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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.
Out of all the stuff on the firehose this is what was picked for the slashdot main page?
It is based on a novel written by an Indian cultural Marxist with a vested interest in undermining the country. Big difference.
Honestly, I am sure you are not as dumb as the respective starlet but nevertheless ignore completely the context in which the comment was made.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Agreed. What's more annoying, a post on the front page that takes up 1/8th of a screen, or 50 posts complaining about it's existence?
There's some of us here that actually enjoy movies, and those of you who don't think that entertainers have a valid place in society are being either stubborn or naive. Yes, the scientists/authors/statesmen are all important as well, but I've always thought that one of the most important markers of civility is the quality and variety of entertainment options open to people.
We can't work all the time, entertainment is important and necessary. And sometimes, it's even nerdy. If you have to, justify this post to yourself by the fact that two comic book movies were up for awards last night.
Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
Actually, those movies are popular because they show what a real man does in the face of adversity. Those cultures with gun control are so subservient to their governments that they are shocked to see an individual asserting himself against evil. That is also why there is nothing wrong with "western centeredness". The West is the light of the world. It was Western values that abolished the caste system, it was western science that brought industry to the subcontinent.