Comments on: Edelstein on ‘Three Kings’

by: jaybird

Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:47:19 +0000

Two other War flicks I would recommend are The Big Red One, which chronicles the 1st Infantry Division during WWII and Patton which is a biography about one of the greatest military minds of all time.

by: ymatt

Mon, 07 Apr 2003 01:06:06 +0000

The book Starship Troopers is based on is nothing at all like the movie except in superficial ways. That said, I really like both for completely different reasons. I agree that the movie in all its campy glory is actually is a pretty damn good anti-war piece and I’m glad that somebody else has the same appreciation for it that I do. Dammit.

by: fierce

Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:46:23 +0000

One “war” movie I have been watching lately (I have to watch it in segments when the kids are otherwise occupied) is “Starship Troopers”. It is, in my opinion, a scathingly ANTI-war movie, although it was not advertised as such. I’d like to read the original story it was based on…

And of course, “Dr. Strangelove”. Anyway, both movies are surreal takes on the madness of warfare, and deserve a look. I have yet to see “Three Kings”, but I will look for it soon.

by: ymatt

Sun, 06 Apr 2003 18:17:08 +0000

It’s not really of the same variety of war movie, but the Japanese animated film “Grave of the Fireflies” is as good a reminder of what war means, even when justified, as anything I’ve ever seen. It follows the lives of a boy and his little sister around the time of the firebombing of Tokyo near the end of WWII. No attempt is made to demonize the Americans for the bombing; it’s just about the impact the war had on lives. This is what it looked like on the other side when we were trying to get the Nips.

I thought “Three Kings” was great by the way. It’s kinda surprising it got any large release in the first place — it certainly wouldn’t now.