Sounds Like a Hit! video blog Ep. 7: Slumdogs, "Rev Roads", and Sam Mendes' domestic issues

of the different emotional responses that the two movies evoke. Personally, I hated Revolutionary Road, not least because Kate Winslet was so obviously acting (she's infinitely better in The Reader). Thanks for having produced such a succinct round-up.

Oddly, Mad Men did a better job at adapting the novel Revolutionary Road than Revolutionary Road did.

Slumdog Millionaire is just sooo overrated,I especially agree with the point that the so-called "love" is way beyond lame and very hard for me to root for. There is just no relationship going on.He thinks she is pretty,then they are suppose to be together.Really?How refreshing!

The film seems to have divided audiences a lot. I think if the screenwriter had spent more time showing some love between April and Frank Wheeler at the start of the film, the relentless darkness would have work better in the rest of the film. I thought Kate and Leo were fine but Mendes was probably not the right person to direct this film. Which is a shame because the novel it is based on is so good and it will probably never be made into a film again.

I wish people would stop bringing up Mad Men. Revolutionary Road was written way before Mad Men and exposed the dark side of suburbia first. Books like The Ice Storm and Little Children wouldn't have been written without the Yates novel before it.

Maybe Mendes should try doing a film about British small town life.

Meanwhile he's done some fine work on stage, including Cabaret and the current productions of The Cherry Orchard and A Winter's Tale in Brooklyn.