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Three Kings, which Cinetrix -- don't call her Trixie -- persuasively argues is the first hip-hop war movie, has run into trouble with it's re-release on DVD. The re-release was to commemorate something or possibly just to piss people off by reminding them that, hey!, we've been here before people.

As part of this re-release the director, David O. Russell, wanted to add a documentary called Soldiers' Pay to the extras so that those DVD buyers who had the original weren't just getting a new box (and I expect to highlight the fact that the issues in Iraq did not go away and let others know that, hey!, we've been here before people). Warner Bros. decided that the did "not think it's appropriate to attach this polemic to an entertainment piece. We don't think it's appropriate to marry these two things". Possibly proving that no-one at Warners had actually watched Three Kings, or that those who had just didn't get it or the movie's audience.

Anyway, the documentary is going to get released separately now.

Greg.org have an excellent timeline of the whole debacle.

Sometime before Aug. 26:
Warner Bros. executives see the film. Turns out it's "political," which is something they never expected from an Iraq War film coming out weeks before an election.