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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
BelAir:
--- Quote from: Lucise on December 31, 2007, 09:06:57 pm ---I recently got the DVD, haven't watched it yet. Will remedy that soon.
Did you watch Hotel Rwanda ? (that's another one I want to check out)
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Hotel Rwanda is on my Netflix list but I haven't seen it yet. Let us know what you think of Last King. I did not know anything about Idi Amin before watching the movie.
Lumière:
--- Quote from: BelAir on December 31, 2007, 10:35:39 pm ---Hotel Rwanda is on my Netflix list but I haven't seen it yet. Let us know what you think of Last King. ...
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Will do.
I saw Robots tonight....loved it!
If you haven't seen it yet, check it out when you feel like taking a light, entertaining break from more 'serious' movies.. :)
MaineWriter:
I watched "For Your Consideration" last night, the latest effort from Christopher Guest & Co. (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind). I loved his other movies. I didn't see this one in the theater because it had very mediocre reviews but I thought on TV it might be worth a few chuckles. Wrong. It was very disappointing in every way.
Oh well, at least I didn't waste money in the theater or on a DVD!
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serious crayons:
Hotel Rwanda is excellent. Very moving, very informative, very shocking and sad and scary. It really gets you thinking about why the U.S. does or doesn't get involved in conflicts in other countries and whether or not they should. There's one scene I'll never forget -- an American TV journalist gets some footage of the carnage in the streets, and the Rwandans hiding out in the hotel are all excited about how, once the world sees what's going on, they'll be saved! And Joaquin Phoenix breaks the news that, no, they'll look up, go, "it's that terrible," and go back to their dinners. Which of course is exactly what happened.
Don Cheadle is magnificent, and all the main actors are good. Despite its subject matter the film isn't particularly graphically violent. Just last night I saw a trailer for another movie about Rwanda, but the stars were all white people. The movie looked good, but in general I hate that practice; it suggests audiences can't connect to movies in which the movies are about black people or Asians unless they have a white star. So I loved that Hotel Rwanda didn't resort to that.
Shasta542:
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2008 movie preview: The 10 most anticipated movies of the new year and more:
http://movies.msn.com/movies/hitlist/12-28-07?GT1=7701&
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