I have to say outright that this is a great film, brilliantly made, and everything you can read everywhere else. I have to say it ‘cos I found myself appalled when I was placing it in my 1982 movies list and couldn’t help but put it under Grease 2: I’m just a sucker for that movie, I’m afraid, like I said to Sarah on iChat last night, it’s a choice between Ben Kingsley in a loin-cloth or Michelle Pfeiffer in a catsuit straddling a stepladder, it’s a no-brainer

But it is a great movie. I have to say it again. I can’t come up with great things to say about this movie, I just know that it’s amazingly put together: just look at the number of extras, all over the movie, you just don’t get that, and will probably never get that, these days.

It’s not right that it won Best Picture over E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial: it may be pretty offensive, but it seems like such a bizarre oversight now that I totally agree with whoever it was that said the voters must’ve looked at the main characters of the two movies and got confused.

But again, it’s a great movie. Great performances, huge cast, maybe among the last of its kind in ’82, and finally the thing that surprised me more than anything, it’s actually a decent story that never, even over 3 hours, gets boring. Brilliantly made, yes; but not necessarily great cinema. I’d actually say Attenborough’s Magic, a trashy horror movie I watched directly before Gandhi, was a more cinematic experience. Gandhi is obviously more important, though… I’m just not sure how much couldn’t just be read in a book somewhere, though…

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