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Mandrake The Magician and Yoshi look at THREE KINGS!!!
Well, here are a pair of Arizona types that snuck a peek at David O Russell's film THREE KINGS that MORIARTY reviewed a few weeks back and loved! And these two... Agree. So... Mark the title in your mind... it is in mine, and I am eager to see if it is as good as the evil genius, the nintendo character and Lee Falks hocus pocus man say it is!
The film was in a fairly complete form. The sound mix needed a little more
work and a lot of work still needs to be done in the lab, as far as the color
of the film. The film does a great job of blending comedy, drama, and
suspense. The plot takes place at the end of Desert Storm. While taking in
the Iraq soldiers, some members of the U.S. army find a map. They believe
that this map will lead them to the Kuwaiti(?) gold. The first twenty
minutes are hysterical. They introduce all of the characters with a freeze
frame and then a caption, all of which were very funny. Then the film takes
a more serious tone as they head out for the gold. It still manages to have
many funny parts during this section, though. The characters looking for the
gold are played by George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike
Jonze(is this the great music video director?). The performances by these
four are all great. I was most surprised with Ice Cube. This is definitely
the best I have ever seen him. The cinematography was amazing, with a lot of
similarities to Saving Private Ryan. The action scenes were all shot hand
held, many shots had different speeds(fast and slow motion), and it had a
grainy look, similar to SPR. The action is the movie was great as well.
It's a much different take on action scenes than we're used to. It's a much
different type of movie than we're used to from the Studio system as well.
This has to do with the fact that David O. Russell directed it. He did a
fantastic job. He got great performances and told an extremely entertaining
story. The film is also very violent and gory, which some audience members
seemed not to like. I thought the violence was handled well and shot very
real. There are also a few interesting takes on some of the action scenes,
with some very slow-mo shots of bullets (not at all like The Matrix or a
Ringo Lam style bullet POV) and some great shots, inside the human body, of
what a bullet actually does. Most of the audience seemed to really enjoy it,
everyone laughed at the right parts. Three Kings just does a great job of
blending all of these genres. A lot of movies tend to really mess up when
they have a serious moment next to a funny one.
-Yoshi
Here's another view on the film:
I thought that the best part of the film was the way that it mixed the genres
as well. It went from a comedy format like I expected from Russell, to a
serious more dramatic tale or wrong or right like that of Treasure of the
Sierra Madre. The big surprise was not that Russell could handle the change
in style, but that the transitions between the styles were so well done.
This was a unique way of presenting a story that, put in the hands of a more
commercial director, would be unwatchable. Another thing that I loved were
the performances by the principle actors. George Clooney delivered a strong
performance that is comparable to the one that he gave in Out of Sight.
Wahlberg's performance is filled with truth and emotion that rivals his
remarkable one in Boogie Nights. Surprisingly, Ice Cube goes against his
image and does extremely well. Spike Jonze and Jaime Kennedy are both
hysterical throughout the film. Everything about this film was great. David
O. Russell has done it again.
-Mandrake
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This movie sounds like it will kick ass. Does anyone know if there is a trailer out for this movie yet or if not, when it will come out. BTW, Wahlberg just signed on to star with Clooney again in Wolfgang Petersen's The Perfect Storm. Cool!
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I've seen it and it is amazing. I can't image it not making my ten best by years end.
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I hate all the people who come here and all they do is whine like little girls that every movie is gonna suck, here i have an idea for all of you.. SHUT THE FUCK UP and SIT THE FUCK DOWN...
This movie sounds like it will be great, and living in the town where 80% of it was shot I got to meet all the stars, and so what if Mark was having problems with his DVD player, the guy still rocks. I look foward to movies that sound fun and this one is sounds fun. so for all you bitches and all you hos, when this movie comes out were gonna here Ice Cube say.. "Today was a good day" -
Jul 01, 1999 8:21:26 AM CDT
Above post was for future idiots and idiots on other boards
by silentscott
Thank you
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Harry,
Yoshi(mitsu) is a character that kicks ass in Tekken 3 - a Playstation franchise; not N64.
Now I'd just like to say to the (sic) *contributer* that likes to swear loads and tell everyone to sit down - hey dude; get a life and maybe you'll be able to write something without the *f* word. Its cool that you had the film shot in your home town. Lets leave it at that and let people have their opinions - that is, after all, what this 'talkback' section is about - opinion. -
I don't know about Yoshi in Tekken but the little green dinosaur thinngy in Super Mario Brother's World for the Super Nintindo was named Yoshi which is where I'm assuming Harry associated the name from
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Fair enough - I stand corrected (dont have many N64 games I'm afraid!!)
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...sounds good, no, infact sounds pretty damn excellent but lets not get carried away and start talking about 'top tens'. There are some many other better looking films coming out this summer.
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he's friends with DOR
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Anyone ever heard of "Kelly's Heroes"? Hollywood retro morons!
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