Three Kings

[eddie]

That has to be one of the most stupid questions Ive ever seen on this forum.
Probably because its a crap film, and you wasted 90 minutes of your life watching it.

[Eliud25]

Soldiers are supposed to be honorable. Soldiers are supposed to save the world. They are fearless,self-sacrificing,and good.Soldiers are supposed to be soldiers. Well I think I know what the problem is.In these movies they are protraid wrong. They are basically thiefs, or they need to be saved,or they are not self-sacrificing. So there you have it. I think that is why Three Kings and movies like Kelly's Heros,(and mabe even Saving Private Ryan)and a bunch of other movies didn't stick in our minds.Because they were completley or partially wrong society's interpretation of what soldiers should be.
But then again I've haven't yet seen Three Kings.But I've seen Platoon.So what do you think?


[This message has been edited by Eliud25 (edited June 07, 2000).]

[Voyager]

How, exactly, is Three Kings a "crap" film? It is one of the best movies to come out in a long while, in my point of view. It has action, true, but at also has something to say, and it says it well. Not many action movies can say that, and yet not many action movies can match the intensity of Three Kings. Three Kings had action, dark humor, drama, and social commentary...as well as good acting and camera work. Perhaps the psuedo intellectual bull shit of The Matrix is more your style, or the shitty action crapfest that is Mission Impossible 2, but for me, Three Kings is a great unconventional Hollywood movie. (well look at it this way, not many war movies make you sympathize with the said "enemies" as this one did)

[eddie]

Cant resist replying to that.
Its crap because he/she didnt like it, or at least he/she has nothing to say about it or think about it, no lasting value (to him/her).
This is not a complicated issue and is a waste of this forum.
So you like it. So to you its not a crap film.
Subjectivity.
Now can people redirect their enthusiasm toward what this forum is for, rather than as an excuse for having no friends to talk film with???
Perhaps Im in the wrong place. I can go away if you like

[sirchimpalot]

Matrix - psuedo intellectual?

Intellectual????

Ha ha ha ha!

[WUXflooble]

"Un-conventional Holywood movie"
thats a bloody new one!

Indeed, I once had the pleasure of
viewing an un-conventional crock of
shite. Ya can't have ya Holywood cake
and eat it too.

[tashunka]

wuxflooble.......i would have to agree with what you said about "delicatessen". It's an excellent film.
It's all about subjectivity. Films are art therefore there is no good, bad, right, wrong.....it's all a matter of opinion.
Personally I agree that most "hollywood" films are crap. Mostly because they are made for money and not love of the art, following formulas for "success".

ta ta for now.
tash.

[director666]

hey, there are quite afew films that are shallow and down right shite, BUT doesn't that mean that we all have a chance at making movies that are actually good???? if there are shit movies out there then we know we all have a chance at making in the industry .....
But there are exceptions.... Fight Club is THE best film ever made because it has so many angles and point of views, it makes you think, and it's not the happy-ending-pro-we-love-america bullshit, it's a dark film with self-destruction as the main film! and then we have sixth sense, american history x etc etc

but it all means we can do it, make things different, dont give a fuck if you dont conform to someone else's standards ... do what YOU wanna do .....

cheers!

Gav

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" what did i tell you, what did I say to you?
I said buy the roadmap and leave...."

[FlashingHobo]

George Clooney even hates it!

[Rabid_Communist]

I know everyone has there opinions and such, but fuck... I've never seen a film get

[OPINION]
undeserved attention as Fight Club. Have people been brainwashed into loving this? Granted, it's interesting to look at, but it's such a waste of potential! I've never seen a movie take so many great elements at the start and then totally ruin them!
[/OPINION]

But that's just my way of seeing it (I can't help myself when I see someone praising Fight Club... awsome dvd though)

And Three Kings? I'd hardly call it a Hollywood film, although it was made within the system. I found it to be head over heels better then the drivel that was Fight Club...

[edit] Thought I'd ask why such an old and pointless thread was bumped...[/edit]

[This message has been edited by Rabid_Communist (edited September 04, 2000).]