Hotel Rwanda

I saw this movie last night and my god is it good. I suggest everyone here to see it at once. Those who have seen it what you think of the movie?

It's a great movie, truly touching and meaningful. It makes us remember something that likely mosy of us want to forget, have forgotten or will never remember. The world failed Rwanda in every sense of the word, and the movie shows us what that failure cost as well as reminds us of the consequences of failure in future places.

I have been told it is extremely good, but haven't ever had the chance to watch it. I wonder if a movie can make up for the injustice there.

It can not make good for the injustices done but it atleast points out the injustices. A lot of people probably don't even know where Rwanda is. Now we know the world abandond Rwanda when it needed help the most. I tell you this movie made me despise those who arranged the withdrawal of those troops. Bah the UN are supossedly peacekeepers. They ****ing failed in there only objective and then they run away. What saddens me the most is that this is going on all around the world. Can't these people see that what they are doing is wrong and incredible stupid and fruitless?

Originally Posted by Ecclesiastes

It can not make good for the injustices done but it atleast points out the injustices. A lot of people probably don't even know where Rwanda is. Now we know the world abandond Rwanda when it needed help the most. I tell you this movie made me despise those who arranged the withdrawal of those troops. Bah the UN are supossedly peacekeepers. They ****ing failed in there only objective and then they run away. What saddens me the most is that this is going on all around the world. Can't these people see that what they are doing is wrong and incredible stupid and fruitless?

You can't take away too much credit from the peacekeepers. The UN may have screwed up but the guys on the ground to a great job. The colonel in the movie was a lt. gen. in real life and he saved something like 16000 people during the genocide. The movie couldn't focus on that and that was what irked me (after I did a bit of research).

a great flick. Though they didn't show the Hutu reprisal (though not as bad as the Tutsi's was still bloody)

Can't these people see that what they are doing is wrong and incredible stupid and fruitless?

They didn't see it that way, or else they wouldn't have gone through with it.
Anyway, it is over now and there is now peace in Rwanda

Excellent movie!

Sad but true, where there is no economic interest (Irak) you're on your own.

Great movie. Has anyone seen Sometimes in April? It was done by HBO. And I must say its better than Hotel Rwanda if that can be possible...

I've seen Sometimes in April, great movie, and very sad. I think it was better than Hotel Rwanda too.

If you're outraged by Hotel Rwanda, then read the book by Romeo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil. Dallaire was the vastly understocked, understaffed, undersupported and undermined (by the UN) commander of the peace mission there, that book really can make you angry at the injustice of what the world did.

I own this movie. Very good movie.

Moved, by the way.

Movies like Hotel Rwanda, Schindler's List, and the others really are important films to watch - they teach valuable lessons and are very moving.

That show on TV on the 10 year anniversary of the genocide - was that Sometime in April? If it was, I loved it.

There are also some great movies about the Khmer Rouge and the cambodian genocide - my mom's friend sponsered someone who survived the genocide, and he now lives in America. I interviewed him once for a school project - it was unreal.

Originally Posted by Al'Thor

Movies like Hotel Rwanda, Schindler's List, and the others really are important films to watch - they teach valuable lessons and are very moving.

That show on TV on the 10 year anniversary of the genocide - was that Sometime in April? If it was, I loved it.

There are also some great movies about the Khmer Rouge and the cambodian genocide - my mom's friend sponsered someone who survived the genocide, and he now lives in America. I interviewed him once for a school project - it was unreal.

I know one movie called Into the Killing Fields I believe about a reporter and his cambodian friend who gets left behind after the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge... Great movie!

I think that was something else, Sometimes in April was an HBO original, but it was made to have flashbacks and such.

You're probably thinking of Shake Hands With the Devil, the video one that I saw not long ago, I think that's the one that had the anniversary.

It shows just how cold hearted the west can be, although it was not our problem u.n troops were there, they should have been given the order to help out no matter what the cost.

This is the sort of movies i like ( Ghandi, hotel Rwanda, heart of America)
Not because there thrilling to watch, but because they really happened ( its quite inspirring or sad, to see what really happened, or what sort of happened)

i seen it
twas good
cheadle is a good actor
very intense and satisfying film