(except Nick Nolte, WTF is up with him in this move?).

I am so with you on that. When he was first introduced, I thought there was something seriously wrong with him, or he was just going to be the crazy comic character, based on the way he was all slouched over with the funky hat doing funky things over the funky expression on his face. And then when he went into his we're all racists speech, I was really confused about what exactly he was trying to say. But then, later, when Terry George was talking, it became very clear where that speech came from, since he flat out said how he thinks the entire world is racist, and we all hate people from Africa, specifically because they are from Africa, and we look down upon them as being less than other blacks, even. Because they are black Africans. And we are racist. And that is why the Rwanda situation did not receive the same amount of funding and outreach help that the recent tsunami disaster did. However. How much were you sobbing during the scene with the Rwandan children's choir song, where the whites are being evacuated, and the orphans are being snatched out of the priest's, and nuns', arms? Or the scene where they were driving over the bodies? Those scenes will stay with me for a very long time.

I believe Nolte's character was loosely based upon General Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian peacekeeping officer who found himself unable to prevent the slaughter and unable to convince the world to help. It's a pretty tragic story, I know that Dallaire had some rough times upon his return to Canada (at least once he was found wandering the streets drunk).

Definitely a tragic story.

n a similar vein is The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk.

And Natalie Wood. Love this movie. Jack Lemmon has never played a role remotely like that again (basically Snidely Whiplash under another name) and he was hysterical.

Push the button, Max!

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MAAAAAXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!......

I really need to see Finding Neverland.

Those scenes were incredible, Alibelle--got me, too. I didn't have problems with Nolte's character, so much as his playing of it. I think if he'd given a better performance, his "racist" speech wouldn't have seemed to come out of nowhere so much.

Nice to see so many TMMITFM fans! (And don't forget the sewage ponds....)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk.

Two of my favorites, especially The Great Race.

Same for The Hallelujah Trail.

I loved that movie when I was young, but I haven't seen it in decades, so I have no idea how it holds up.

Oh wow. Did anyone already know that Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciorra are a couple? If they have children we'll all be blinded by the combined pretty.

Pooh meets the Oliphaunt

And I immediately flashed to "Pooh on the Pellanor Fields? Running around desperately not to get trampled by the Rohirrim or an Oliphaunt! Run, Pooh, run!"

The Great Race is a glorious movie. Jack Lemmon doing the dual roles of the villain and the king, Peter Falk having way too much fun for any human being ... I would watch that if I had the DVD. Sometimes you just have to watch the "he was save by a small friar--he was was saved by chicken?" scene.

I didn't have problems with Nolte's character, so much as his playing of it. I think if he'd given a better performance, his speech wouldn't have seemed to come out of nowhere so much.

I completely agree. I mean, it wouldn't have been impossible to tie all those elements together at all, but he didn't, so it just ended up being really confusing.

But everything else was great.