{"id":9626,"date":"2010-11-01T04:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2010-11-01T04:16:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:16:59","slug":"blu-ray-three-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/01\/blu-ray-three-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray: Three Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003V1YHF4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003V1YHF4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9627\" title=\"Ice Cube, Mark Whalberg and George Clooney in Three Kings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ice-Cube-Mark-Whalberg-and-George-Clooney-in-Three-Kings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003V1YHF4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003V1YHF4\">Three Kings<\/a><\/strong> (Warner Bros.): Set during Operation Desert Storm this brilliant 1999 drama \u00a0is the story of four US soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze) who loot $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s army.<\/p>\n<p>The third film from director David O&#8217;Russell (after Spanking the Monkey and Flirting With Disaster) was one of the best films of its year, a daring hybrid of Kelly&#8217;s Heroes and M*A*S*H featuring some dazzling  visuals, fine performances and manages to entertain whilst also making pointed commentary about US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a5-BTvCMjAA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a5-BTvCMjAA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The special features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two audio commentaries: The first is a highly informative track by director David O. Russell who discussing various elements in detail. The second by producers Charles Roven and Edward L. McDonnell and<\/li>\n<li>On the Set of &#8216;Three Kings&#8217; (21:32)<\/li>\n<li>On the Set of &#8216;Three Kings&#8217; with Production Designer Catherine Hardwicke (10:15)<\/li>\n<li>The Cinematography of &#8216;Three Kings:&#8217; An Interview with Director of Photography Newton Thomas Sigel (7:06)<\/li>\n<li>Director David O. Russell&#8217;s &#8216;Three Kings&#8217; Video Journal (13:37)<\/li>\n<li>An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube (2:21)<\/li>\n<li>Deleted Scenes (6:37)<\/li>\n<li>Trailer (2:10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; Buy it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003V1YHF4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003V1YHF4\">Blu-ray<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00004W4FX?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B00004W4FX\">DVD<\/a> from Amazon UK<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120188\/\">Three Kings<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set during Operation Desert Storm this brilliant 1999 drama  is the story of four US soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze) who loot $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1640],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}