Comments on: Best Picture: Wall-E or Slumdog Millionaire?

By: Rowan

Rowan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:40:46 +0000

ps. i meant to say – Here is the formula for making a hit popular movie “with Art Cred”

By: Rowan

Rowan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:38:58 +0000

I would also go for Milk above either. I loved Wall-E, found myself in equal parts bored and entertained by Slumdog.

Here is the formula for making a hit popular movie:

Take something people feel really bad about (Poverty or fascism will do)

Nod plenty to how bad it is.

Focus on one character with shining moral values amongst this that the audience will relate to.

Show how that person eventually will be rewarded and receive this honour selflessly.

Tacitly imply that there is justice after all.

Let people leave the cinema feeling good about themselves.

Be sure not to make people think too hard about the actual realities of chosen atrocity.

It worked well for “The Lives of Others” and now also for “Slumdog”…

All I need to do is think of an atrocity of my own to make a movie about and I can be rich too..

By: Ananda Gupta

Ananda Gupta — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Wall.E wins hands down for me over Slumdog Millionaire. I am yet unable to understand the hype around SDM.

I also feel that AR Rahman has made much better music in the past. Though I appreciate the recognition that he has got as an individual.

My Vote is clearly for Wall.E

By: Tim Musgrove

Tim Musgrove — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:36:08 +0000

Looking back over previous Best Picture winners…. if a movie ostensibly celebrating Native American heritage — but that makes a white guy the hero (Dances with Wolves) deserved Best Picture, and if the story of a 16 year-old girl losing her virginity in the back seat of a car (Titanic) deserved Best Picture, then I have no problem with Slumdog getting it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:05 +0000

Frankly, I thought Milk was the best picture of the year. It had the best writing and acting as well as brilliant direction. Also, I think that in the long run it will hold up better than Wall-E or Slumdog.

I don’t think Slumdog will go down as an all time bad choice though. It isn’t in the same league as Crash or Titanic.

By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:58:37 +0000

The credit crisis will be forgotten in 100 years. Global warming, sadly, not so much.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:55:38 +0000

Can I say neither?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:20:31 +0000

WALL-E deserved Best Picture. If the award truly went to Slumdog just because a movie about poverty occurred during an economic downturn then that’s EVEN WORSE because it wasn’t a true win for quality. Slumdog was a great movie, WALL-E was a timeless classic that will be remembered long after everyone’s forgotten who Dev Patel is. We should not reward issues or economy, we should reward filmmaking, which WALL-E was, pure cinema.

By: Byron Smart

Byron Smart — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:45:27 +0000

Oh come on OM. You know slumdog was a better picture. Dvorak.org/blog

By: Madan

Madan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:05:29 +0000

My vote – wall E.
Originality – 8/10
Execution 10/10
entertaining – 8/10

I started watching wall-e a while back, but then got bored after 10 mins, however, i was promised that the movie picks up after that, and true enough, i sat and watched it again, and was BLOWN!
The way the character is built, for both the robots is very interesting.

SDM -
Music- 7/10 – enjoyed the music. thats all.

then again – these are my opinions and views!