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Post by "Rock On!" with Shane Carlson on Feb 18, 2009 10:09:47 GMT
Well folks...I tried to like this film...I really did...however, not even all the hype surrounding it was enough to keep this film from the unshakable truth...it was pretty average.
For the first 50 minutes the film started well and the idea and story construction was good...however...this "boy meets girl...boy loses girl...boy tries to find girl...boy finally finds girl" movie simply ran out of steam thereafter. An hour and twenty minutes in...I was left thinking: "Oh come on...get on with it!!"
The story was extremely weak and very predictable...even the attempted plot distraction of the letter "B" in the mirror failed miserably and the outcome was inevitable.
And then, true to form of all Bollywood movies of this type...the boy got the girl and they lived (I assume) happily every after...
So, despite the hype, I could only muster a 4 out of 10.
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Post by sistermoon on Feb 21, 2009 13:49:53 GMT
I meant to see this on Monday but was laid low by a migraine.
Thanks, Shane, for showing up the feeling that this was playing to the Oscar committee by showing the poverty of India - i. e. nothing that they couldn't have seen on Paul Merton's documentary.
I'd also seen the pre-BAFTA blurb for it. I feel they could have just shown the guy competing on Millionaire and then done a subsequent movie about him going on Eggheads and going head to head with Judith Keppel or C. J. 'I didn't get where I am today without a stupid hairstyle' De Mooi!
Oh, and isn't it convenient that MIA had a song on the soundtrack that was just the intro of the Clash's 'Straight To Hell' with her chuntering over the top? At least Lily Allen sang the whole damn song on War Child's 'Heroes' compilation.
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