What film did everyone else see?

Rating: 6/10 (8 March 2009)

This is the most overrated film of the decade! Worse than that all the Oscars it won, the only one I can understand was best original song. I like Danny Boyle & am sure he has a great career ahead of him. He's already done some really enjoyable films including "Millions" which is twice as good as this. I don't know how this won so many awards or what film they saw because this can't be it. It's full of clichés, the story is completely transparent with absolutely no surprises, & the script is middle of the road...at best! It will also help that you really like the show "Who wants to be a Millionaire" because it's a large part of the story. If you don't like I don't, well it's even harder to get in on the story. On a plus note the acting was good especially the male lead Dev Patel & both of the little boys playing the young versions of Salim & Jamal are great. I can't figure out why this is any better than the other films nominated for Oscars, but this did not deserve Best Picture at all. I'm betting in 5-10 years this will be one of those films that people will wonder how this won all these awards. I'll wait for you all to catch up, but in all honesty stop doing/rating what everybody else is doing because it's the "IN THING" & ignore the fact it won all the awards it won & rate the film on it's own. No bias no awards just how the film rates as it's own separate entity. It really is mediocre, not bad, but it's not good either but it definitely is not worthy of #42 of all time as it is ranked right now on IMDb. That puts it above "Chinatown, The Departed & Forrest Gump?" (Just to name a few) What planet are you all from? I can understand "Chinatown" because it's not for casual viewers, but above "Forrest Gump?" There is absolutely no way & I would hope that people realize that they're giving this a higher rating than the much better "Gump."