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Babel (2006)
Crap-el
This movie was pure crap.
While I admire one's ability to take four seemingly disconnected events and connect them with thin little pieces of string . . . well, I guess I don't.
It had one redeeming quality: the Japanese storyline. Fleshing that story out for its own film would have been far more advisable than the theoretical exercise that is Crap-el.
When the movie ended ("Oh, thank God," I recall muttering), I looked at my wife and said, "So what?" She was napping.
Much to her benefit, I was able to convince her that she missed nothing.
Then I slid "Joe Dirt" into the DVD player. She didn't like it, but she didn't fall a sleep, either.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
And the award goes to?
I have nothing to add to the comments already made about the substance of this movie.
However, I find it shameful that this movie did not receive the Hollywood accolades it deserved.
I am under the impression that Hotel Rwanda is an independent film.
This probably explains its maltreatment: Hollywood congratulates only itself.
Many have compared this film to Schindler's List. That movie received more attention than any film in recent history. But of course, it was a true Hollywood film.
So sad for a movie that so powerfully portrayed the Rwandan genocide.
Sad also for Don Cheadle whose performance was magnificent.
American History X (1998)
Powerful
To be repetitive, this is one of the most powerful films I have ever watched.
And sorry, baypacman, but I'm not buying your dissertation. You seem to have wanted, or expected, a different movie. And that's fine. But the fact that Kaye produced his movie instead of your movie does not render American History X "extremely naive and intellectually bankrupt."
As to your third point, killing someone to protect your car's radio is not, in any state in this country, self-defense. It's called murder.
As to your fourth point, Derek turned his back on his fellow skinheads not because they had "dealings" with a Hispanic inmate, but because they were "dealing" drugs to the Hispanic inmate and, according to Derek's moral compass at the time, drugs were the scourge of the black community.
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982)
The Gold Monkey . . .
. . . was an absolutely fantastic show. I was only twelve when it aired, and given my age it holds the same place in my heart that movies like "Indiana Jones" hold (and yes, I know the former did not derive from the latter). It was fantastic in the true sense of the word. At the same time, it was light-hearted and fun and adventurous. I have ever since wanted to visit Boragora, and was disappointed to find that the place didn't exist.
I searched for hours on-line looking for the name of this show. For whatever reason, the image of it popped into my head a few months back, and I could not for the life of me remember it. Hours on-line cured that.
For all you Gold Monkey fans out there, you can now purchase the season on DVD.