Slum Dog Millionaire- May Earn A Place in the Trash Dump **1/2

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2009)

What's all the excitement generated by this 2008 film? In the old days of the 1950s, this picture would be nothing more than a grade B film and everyone knows that.
Will this film join AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, AN American IN Paris and UNFORGIVEN as well as Shakespeare IN LOVE and go on to win a much undeserved best picture Oscar? If academy voters voted such stinkers as the above films in, SLUMDOG will probably follow as a winner.
The first 20 minutes of the film was absolutely disgusting and nauseating to watch. We know that we're not dealing with Park Avenue, New York City here but the scenes were a little too much to take.
We do have somewhat of a good plot here- how a young man relates the questions asked of him to his earlier brutal life.
We've also seen films how 2 brothers with a miserable background can go either way in life. We're also reminded of the corruption facing the quiz shows of the 1950s.