ROTTEN TOMATOES: RT on DVD: Exclusive Slumdog Millionaire Clip, Seven Pounds, and The Matrix 10th Anniversary Blu-ray

RT on DVD: Exclusive Slumdog Millionaire Clip, Seven Pounds, and The Matrix 10th Anniversary Blu-ray

Plus Marley & Me, Tell No One, and 8 new films to die for.

by Jen Yamato | March 30, 2009

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Jai Ho it up with the DVD debut of Danny Boyle's multiple Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire! It's also your week to catch films you might have missed in theaters, from Jennifer Aniston's tale of puppy love (Marley & Me) to the latest heart-wrencher from Will Smith (Seven Pounds). Those who dare to go foreign will be justly rewarded with two well-reviewed imports (the French thriller Tell No One and the Spanish sci-fi Timecrimes), while art-house devotees have two remastered Wong Kar-Wai films to choose from (Happy Together and Fallen Angels). Horror fans have an octet of new flicks to check out (After Dark Horror Fest 8 Films to Die For)...and did we mention the sweet new Blu-ray that should be on the top of any philosophical cyberpunk's wishlist (The Matrix 10th Anniversary Blu-ray Digibook)?

Slumdog Millionaire -- 94%

Jai Ho it up this week with the multiple Oscar-winning feel-good hit, Slumdog Millionaire! Danny Boyle's Dickensian Best Picture-winner, about an Indian working-class hero who competes on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, won over audiences and critics last year thanks to energetic filmmaking, a sweetly romantic story, and its exotic, catchy soundtrack. (That end-sequence Bollywood number, set to composer A.R. Rahman's Oscar-winning song, "Jai Ho," didn't hurt either; even Ellen DeGeneres couldn't resist recreating the dance on her daytime talk show.) If you missed the Little Film That Could in theaters (it narrowly avoided the ignominy of a direct-to-video release), you can bring it home today and relive all the feel-goodness of our most recent Oscar season.

Slumdog Millionaire comes to DVD in single-disc and Blu-ray releases. I know, single-disc; these days getting just one disc in a new release seems a bit skimpy, but Fox Home Entertainment has actually packed a decent host of extras here, including a commentary track by Best Director Boyle and star Dev Patel and a second commentary with writer Simon Beaufoy and producer Christian Colson (both of whom won Oscars for their work). The DVD also includes a dozen deleted scenes. On Blu-ray you'll get the above, plus additional behind-the-scenes featurettes, a music video, and a short film by newbie Rahi Anil Bharve (Manjha) which was hand-picked by Boyle.

Want more of the Bollywood-meets-Hollywood genre? Check out Desperate Housewives hottie Jesse Metcalfe in the cross-global romance The Other End of the Line (27%), in which he romances Bollywood star Shriya Saran.

Below, watch an exclusive deleted scene from Slumdog Millionaire.

Next: Aniston, Wilson, and Marley & Me

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Mar 30 2009 08:09 PM

I want to rent Timecrimes, I love movies that deal with time paradoxes and ideas. I'll stay way from Marly and Me, and also Seven Pounds which I heard sucked. I'll get Slumdog Millionaire for sure. Not much else for me in a while though.

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collex writes:
on Mar 30 2009 08:23 PM

Will get Slumdog Millionaire used soon (yep, I'm that broke right now). Nothing else this week. I'm really considering subscribing to Zip.ca (the Canadian equiavalent of Netflix) because the videoclub is kind far from home, but I don't know yet...

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Mar 30 2009 10:02 PM

I'll get "The Matrix", haven't seen "Slumdog", I will now, and this week also has two of the weakest Best Picture winners. No offense to "An American in Paris" or "Gigi" (Not "Gigli"), but they're only okay.

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Kurt S. writes:
on Mar 30 2009 10:23 PM

I will get Slumdog Millionaire for sure as soon as it comes out. Also I am interested in Seven Pounds just because Ebert seemed to really like that movie, so I will rent it and see what it is all about.

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Mar 30 2009 10:28 PM

In reply to this comment (#2404636)
My mom liked "Seven Pounds". I haven't seen it, but I find her taste usally good. (She did reccomend "Jack Frost" to me though...hmmm.)

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WinterSkies06 writes:
on Mar 30 2009 11:03 PM

Wow, someone messed up.

The Slumdog DVD is missing ALL of the special features listed on the packaging.

Plus, they failed to use a different form of subtitling from that of the theatrical version... so if you're watching the movie on anything smaller than a 30ish inch screen, good luck reading the text.

I don't know how someone messed up this bad.

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red_wine writes:
on Mar 31 2009 05:53 AM

You think An American In Paris and Gigi are weak Best Picture winners, wait till you see Slumdog. Slumdog is the film that trumped far better films to a nomination and even somehow managed to win.

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jacog writes:
on Mar 31 2009 07:43 AM

Slumdog deserved its win.

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Jen Yamato writes:
on Mar 31 2009 09:43 AM

WinterSkies06, which edition of Slumdog do you have?

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CFM writes:
on Mar 31 2009 09:57 AM

Where are them dudes that bash everyone for posting opinions about movies in a forum that's used for posting opinions about movies?

I added Slumdog to my movie list. Those two foreign films look good too.

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JojoTR writes:
on Mar 31 2009 10:28 AM

Slumdog is amazing, will be picking it up.

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vitajex writes:
on Mar 31 2009 10:29 AM

I've got 'Tell No One' coming tomorrow, 'TimeCrimes' this weekend hopefully.

I'll probably have to wait for Slumdog, as everyone wants to see it.

Oh, and all you jealous suckers- I won two free tickets to a midnight showing of 'Slap Shot' Saturday night! (That's the only way I'd go. I'm not gonna pay $9 to see a movie my brother has on DVD...)

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JojoTR writes:
on Mar 31 2009 10:42 AM

Slumdog is amazing, will be picking it up.

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WinterSkies06 writes:
on Mar 31 2009 11:40 AM

Just the plain old single disc from walmart.

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whitey_mcwhite writes:
on Mar 31 2009 04:11 PM

In reply to this comment (#2404656)
People actually still have tv's with screens smaller than 30 inches?! I have three tv's in my house and none of them are smaller than 32.

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thejuggernautlives writes:
on Mar 31 2009 06:10 PM

In reply to this comment (#2404562)
Don't always believe what you hear jokerboy. Seven Pounds has a 73% from the RT community, which I always trust more than the critics. I personally thought it was a really good film, and Will Smith and Rosario Dawson gave great performances.

Anyway, I'll be picking that up. But most importantly, I will pick up Slumdog Millionaire. I also think I want to rent Timecrimes and Tell No One. I could do with some foreign language thrillers. I need some since I can't watch my Let The Right One In DVD until they re-release it with the proper subtitles. Anyone know when that might happen.

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the_don_of_yreka writes:
on Mar 31 2009 08:42 PM

I just watch Slumdog Millionaire. It's really a great movie.

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