You try to believe that there's some greater purpose to it all, but after an experience like this, you realize that there isn't any point to it whatsoever and we're all just idiots running around after some abstract goal that pleases us at the time.
In fact, I was duped into thinking I would be watching a semi-intelligent and well-planned-out war movie with a heist-type narrative, led by good actors and with a decent filming budget.
What I actually got was something much more sinister: a pi**-take on war that turned into a farcical comedy, which felt more like a Monty Python movie or Private Benjamin with Goldie Hawn, than something I actually wanted to watch.
What on earth just happened and how did I read into this so badly? How can you go from a potentially serious situation to charade at the flick of a switch? I have no idea what I just watched and I didn't find it funny, which was actually a shambles that really bored me and ruined a couple of hours of my moderately planned out evening.
I guess I should have seen the word "comedy" as the third key-point in the movie's description, but I still can't gather how something like was supposed to be funny, unless it's cynical and nasty?
My guess is that I arrived at Three Kings 20 years too late and might have enjoyed it back then when the Gulf war was relevant, and anything to do with Sadam Hussain was jokingly shocking in an idiotic way.
In fact, I was duped into thinking I would be watching a semi-intelligent and well-planned-out war movie with a heist-type narrative, led by good actors and with a decent filming budget.
What I actually got was something much more sinister: a pi**-take on war that turned into a farcical comedy, which felt more like a Monty Python movie or Private Benjamin with Goldie Hawn, than something I actually wanted to watch.
What on earth just happened and how did I read into this so badly? How can you go from a potentially serious situation to charade at the flick of a switch? I have no idea what I just watched and I didn't find it funny, which was actually a shambles that really bored me and ruined a couple of hours of my moderately planned out evening.
I guess I should have seen the word "comedy" as the third key-point in the movie's description, but I still can't gather how something like was supposed to be funny, unless it's cynical and nasty?
My guess is that I arrived at Three Kings 20 years too late and might have enjoyed it back then when the Gulf war was relevant, and anything to do with Sadam Hussain was jokingly shocking in an idiotic way.