Slumdog Millionaire
I was walking down College Street in Blacksburg recently and noticed that Slumdog Millionaire was playing at the Lyric Theater. I had never been to the Lyric and I have been wanting to see Slumdog for a while so I knocked out both birds with a single stone.
Last night, Stacie and I went to see the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. Stacie didn’t have any idea what the movie was about and was afraid that I was taking her to see a political movie based on the name and the fact that she had never heard of it before. I also am guilty of taking her to political movies in the past.
As I said, I had not been to the Lyric before and was very surprised when we walked around the corner to see how long the line was. I was afraid we were going to have to go the the big theater, but we made it in just before they quit selling tickets to the early show. While in that long line Stacie saw the poster (my thumbnail) and thought that was a wierd poster for a left wing political movie.
The movie was great. It’s been a long time since I remember a movie that made me laugh and cry at the same time. I throughly enjoyed the character development and by the end of the movie you really liked all the main characters, even the one that you weren’t supposed to like.
I highly recommend the movie to anybody who likes movies and even those who only see a movie once in a blue moon (like my father…who hasn’t been to a theater in at least 15 years).