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Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars
Ben Burtt was robbed of his overly deserved Oscars for the sound on Wall-E, and Heath Ledger's Joker unsurprisingly got a posthumous statue, but the big winner for the night was Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire with Picture, Director, Song, and five others. Go ahead movie nerds: talk amongst yourself.
I agree. At the very least, this should have gone to the Idle section; isn't it for crap which the usual readership of this site doesn't give a fuck? Or should I use the proper FF extension to turn this place back into OMG!!!PONIES^H^H^H^H^H^HCELEBRITIES!!!?
But it's nice to see that Hollywood is continuing the Global business trend of outsourcing movie production. Hello my name is Ram... I mean Stephen... and I will be your 1st AD for today. How may I help you?
Only one American won a major award -- the overrated Sean Penn -- and he's anti-American. (Mickey Rourke was robbed.) To paraphrase Stephen Colbert; why do you hate America, Hollywood? Why? Giving Oscars to Brits will only mean terrorists win.
Now Mumbai is not just taking contact center jobs, but also movie ones too. Which would be fine if Slumdog was the best movie of the year -- which it most certainly wasn't. Just the most hyped by UK reality TV producer's money (Paul Smith from Who Wants to be a Millionaire). It's just an exploit-asian movie. UK producers and crew mostly, skimming profit off of Indian industry.
FAIL
"...Stuff that Matters."
EPIC. FAIL.
... about how movies are made.
And your ignorance is impudically exposed like if it was a badge of honour.
For example, Slumdog Millionaire has revolutionaized how movies can be made by taking advantage of digital film making technciques.
I could bore you with the specifics, but I don't want to dent the pride of your lack of curiosity.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
The asinine amount of replies to this topic is completely mind boggling.
From all the fine arts, cinema is the most accessible and for the same reason the art that most matters, since all of us are exposed to it in a way that sculpture, classical music, literature, dance or architecture can only dream about.
This form of art awards prizes in different festivals and ceremonies, and undoubtedly the Oscar is the most important prize in the English speaking world, which in case you didn't know, dominates the movie industry worldwide.
So it is stuff that matters, movies are very often the only exposure that multitude of people will have to multitude of topics, for which they would otherwise not care at all.
Check this year's movies: now people know more about poverty in India, or gay activism, younger people can revisit the disastrous years of the Nixon presidency or can explore the surface of how the Nazi machine worked.
These topics are important, and it is vital that people, who don't read as much and are watching less TV nowadays, get exposure to diverse topics by means of intelligent entertainment.
The cultural apathy shown today on this thread is frankly dispiriting, it has only confirmed the stereotype of the nerd that hasn't got a life beyond the bloody computer in front of them, in spite of movies today being one of the most fertile grounds to use all kind of great gadgets and technology.
Are the Oscars an exercise of industrial wankery? Well, yes, maybe, why not. But at the very least the prize will point people out in the direction of worthwhile cinema they would have not watched otherwise (hands up who has watched "Frozen River". "Revanche", or even "Doubt", I am sure lots of people will now watch movies with a certain modicum of quality that they would have not watched otherwise).
IANAL but write like a drunk one.