lee_loni | Great CINEMATICAL.com Review of Gen!Kill (Reply)

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The Best Film of the Year is on HBO

by Eugene Novikov Aug 23rd 2008 // 4:32PM

EXCERPT:

Sometimes cinemaniacs get rewarded for stepping outside the theater. Scott Weinberg, his tongue possibly in cheek, thinks a viral 4-minute internet video is the best movie of the year. I am convinced that the year's best fiction-on-film (so far -- though I have trouble imagining anything topping it) is currently airing on HBO. That would be Generation Kill, the seven-part, eight-hour Iraq War miniseries from David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire).

I know, I know: this is Cinematical, not TV Squad. But Generation Kill is something no movie lover should ignore.

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I don't get THIS reply though (from random poster):

"It's entertaining but we should never forget that in the end it's fiction. Yeah, I read the book the miniseries is based on and like the tv miniseries it's just one man's entertaining take on events.

It's fun. It's also fake - like all movies. If anything, it does get old after awhile as the types represented in the series, even if based on real humans, feel a little tired. I've enjoyed the series in spurts but overall I find there's nothing locking me to it. There's no real story and as mentioned the characters just aren't that absorbing. So while I'll laugh for 20 minutes, 40 minutes into an episode I find there's nothing emotionally or intellectually tethering me to the events of the episode."

They think it's fiction? Wow.

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