Posted on 11/04/2005 1:17:13 PM PST by RWR8189
"But American Beauty now gathers dust on the bottom-shelf of cinema history where it sits forlornly next to Kramer vs. Kramer (which, in 1979 won Best Picture over Apocalypse Now) and Ordinary People (which beat out Raging Bull in 1980)."
All three of those movies are dramatically better than The English Patient.
Hey, I liked Three Kings, and I was in that war.
The NY Post panned the movie and gave it 1.5 stars. Sounds like one hell of a crappy movie...
I don't know how they come up with that description of it either. It showed American soldiers doing the right thing when the going got tough. It also captured the media tone of that war perfectly.
I thought it was decent entertainment, too... I didn't pick up anti-American in it -- unlike last nights ER.
"Why would Broyles and Mendes not merely invent a scene for dramatic purposes, but create a scene out of the exact opposite of how events actually took place?"
The better to create a scene to insult all Marines everywhere - that's why.
The award to "American Beauty" over "The Sixth Sense" was responsible for reducing my moviegoing by 95%. I had to go home and take a shower after AB.
Even this review makes the movie sound boring.
No kidding. I was looking forward to it too.
What happened in ER that was anti-American...?
I didn't find "Three Kings" to be anti-American either. Three of the four main characters were more or less respectful of the Iraqi civilians, and the fourth (played by Spike Jonze) became respectful. Furthermore, the truth hurts, and the ending was true: Daddy Bush encouraged the Shi'ites (and Kurds) to rise up, then didn't do much to prevent their slaughter until things started looking horrible in the media and the no-fly zones were established. I have always considered our not getting rid of Saddam once and for all in 1991 to be a shameful episode for America.
Please, nobody respond with the tired and lame "Bush had to follow the UN mandate" argument. No, we didn't, especially not after Saddam cranked it up again against his own people.
Just saw it and walked out.
I thought Three Kings was a good film, but there was a slight anti-American streak in it.
Three Kings was a little too surrealistic for my tastes, and the Gulf War was just a backdrop. In my mind it really wasn't a war movie at all. And I didn't care much for it.
Unfortunatly Danny Glover guested the past couple of episode -- need I say more???? -- last night the black doctor who is Glovers long forgotten son went to his house, ended up staying for dinner and the prayer by the wife at the table -- please forgive us for this horrible, illegal, war, President Bush has gotten us into.....
I am requoting a quote I read on the Internet a while back, but I believe it's true. An ex-soldier was asked about a certain 'anti-war' movie, and he said, "I've never seen an anti-war movie"
I think that's true for me as well. I'll bet the 'anti-war' movie, Apocalypse Now has caused FAR more enlistments than it has discouraged.
I even liked Born on The Fourth of July, even though Oliver Stone was obviously trying to make an ant-war, anti-American screed. I saw that heavy handed attempt and looked right past it to enjoy the movie.
I'll bet I'm not the only one to think this way.
Really?
Walked out?
Hope you spit on the movie poster on the way out!
Let's go see "Doom"!!!
Semper Fi!
Now Doom was a BAD movie.
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