Asked pertinent questions about US involvement in Iraq (with obvious parallels with what's going on right now)was funny, and some great cinematography.
Anyway, is it as good as I thought it was? Or was it just the novelty of sitting and watching a previously unwatched film for the first time in ages.
ps Ice Cube was way cool.
― chris, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Emma, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Destroying a helicopter using an American football laced with c4 was a work of true genius.
The camera work with the bullets flying was great too.
Unfortunately I also agree with all of you.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Certainly I like its viewpoint and the points it makes about the Gulf War, but I think there was too much romp - leaving us with a ludicrous ending which I think could have been a lot harder hitting and therefore possibly more effective. Having Spike Jonze's character as the only one that dies is a pity because it is almost as if his ignorance (he's the stupid character after all) is what doomed him to dying. Generally I found Ice Cube's character pretty superfluous - he's there to illustrate one point (the sand nigger jokes) and beyond that not much else.
Its a good movie, but I think it played a wee bit too safe in places. And the title is terrible. It tips the wink that Jonze is going to get it from start.
― Pete, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It doesn't until after he dies. Three kings = how Jonze refers to himself, Wahlburg, and Ice Cube in the very beginning of the film. More than once! George Clooney wasn't included in it.
Anyhow, I love that movie, George Clooney is the bomb.
― Ally, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Say what you will about Clooney, but he's alright in my book.
― Andy, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Flirting With Disaster is a magnificent movie - the best screwball comedy of the nineties.
― Pete, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Wheeler, you are drunk.
― Ally, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 6 April 2003 04:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 April 2003 05:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Current political climate as reason for liking the film: Dud, I guess, but it's a good excuse for people who haven't seen it to do so.
Tom's sum-up upthread - "an action romp with essentially liberal undertones" - Classic, and I'll use that as my hook when getting people to watch it.
Only Dud part of the movie for me, now, is Jamie Kennedy, not because he sucks in it but because I can't see him any more without thinking of him as "The Jamie Kennedy Experience."
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 6 April 2003 05:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
Neither really... But it's still too early to tell.
I liked Three Kings back when it was released and I think I like it a little bit more now. I've been meaning to check out the DVD for the extras.
Oh, and for folks interested in the current NYT article, it's here.
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 6 April 2003 05:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
So is there going to be a sequel to correct that happy ending?
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Sunday, 6 April 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 6 April 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
we sent one out on his bike, to the video store, and he had trouble crossing police lines around protester lines in the middle of roads, etc.
I like it a lot and have seen it lots of times as it was one of the few films I had with me in the czech republic for four months.
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
BTW Blount is OTM re: Kelly's Heroes - which is still one of my favorites - KH needs a journalist chick though
― Millar (Millar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 April 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
George Clooney = totally rad. Did you know he tried out for the Reds at one point? He talked about it with (ugh) Bob Costas in a HBO Real Sports interview last year.
I get the feeling that David O Russell would be hard to work with (he's an "auteur" and all that that entails). Spanking the Monkey was terrible, though Flirting With Disaster had its moments. (he did those, right?)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have a 100% true, juicy-as-Hi-C story on Georgie which would disprove the ever-likelihood of this proposition, but I'm not going to post it on here; I think I've already discussed it at length in some Ilxaim chat.
― Vic, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Elvis, Bobby Rahal and Budweiser.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
= the greatest blurb ever!
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Warner Brothers has decided not to distribute the director David O. Russell's new antiwar documentary when it re-releases his 1999 Gulf War movie, "Three Kings," this fall, judging it "totally inappropriate" to do so in a political season, a studio spokeswoman said.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
This movie is evergreen.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
i wish spike jonze acted more, he's really good in this
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
is the 'Method Acting with Ice Cube' thing on the DVD as great as I hear it is?― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, April 7, 2003 1:26 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkit really is, james. you totally need to see it.― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, April 7, 2003 2:08 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it really is, james. you totally need to see it.― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, April 7, 2003 2:08 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol I will still vouch for this.. there's a companion piece to it on the being john malkovitch dvd which is basically spike jonez throwing up
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
it's kind of a trip to realize what a gamble it was to cast Spike in this ($42M then, now $65M) budget film, you have to remember this was pre-Malkovich & pre-Jackass. At the time he was known mainly for directing skateboarding videos (esp. Video Days, one of the best skate videos ever) & music videos ("100%", "Cannonball", "Buddy Holly", "Sabotage", "Da Funk", etc.)
But here he was doing a legitimate stretch acting role in his Hollywood debut, and I'm pretty sure he did his own stunt when his car gets blown up.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 06:47 (three years ago) link
There were probably lots of gen x cusps who didn't realize it was Spike in the "Praise You" video or who didn't really care either way. But by that point in history I figured he was kind of a counter culture celebrity.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link