night at the movies

I watched Lord of War Monday night. It was showed as part of the 'Small Arms and Light Weapons Film Festival' (cheery, I know) at the Yugoslav Film Museum. It was sponsored by the United Nations Development Program and involved free appetizers - and the movie was free too.

I decided to watch it after hearing B and K praise it late last week and to give Nicolas Cage another chance. A and my brother have both praised him to me and I just don't see it. He usually does a good job, but has never blown me away.

This film was very good, very interesting, very good dialogue. Or maybe that's just because it was free. My judgement of movies get clouded when they are free. I really liked Legally Blonde because I paid no money to see it & Babe: Pig in the City will always have a special place in my heart because the film kept falling off the reel & I ended up with two free drinks & two free movie passes.

The film is about an arms trader - it's grim & the anti-light weapons people definately made their point.

The best moment of the film was when Nicolas is complaining that one of the warlords in Africa just signed a peace treaty & Nicolas won't be able to deliver a planeload of weapons, "let's send them to the Balkans. . . they always have a war when they say they will." Everyone laughed. It was a bitter laugh, but they laughed.