"Three Kings"=A Good Film on Iraq? (My Title)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 4/11/03 | Louise Steinman

[L.A.Justice]

This article is titled, " 'Kings': Iraq war primer?"

[L.A.Justice]

I never watched THREE KINGS before...I don't intend to watch it in the future because George Clooney is in it. Also, the film's director is an America-hating liberal...

The article discusses the screenwriter and the director of THREE KINGS...They sure sound like liberals.

The screenwriter originally meant the George Clooney character to be black...He commented that black soldiers never expected to fight against other people of color. (Couldn't Iraqis be considered as "white people"?)

Director David O. Russell had a poster, proclaiming "No War in Iraq" at his home. He worked in Central America during 1980s and came to conclude that US was somehow responsible for the bad conditions in that region.

Mr. Russell conceded that it may be a good idea to get rid of Saddam...But, he said that there are other big issues. One was that US consumes too much oil. Another issue was that US supports dictators everywhere. (What? I didn't know that US supported Kim Jung-Il and Fidel Castro...)

He also considers poverty in Central America to be a big issue...He wonders why Central America have not produced terrorists...

Mr. Russell did work with Iraqi film extras, who suffered under Saddam's regime...(Yet, he does not support the Iraq war.)

This article is critical of George H.W. Bush for "abandoning" Shiite rebels at the end of the first Gulf War...(Is that really a fair criticism?)

It is fortunate that I did not spend money at the theatre, watching Mr. Russell's film. Why help a liberal, who thinks that America is the problem?

[Support Free Republic]

Donate Here By Secure Server

Or mail checks to
FreeRepublic , LLC
PO BOX 9771
FRESNO, CA 93794
or you can use
PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com

Become A Monthly Donor
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD-
It is in the breaking news sidebar!

[Fifth Business]

I saw it some years ago and didn't like it. Clooney plays his normal jerk self. The only movie I've seen with Clooney it it that I really liked was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, which was really good. But Clooney actually had to act in that film.

[Taldeine]

Gee we consume too much enegry . Perhaps if we didn't supply the world with most of it's goods we wouldn't have to. The only sceen in the movie I liked was the part when they all were thinking of what they would do with their share of the money, and all the southern guy could think sbout was shooting up an old car with his shot gun back home. Kinda ironic huh? Clooney's dream /greed.... Ice Cube's /greed southern boy /I wish I was home where owning a gun isn't a crime yet... Better get back fast, Liberal's love unarmed pesants.

[Mister Magoo]

I enjoyed the movie. It was mildly anti-war, somewhat in the vein of "Kelly's Heroes" with Clint Eastwood. But the filmmakers' portrayal of Bush "abandoning" the Shia seems to have crept into the realm of common knowledge, when in fact it is wholly untrue. The Allies' mandate in 1991 was solely to free Kuwait, not to overthrow Saddam. There wasn't political support at the time for an all-out invasion, with the attendant resulting casualties. Bush never promised the Shia that the US would militarily intervene.

[x]

A fellow named David Edelstein talked up "Three Kings" in the NY Times last week as the best film on the Iraq wars. A writer at the NY Press retorted that it was another in a long line of military caper movies, like 1970's "Kelly's Heroes." I liked the movie, but it's hard to think of it as much more than that. Rather than a deep comment on the Gulf Wars it may just be another battle in Clooney's campaign to become this generation's (non-singing) Frank Sinatra.