Hotel Rwanda

[Cruise Control]

I just watched this today, and I'm still in shock. It was a very intense experience.

Have any of you seen this movie, and what did you think?

[Bunny]

I thought it was pretty boring.

[Ender]

I thought it was pretty boring.

:confused:

Anyway, I thought it was an overwhelming experience. An emotional movie that didn't (need to) rely overmuch on Hollywood cheesiness to make you feel for the characters. That people can see it and dismiss it with a "so what--just another genocide movie" because it's about Africans really expresses one of the things the movie pointed out...if you saw it first hand, you couldn't deny the horror of it all, but otherwise Westerners generally couldn't care less about the suffering of people of another race in "a world apart."

[Mirage]

It's not race that makes me not care, it's more not knowing about it, because the media never focuses on it.

[Miriel]

It was an amazing movie about a really horrific situation.

[Rocket Edge]

It was an amazing movie.

[The Unknown Guru]

It was an amazing movie about a really horrific situation.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

It was an amazing movie about a really horrific situation.

Yeah. I cried when I watched it, which is rare for me. Usually I get watery eyed, but not cry.

If you want to read more about the genocide, you should try Romeo Dalaire's Shaking Hands with the Devil (I have yet to finish, but it is awesome and very moving). Dalaire (sp???) Was a Canadian UN officer sent to Rwanda during this time (something to that effect).

[I Took the Red Pill]

I did almost cry, it's powerful stuff.

[The Captain]

Between this powerful film and HBO's equally wrenching and much more graphic "Sometimes In April" perhaps the world will finally wake up to the evils that went on and ARE STILL happening in Africa as we speak.

Take care all.

[El Bandito]

While it was an amazing and moving film, it disappoints me that it took a film released 11 years later to make America care about the situation. Travesties like that still go on in Africa and the media still turns a blind eye to cover more sensationalist stories such as the Jon Benet Ramsey case. Plus, when they do show a little coverage, Americans don't care because there are no Americans in danger.

I'll be disappointed again when people talk about how moving the Darfur movie is when it's released around 2017.

[Nominus Experse]

Fuck, this movie was an intense experience. It pulled on one's emotional attachments and thoughts like most movies cannot. And many kudos to the actors - the emotional display was perfect.

I loved it. One of my favourites.

[NINJA_Ryu]

I just watched this today, and I'm still in shock. It was a very intense experience.

Have any of you seen this movie, and what did you think?

same

[Alex151]

I thought it was a great movie, Don Cheadle was really good in it