what did you all think? just rented it this weekend. i thought it was great...presented a very scary picture of the wars for control of africa's resources. well acted, i thought.

coincidentally, i was reading in the NYT about how Bashir is continuing to supply the Janjaweed militia in Sudan with heavy artillery.

I enjoyed it much.

I didn't like it at all. The sexual tension between Leo & Jennifer Connelly is typical Hollywood crap. The subject matter deserved better.

I haven't seen it yet but I don't understand how Leo got nominated best actor for this over The Departed.

Accents, shiv, accents

i thought leo did a stellar job in both. he's become an amazing actor.

agreed about the connely/leo part, opa. i did like almost everything else.

the movie did make me appreciate the (relative) safety that we are afforded in the us of a.

I thought he did a decent job with the Boston accent, especially when he said Jordan Mahsh.

shiv, OT, who is that gal in your avatar?

I have no idea. I suspect it's a girl I drunkenly sent a message to on myspace though.

I watched it on the trip back from Taiwan last Friday. It was an okay plane movie, meaning I didn't fall asleep.

did she respond?

can't remember, it was quite awhile ago that i saved that picture.