the high-value questions weren't a little too easy, but even that isn't so implausible.
I will say, though, that I got my third and fourth Musketeers mixed up, so I actually thought he'd lost.
This post has been... redacted!
(Actually, there's functionality in the most recent version of the forum software that allows for spoilers and easy access to 'em. I'd just hate to be the one to upgrade here.) |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:42 pm |
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Rod wrote: I see by your tagline that we have similar tastes in Christmas movies, whiskey.
My other favorite being Roger & Me. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:51 pm |
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| I've been skipping a lot of the posts here because I haven't seen either "Doubt" or "Slumdog Millionaire" yet. But the penmanship mentions caught my attention, because my mother has often mentioned the struggle that my uncle Charles, who was brain damaged (because of a doctor's slip with the forceps when he was born), went through when he was forced to learn to write with his right hand despite being left-handed. It's amazing he learned to write at all. (This was, of course, in the 1920s. And definitely not a Catholic school--my folks were Southern Baptists.) |
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