Hotel Rwanda made me bawl like a little baby

[LynneSin]

That was an amazing film and if Jamie Foxx wasn't so damn good in Ray, I think this would have been Don Cheadle's year for the Oscars.

Anyone else see this film? I started to bawl when the catholic priest showed up with all the nuns & orphan kids (the non-Rwandans were allowed on the bus but non of the kids) and I didn't stop until about 3 hours after I had finished watching the movie

[9119495]

1. I like it a bunch but did not love it.

I would reccommend viewing "The Triumph of Evil." It is a Frontline episode that you can access through the PBS website. They also have a two hour follow-up on their somewhere.

I guess what I am saying is while I found the dramatization of "Hotel Rwanda" compelling, the real events were much moreso. Cheadle was phenomenal but if you watch that Frontline episode, you'll see even more amazing "performances."

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. I bawled like a baby too. And I agree about Cheadle's performance

Another movie about the genocide,"Sometimes in April", was also good. It showed on PBS a few weeks ago:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400063/

[Jessica]

3. Made me cry, too ...

It was an excellent movie. Very intense & eye-opening. Great acting, too. Did you watch the extra documentary on the DVD - where they followed the real Paul for his first trip back to Rwanda? Very emotional, too.

[LynneSin]

4. That memorial with all the dead mummified on the table

:cry:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. That was horrifying

:cry:

And the fact that they targeted little children to wipe out the next generation.

[MissB]

5. I didn't appreciate Don Cheadle until this movie.

I went to see the movie at a theater, with a couple of friends. Nothing like a little sobbing amoung friends.

It was an amazing movie.

[Orangepeel]

7. I cried a couple of times

It wasn't a pleasant movie, but it was very ... powerful. I'm glad I saw it. I just wish it had made a bigger difference in exposing that the same thing is still happening in Sudan and the Congo.

[Schema Thing]

8. yeh, me too.

kinda needed a hot shower to cry in, to try and wash off the dirt of being human after that.

[tigereye]

9. I want to see it

but I am not quite ready for the catharsis I know it will be. Haven't quite been up to it yet.

[Lindsey]

10. Probably one of the most devasting films I've ever seen...

right up there with Schindlers list, the Deer Hunter, and The Pianinst...I don't know if I think everyone should see it or if no one should see it.

[tigereye]

18. I could handle Schindler's List

I thought Life Is Beautiful was harder to watch.

[NYYFan]

11. Best movie of 2004

Just completely overshadowed by Ray.

Don Cheadle is an amazing actor and portrayed Paul Rusesabagina acurately, according to the real Paul Rusesabagina.

I cried several times during the movie, but the scene when the Belgians came to evacuate all the non-Rwandans from the hotel about sent me over the edge. To see all of the Rwandans in the rain, and the ppl dry on the bus was almost to hard to bear.

[Guaranteed]

12. That movie was INTENSE. NEVER seen anything like it.

It was surreal.

Yeah, tearing up through the whole thing. It jerks you around so much.

What that guy did was amazing. The ultimate politician.

[GalleryGod]

13. As stunning and compelling as Don Cheadle's performance was...

(and has he EVER given a lousy performance ?)I'm convinced the Academy got it right in the Best Actor category this year.:popcorn:

Look at Cheadle's performance as Pvt. Washburn in "Hamburger Hill".
Indeed, Don has been "very special" from the very beginning of his career.

[Guaranteed]

14. Even Boogie Nights (which I actually thought was a pretty good

movie).

[maveric]

15. He played a great "Sammy" in "Ratpack".

He looked and sounded like the real Sammy.

[GalleryGod]

16. Indeed he did, Mav!

Loved it!

I'm a self-confessed "Rat Pack" devotee!

Those were the days-Vegas is a theme park with dice,now.:sarcasm:

[redqueen]

17. I'm afraid to watch it.

Hell, even the NEWS accounts make me tear up. :(