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I felt horrible after watching this one and wish I hadn't. I was intrigued by the music which I heard on SST and even though I knew what to expect based on the synopsis, it still creeped me out. The acting was bad indeed. But something about the gore scenes gets to you. The animal slaughter/torture was the worst part because that was real.
There's a funny interview with Ortolani about this score. The interviewer doesn't know Italian and is asking him questions he perhaps translated online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUnfm0H50w

"The Road to PeRdition"

Based on a graphic comic novel, the film is quite enjoyable. It's sort of the interest level of "The Shawshank Redemption", with the pacing, often, of "The Green Mile". And, to top it all off, like both movies I just referenced, this one is also scored by Thomas Newman. I'll need to hear the score again, but so far I think I'd call this one of, if not the best score I've ever heard by him.

Very true, aslo your remarks about the Elfman-y score. It works good in the film, but i prefer John Murphy's own style by far. Such a pleasant movie. I hope he doesn't venture into crappy Bollywood regions again, now that he's made a shitload of money out of the later.

Agreed. ROAD TO PERDITION was one of Newman's peaks.

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I fail to honestly understand how anyone who has seen Slumdog could have genuine disaffection for its score. The album, maybe - that's all down to taste. I've yet to hear from any of the music's detractors what music they think would have made the film better than Rahman's did. And the film is wonderful.

I only saw the film once, but doesn't it cycle back around for a more moving scene where the young boy comes to terms with the death of his mother? (For some reason I remember it happening.) Boyle probably only wanted the film to appreciate what had happened when the excitement was over.

The scene was all doo-tee-doo-tee-doo-tee chase music like it was the most exciting and joyous thing that was happen to these characters! Wrong, wrong, wrong! Even the scene with Latika at the train station... when Latika gets kidnapped.. Doop-Doopy-Doo-Do-Doo-Doopy-Doo. No sense of danger or threat. It all sounded like tracked source music.

Anyway, the songs were good... I will give Rahman that... but the score was so underwhelming and unmemorable!

-Erik-

The Simpsons Movie

Mildly amusing, decent attempt at doing a movie. It held my attention at least, but it's not a big step up from the tv series or anything.

I was left very disappointed. The film would have made a good episode, it was too drawn out.

Every review i've read so far suggests that i should save my 9 euros.

Find me a script from Bollywood that is as cleverly put-together as the SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE script, either in terms of navigating all the information it does, or in the mirroring of core theme with surface action. It's a lot more like a clever Shyamalan script than a Bollywood script. Bollywood is Christmas decorations on this Dickens-with-Pulp-Fiction-structure.

Agreed!

I do not understand how Demetris spews so much venom and hate on it with such alarming regularity. It's ok to not like a movie and its score. It's ok to be disappointed that it reaped all the awards. Too bad Desplat did not win. For me, it was crazy to see Santaollalla win back-to-back earlier but I don't care about it now. You just move on. You don't have to change your opinion of the movie/score. But it's a bit much to extrapolate those feelings to bash anything related to the director/composer/genre ad nauseum. I choose to treat D's continued Slumdog-related bashing into thinking that he's just trolling. I can't rationalize this level of hatred otherwise.




That's a valid point.

I remember seeing some of the Danny Boyle interviews before the film released where he mentioned how he deliberately wanted the music to be like how music in mixed in Bolly films (overt and in-your-face). And he wanted the music to reflect the kind of adventure that Jamal's character had been through (a lot of it are flashbacks).

I find the score an odd fit but it works for me. There are just a couple of tracks that I find interesting (Latika's theme, Mausam & Escape).

I found Slumdog Millionaire ok, but not brilliant. I remember being annoyed by the songs from time to time, and found some of them too weird for my taste. I like the popular song Jai Ho a bit, but again nothing brilliant and it quickly becomes too much. As to the score I only noticed the lovely theme for Latika in the movie.

Rated it 6 on imdb.

Peter

It's one of those films that stick in your memory for years. The gripping and wholly emotional atmosphere as well as the tight pace in contrast to the slow surroundings, made it look and feel brilliant.