Are you not caring about spoilers? I mean, if you're only halfway through it...

Why is that movie rated R? And why do you have your laptop in the movie theater? :)

I liked it a lot. I have never been to India, but they seem to have captured a very wide view of the country, and the westernization thereof.

I could have done without Luke Skywalker's hologram feeding him . . oops. . .SPOILER. . .

*shuts mouth*

Oooops, I've forgotten about the spoilers; got a little carried away there. So this post is only meant for those people who've seen the film and want to talk about it--but wait, what happens to all those people who haven't seen the film yet, and will ruin their watching experience after reading this--so, in that case: don't read this post--period.

A Laptop in the theater: you've gotto be kidding me--I watch all of my movies on the net, since my sister's have been kind enough to stock me with them.:)

danf, you and your bigmouth--I was saving the Luke Skywalker thing for an amazing ending.

I've added a spoiler tag, so go ahead and spoil!

Sorry hadjiboy, I just didn't want anyone to spoil the story for YOU!

Hadjiboy - the movie was breathtaking and intense until the kids grew up, then it sucked.

It was like watching two entirely separate movies with the same characters pasted into both.

I really hated it, but then I don't know India

I was so excited to see this movie, and found it so disappointing. I appreciated three things about it greatly: the vivid depictions of poor communities in India; the acting of the kids actors; and the intense pacing which was gripping indeed and hardly ever let you breathe.

But I really hated the incredibly trite, 50s-Hollywood turn it took with the love story. It was unrealistic and cloying, which in a movie that was at least aiming to be realisting and original, I didn't expect. There was no reason to believe in love between the two characters, and it was so disappointing to see the story taken into "boy loses girl, boy gets girl" when it started out to be something much better.

Aw, come-on guys--give it a break--I loved it when the two super-hero's of the film got together. Was it that unrealistic and cloying--naaah, I would've worried about the girl if it didn't happen--so thanks Danny--good job!

Besides, you have that guy who set's her free and then end's up dying in the bath-tub--that was pretty intense... and yeah, doesn't he steal her from him and then kicks him out. How much more morose can it have gotten--I don't think I would've been able to handle that.

Bottom line--Three stars to Slumdog Millionaire. Keep it up:)

Oh, and thanks taz, for adding the Spoilers Tag. Thanks to you too Specklet for thinking about me:)

Dude, unrealistic and cloying doesn't even BEGIN to describe how hackneyed that movie got as it went along.

HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD!:

1. Very believable that the police would beat the living crap out of OUR HERO overnight (including electrocution and stress positions) over CHEATING ON A QUIZ SHOW! And all that just because the quiz show host couldn't handle someone getting as famous as he was????

This movie alternated between near-documentary levels of human cruelty and the most bathetic of soap opera imaginable. The whole movie just became a silly-ass mess by the time it ended.

It's like they hired Danny Boyle for the intense first reel, then farmed the rest of the film out to the same dude who did the Charlie's Angels sequel.