Last week, Kerry and I went to dinner with her long-time and my new friend, Louise. Louise is a year older than us, and since she has been working for the Rwandan Government for 3 years, generally considered a "wealth of information."
So we took advantage of the opportunity. What restaurants are worth going to? Kerry had only been to a few as she lived in Nyamata last year, and I had only been to a few, because well, I am still new. So after the rundown, Louise mentioned something else. The movie theater, CineStar. As most of you know, I am a huge movie fan. So finding out there was a real theater? Well, I had to check it out.
Originally we were going to go with Louise and numerous other friends and change the movie that was being shown with one of my DVDs (I brought all my movie DVDs (left the tv shows) in my carryon). But as Louise had conflicting plans Kerry and I and 2 other friends decided to brave the scheduled movie. It was terrible.
Breaking Point, starring Busta Rhymes. I remember him as the older brother in Finding Forrester. So I thought it was worth a shot. Well about 4 minutes into the move a woman gets her throat slit while her baby is thrown out a window by BR. None of the characters evoked any sympathy. None could deliver their terrible written lines to salvage the terrible plot. In fact, I am fairly confident that the cast took voice lessons from William Shatner.
The bright side? A real movie theater. With popcorn. And the movie took place in NYC so I had a lot of shots of Harlem and Times Square to make me miss my last 'home'.
Interestingly enough, our Rwandan friend (We were 3 Americans and 1 Rwandan) thought it was a great movie and really enjoyed all the action. So at least it wasn't a total bust, and under $3 for a Friday Night movie? I'll go again.
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