{"id":1155,"date":"2009-03-26T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T09:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2015-07-07T13:56:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:56:43","slug":"big_screen_slum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/big_screen_slum.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Slumdog Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liked. But did not love.<\/p>\n<p><u>Good:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\"><LI>Oh the romance.<br \/>\n<LI>Oh the feel-good-ness of it all.  The Bollywood dance at the end (the intercutting of them alone, them with crowd, and them as young) was so smile-inducing.  Everyone in the theater seemed so happy on the way out.<\/UL><br \/>\n<u>Bad:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\"><LI>The framing technique got old. FAST. They should have ended it about 15 minutes earlier because the movie got SO much better once the stories all came together.<br \/>\n<LI>So, so, so, SO predictable.  You could spot that ending a mile away.<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>And frankly that last one is what killed it for me.  Movies this predictable should not be given awards, if you ask me.  Or if they are, with a &#8220;*100% predictable&#8221; tacked on the end.<\/p>\n<p>Worth seeing, sure.  But the Oscar?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/wrapping_it_up_3.html\">Eh<\/a>.  Milk should have won.  That was predictable only in that IT WAS FROM A TRUE STORY.<\/p>\n<p>(For pete&#8217;s sake (who&#8217;s pete), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/big_screen_iron.html\">Iron Man <\/a> was less predictable than this!!!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liked. But did not love. Good: Oh the romance. Oh the feel-good-ness of it all. The Bollywood dance at the end (the intercutting of them alone, them with crowd, and them as young) was so smile-inducing. Everyone in the theater &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/big_screen_slum.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}