It reminded me a lot of City of God, and as I mentioned before I think that movie is also overrated (not to say it didn't have plenty of good qualities to it, it just doesn't deserve to be in the IMDB Top 50 where it currently is).
Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon were better movies, IMO. Its fair to say that Slumdog was better than Doubt, The Wrestler, The Reader, and Milk, although that is certainly debatable for anyone of those movies (except maybe The Reader, a bit overrated as well except for Kate Winslet's part).
This year was frankly a tough year to pick winners on, although Slumdog did pull through as many expected it would. But there were several big surprises, like Milk winning several awards and Frost/Nixon not getting any.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
