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What can I say? It's the feel-good movie of the season. I think there are a total of four jokes in the whole movie, but they feel like drops of spring water in a dust bowl. (I can imagine the director talking to the writer trying to come up with these humanizing ligher moments in a genocide movie).
Back during our courtship, my wife and I watched a lot of movies together. My wife went through a strange phase where she only wanted to watch movies or read books about The Holocaust. And it was something cool and quirky to do. But we were younger then.
Fast forward to now: my wife's brother saw Hotel Rwanda and loved it so much that he bought the DVD. We borrowed it from him about three months ago, and had yet to get in the mood for watching a movie about genocide. When we finally got around to watching it tonight, our stomachs turned into knots and we almost had to turn it off several times. What has happened to us? Has old age wimpified us?
I knew we should have went to see that penguin movie!
All joking aside: Don Cheadle is great, the story rocks, great movie, great additional documentary footage, everybody should see it, blah, blah, blah.
But at the heart of it, the movie is a love story.
I told my wife that if the crap really hit the fan and I was killed and murderous thugs were about to get her, then she needed to get on the roof and jump off of it with our four dogs and five cats.
Posted by Mike Waugh at August 20, 2005 11:01 PMYeah, you should have seen the penguin movie. I swear my friends and I were almost kicked out of the theatre from laughing so hard at penguins busting their asses. (Do they have asses?)
Posted by: Sara at August 21, 2005 12:04 AM(Do they have asses?)
They must have 'em. Elsewise, why would they get dressed up in tailcoats?
But more importantly, does the penguin movie have a love story? I won't watch a movie unless it incorporates a love story somehow. Even the dullest theme, like genocide or migration, can be made palatable if two people (or possibly penguins) are able to fall in love while it all happens.
Posted by: Robert Waugh at August 23, 2005 07:39 PM