Last King of Scotland

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Forest Whitaker was excellent in this otherwise serviceable fictional story based on the Idi Amin regime.

[Guest cooby]

You got up at 6:30 on a Sunday to tell us that?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I was up because MK had an early wrestling tournament today.

He and D-Dad left for the tournament, and I eventually went back to bed.

[seawolf17]

I read your post too quickly, and I misread it as D-Dad having a wrestling tournament. I started to wonder if there was something we didn't know.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

This is what I love about this place - linear discussions

[Vic Sage]

About DD wrestling... does he do it like Alan Bates in Ken Russell's "Women In Love" adaptation?... naked, by candlelight?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I've never seen that film....

[Guest Rotblatt]

I found this film really powerful. Whitaker was amazing, like Scarlet said, but the doctor was also quite good at making a difficult character sympathetic. I thought the slimmed-down Gillian Anderson was great as well, actually, although her role was somewhat limited.

This is the third intensely dark movie I've seen over the last week--I've gone from Children of Men to Pan's Labrynth to this, and hot damn, am I ready for something a little lighter.

Despite it's atrocious reviews, I'm finding myself oddly drawn to Pirates of the Carribean, but I think Happy Feet will win out . . .

[Guest iramets]

50% inspiration, 50% perspiration. Not as impressive a performance as I'd been led to expect.

[Guest sharpie]

Saw it on video last night. Ah, to be reminded of the deportation of the Asians and the raid on Entebbe and feeding political enemies to crocodiles. Anyway, I liked it -- good performances by Whitaker and the Scottish guy.