Three Kings = Very Poignant War in Iraq Movie

[Reverend Joe]

I don't think you can really put a lot of these movies together.

Saving Private Ryan just seemed, to me, to be a straight-up depiction of World War 2, albeit rather limited to the Americans. It just follows a single squad of soldiers as they progress through their campaign, and finally get destroyed in a battle they can't possibly win. It is hard for me to watch, but it is a good realistic war movie.

Three Kings isn't really a war movie; it is sort of its own kind of animal. It is somewhat anti-war, but it is also simply a way of viewing both sides of a conflict much like the one we are embroiled in right now. You may leave it feeling that it was pro-war, in that we should have done more, or anti-war in that we should have done less.

Stalingrad (which, by the way, is the single most depressing war movie I have ever seen) is more like Apocalypse Now to me. It starts out in an ordinary war situation, but from there the whole thing gets wierder and wierder, finally ending with the surrender of the Sixth army wothout the viewer even realising this has happened until we see Paulus and his staff amrching away with their hands up. Even then, the soldiers don't seem to relaise what has happened, and they keep trying to break out. Still, it is one of the best war movies I have ever seen.

[Navaros]

Three Kings isn't really a war movie; it is sort of its own kind of animal. It is somewhat anti-war, but it is also simply a way of viewing both sides of a conflict much like the one we are embroiled in right now. You may leave it feeling that it was pro-war, in that we should have done more, or anti-war in that we should have done less.

yes! what you said here is exactly the point i was trying to get across of why Three Kings is a masterpiece of a movie. because philosophically speaking, Three Kings depicts war in a much more realistic way than most other movies. other movies which usually tend to present things in the overly-simplistic cliche of of having "Americans are the 'saintly good guys'" and "non-Americans are the 'evil bad guys'"

[Lazul]

If you want realism, no overdone dramatics or lame hero-tales then I suggest you watch "Framom främsta linjen", its a movie about Swedish speaking Finns during the war against the Russians.
Framom främsta linjen is one of the most realistic war movies ever and it is shown plain and simple how it happened... seeing as Harry Järv himself, whom the movie is based on was on set to help. Even what the soldiers are saying is almost 100% correct.

see it!