'Conviction (1)'
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Why is he such an acclaimed filmmaker, then?
Talk Radio is a really good movie. He had a string of pretty solid movies that sold well to mainstream America. Like most directors, his personal weirdosities and axes to grind got the better of his output at some point.
Salvador, with James Woods, is also pretty good early Stone.
I am currently watching 300 (finally). This is really just about the most ridiculous movie ever. I'm so over both Frank Miller (happened kind of a while ago) and Zach Snyder (only took one half of one of his movies).
Also over movies that are frame by frame recreations of specific graphic novels.
That's true, I did like that one. And some people, I would guess, like big sweeping gestures and really obvious Good And Evil.
Okay, looking at Snyder's IMDB page, I did kind of like Dawn of the Dead, but I swear I'm also over able-to-finish-a-project being the only necessary qualification for directors.
For me, Platoon was like being hit over the head with anvil of Good! and Evil! repeatedly.
I don't know if Platoon was the first use of it, but I'm over Adagio for Strings. I seem to be over things today.
Stone is hardly a universally acclaimed director. He's had his detractors from pretty early on in his career.
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Oh my dog 300 is just the most ridiculous movie ever. I'm getting very depressed that the most we seem to demand from any kind of entertainment these days is SHINY!
We have become a nation of cats.
Off to see trek again... Yay!
Oh my dog 300 is just the most ridiculous movie ever. I'm getting very depressed that the most we seem to demand from any kind of entertainment these days is SHINY!
It's surprisingly BORING, too. I was very disappointed.
Off to see trek again... Yay!
I'm seeing it tomorrow!
Stone is hardly a universally acclaimed director. He's had his detractors from pretty early on in his career.
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Heeeee. "Welcome to the distortion of reality that is Oliver Stone Land!"
I think my favorite Oliver Stone movie moment was actually not in an Oliver Stone movie, but was in Dave, when Stone shows up on Larry King to put forth the wacky theory that the president isn't really the president. Since it's Stone saying this, King laughs it off as just another one of Oliver's crazy thoughts, when in actuality, he's the only one who has it right!