John’s Movie Musings

8 Oscar wins, including Best Picture of the Year.  4 Golden Globes, also including Best Picture.  87 total awards world-wide with another 27 nominations.  Obviously someone thinks Slumdog Millionaire is pretty ok.

If you haven’t seen it, well, I’m not gonna tell you a damn thing about it.  With hype and expectations the way they are, it’s best you go into this knowing as little as possible.  After the Oscars, there were some news stories about how the actors’ lives have changed.  Avoid those, too, but make it point to read them later.  They help cement the sad reality of a world outside of your comfort zone.

What makes a movie so great?  Characters? Plot? Action? Romance?  All of the above?  For me, great movies must elicit an emotional connection.  That, of course, makes everything subjective which is why we all argue about the best movies of all time.

Slumdog Millionaire is not one of my best movies of all time.  But it is a great movie.  It’s very possible that it is (or soon will be) one of your top five.  But one thing that’s not subjective:  you must see this movie. There are so few good ones every year, it’s criminal to waste your time on National Treasure sequels, or their ilk.

Grade: A+