| Author |
Message |
    
Scullars
Regular Poster
Username: Scullars
Post Number: 49
Registered: 02-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 08:53 am: | 
|
Hotel Rwanda is the story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager at an upscale hotel in Rwanda, who managed to house and protect over 1,000 Tutsis from massacre during the Hutu uprising. According to early reviews, it is a tour de force for Don Cheadle (whom I always thought of as a magnificent actor) and I hope this movie comes up for the awards it surely deserves. But at least the world will know of Mr. Rusesabagina (whom the press has written relatively little about given he should be lauded as another Schindler). Here is a Salon review of the movie:
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/22/hotel_rwanda/index.html |
Carey
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Carey
Post Number: 387
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 02:34 am: |
|
Thanks for the heads-up Scullars. I've been looking for that one holiday movie that the whole family can pile into. You know, on one of those days when everybody is fat and greasy and ready to get out of the house. Yeah, we just pick a movie and settle in. Now if the movie is of a serious nature we can be cool but if it's a laugh out loud type, ooooh, we gonna let it go. So Scullars, I think you've mentioned other movies .....what else, but wait, out of 10, what would you give the movie and Cheadle. Ol'boy is at the top of his game ain't he. I don't think I've seen him in a part I did not like. What about Ray, I still haven't checked it yet? Yeah, I'm way behind.....way behind.
A few years ago I'd be at the theaters door waiting for the delivery man. Life has been a little different but it's all for a reason and I believe it's a done deal.
In your opinion has Samuel Jackson's work gone down? My family was crackin on Samuel saying he reminds them of Al Pacino with all that hollering. We fell out laughing when my son did the scenes from Al's movies all the way back to the scene when he slapped his wife in The Godfather. I have to admit that several of Samuel's last parts seemed to been about the money. But Off the top of my head there's only one of Samuel's movies that just didn't do me. That was....ut oh.....what was that 649? The one in which he was a chump teacher. I didn't like that at all.
Scullars, give me a few leads and what do you think will happen to the Oscar votes if Cheadle and Jamie Fox both make it on the bus? Are they even in the same catagory? Now THAT would be something, best lead a best supporting role....what....come on now, they'd ban movie watching  . Hey, ya gotta watch'em........but you know that...huh.
Carey |
Scullars
Regular Poster
Username: Scullars
Post Number: 50
Registered: 02-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 08:55 am: |
|
Hey Carey,
I plan to see the movie in January (Christmas budget has me tuckered out for December), but from early reviews, this is a must-see. As for Cheadle, he has the ability to take the smallest role and make it his own and sometimes even outshine the star. I still remember his remarkable comedic turn as Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress. As for the Oscars, I think Hotel Rwanda might have been released too late for the 2005 Oscars. If it is up for consideration next year, and Cheadle is up against Foxx, I think definitely Cheadle should win. Whereas Foxx was remarkable in Ray, I have a feeling that Cheadle is going to be phenomenal.
Also, I expect Hotel Rwanda to strike an emotional chord with the audience on several levels - empathy, heartbreak, in some cases, guilt. For that reason alone, the Oscar might go to the movie as some token of recompense which has come too late. My ears are now open to things happening in Africa, like the slaughter of Africans by Arabs in Darfur. Hopefully, this movie will awaken our national consciousness when we hear of thousands being slaughtered wholesale. I expect some of the movie to anger me, but then I should be angry with myself for not having paid enough attention when it was first going on.
Regarding Samuel Jackson, I haven't seen him in anything lately. I did see a trailer featuring him in a biopic of a basketball coach who puts his players' education before the game. Looked interesting. |
Carey
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Carey
Post Number: 388
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 12:40 pm: |
|
Okay S'lars, I know about that budget thing. Jackson as a basketball coach huh, oh no, here comes that hollering again. I feel you on the quilt and thangs regarding Rwanda. We all should but for years.....years there have been so sort of deep killing going on over there and we simply don't want to hear it. Sad isn't it. The national journalist "Robinson" tried to pull our coats but again we had better things to do or a different color of person to protect. ooouuuu weeee, don't get me started this morning. Bye now, you have a nice Holiday vacation.
BTW y'all, I've talked with Thump and he's cool, he is just laying back.
Carey |
Scullars
Veteran Poster
Username: Scullars
Post Number: 51
Registered: 02-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 10:20 pm: |
|
You have a wonderful holiday too. |
|
Email This Page