Today I'm reviewing:
Slumdog Millionaire
I have to admit, I was a little hesitant to see "Slumdog Millionaire" at first.
I know it won Best Picture, but two things started to turn me off to it before I even rented it:
1) I saw a preview that showed the cast dancing that stupid fucking Bollywood shit dance stuff
2) I've been in the computer/technology industry for, like, 15 years now and - really - I thought I pretty much new every Indian person on the face of the planet since I'd worked with most of them.
Wrong on both counts.
That's right.
I was wrong.
Mark your calendar, folks, it doesn't happen often.
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
(FYI- that stupid dance shit happens in the credits, thank Christ.)
Once I got past the dialect thing.
You see, I suck with accents.
If you have even the slightest accent, I'm totally fucked in any conversation with you.
Movies with Scottish/Irish actors?
Fuck it. Forget it. I give up after the first five minutes.
I have no fucking clue (or, as you Scottish say, "Feeeckin gloo") what the Hell you're talking about.
How Braveheart managed to be one of my favorites is still a mystery.
FREEDOM!!!!
Sorry.
Regardless, it took me about 10 minutes to acclimate to the accents.
But once I did...
WOW.
RENT. THIS. FRIGGIN. MOVIE.
It's an excellent story set in mostly 'flashback' mode about a poor Indian boy (termed a 'slumdog' - and you'll see why in horrible detail) who gets on the Indian version of the show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire.'
Listen.
My last rental was fucking Marley and Me and I still find myself crying myself to fucking sleep some nights.
Stupid dog movie - why must you emasculate me so?!?!
So it was good to see a well acted, well written and excellent movie overall.
See it.
My Score:
4 Mooge Splats (out of a possible 4)
Now excuse, me...
...Vijay Sangesh Patel needs some help in the lab.
I think.
I'm not sure...I can't understand what the fuck he's saying.
Moog out.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Vijay Patel says Wha?
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"Marley and Me" - Honey...Have You Seen My Testicles?
Today I'm reviewing:
Marley and Me
Fucking Ay.
Marley and Me.
I'm going to go off on a tangent here and instead of giving you the plot and characters and shit, I'm just going to give you a quiz.
Here goes:
Q: How do you know if you should rent Marley and Me?
1) Are you male?
If you answered 'yes' to this, then RUN.
RUN AWAY, MY FRIEND.
Run away from this movie and never ever look back.
Because there is no fucking way in Hell that you're not going to turn into a fucking testosterone-free, ball-less, pussified blubbering jackass woman-like piece of jell-o by the time this movie is over.
If you get through this movie and you're not bawling like 5 year old fat kid who just dropped his Sno-Cone on the hot pavement in mid-July after spending his last 50 cents on it...
...then let me be first to congratulate you on your choice of career in the slaughterhouse industry.
My wife wanted to see this in the theater.
Thank Christ 'The Dark Knight' intervened or otherwise I would have been exiting the fucking lobby looking like I'd just been pepper sprayed for three hours straight.
There's no fucking way, dude, you can watch this and somehow try to maintain the 'head of household' or 'man' portion of the relationship.
Luckily for me, I gave that up years ago.
To the Ladies:
Unless you want to see your man reduced to a slobbering corpse of what he once was, do NOT make him watch this.
Especially if he has a fucking dog. Holy shit...I don't even like my fucking dog and I was damn near close to knitting her a fucking sweater at the end of this movie.
Our time...so...fleeting.
OH SHE SHIT ON THE FUCKING CARPET AGAIN?!?!? MOTHER OF CHRIST!!
Fucking dog.
Overall - the story was, eh.
By the way....it is NOT a movie for kids.
My Score:
2 Mooge Splats (out of a possible four)
Excuse me now.
I only have one booty left to knit and my dog's outfit will be complete.
Don't know what you've got til it's gone, ya know.
Stupid dog.
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