Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Wall-E was better than Slumdog Millionaire, so while I agree I wouldn't pick it for best picture I'd say it was more deserving than the one that won.

No, it wasn't a great year. None of the actual nominees really soared and the Oscar bait movie I liked better was roundly canned by critics and did nothing at the box office.

But of the five nominees I rated Slumdog fourth or fifth (I'd have to go back and find where I said it to be sure of my mood at the time).

For me, Slumdog was simply poverty porn where we get to pat ourselves on the back for feeling bad about how such people live because poverty doesn't deprive you of the life-fulfilling happiness of true love, and hey maybe one of them will get lucky and win the lottery. In my opinion it infantilized those it was portraying.