The Last King of Scotland

[GILD]

Originally Posted by JJuggle

Allan gets around.

And saw on my 'on this day' show prep that he died today in 1973.

[UniBrier]

Rented the DVD tonight, Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin was excellent.

Originally Posted by BillyTheMountain

Ugandan band singing Me and Bobby McGee.

That was a high point, the rest of the film has some pretty brutal stuff.

Unbelievable that after everything he did through the 70's, he still lived into 2003.

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by JJuggle

"If I were paranoid." And while it's not clear from your rather tortured sentence structure exactly where your compassion is directed, it is clear that it is not directed at me. Which is fine. I don't need it.

You would be funny if your condition weren't so serious.

Now you think there's not just a conspiracy to irritate YOU, you think there's a conspiracy to torture sentence structures......

[JJuggle]

Originally Posted by BillyTheMountain

You would be funny if your condition weren't so serious.

Now you think there's not just a conspiracy to irritate YOU, you think there's a conspiracy to torture sentence structures......

Where were you today? Too busy conspiring to make stuff up? Couldn't take some time off to make it to LBI?

[domesticated ape]

I saw the film yesterday, it was well worth waiting for. Forest Whitaker is scary as hell, he definitely deserved the Oscar he won. He really got it across what a complex character Amin was, unpredictably skipping from charming to paranoid to dangerous and back again. There was a short documentary about Amin in the special features, which showed that some people who lived through his regime still think of him as a hero because of his nationalist and anti-imperialist policies. James McAvoy and the rest of the cast were pretty damn good too.

I thought the book was adapted very well. As always with a book adaptation there was a lot of plot that couldn’t be included, but what was included (and added) worked very well. I also liked the fact that the ending was sufficiently different to the book that I didn’t know what was going to happen.

[GILD]

Originally Posted by domesticated ape

some people who lived through his regime still think of him as a hero because of his nationalist and anti-imperialist policies.

I've been reading a lot about Milosovic recently.
In terms of some people still seeing him as a hero, the parallels are scary.