Since being booed at the Venice Film Festival for "World Trade Center", O"liver" Stoned has relapsed.
Posted on 09/02/2006 2:54:48 PM PDT by melt
Oliver Stone Speaks Out Against Hollywood Movies
12:14 AM, September 2nd 2006 by Andreea P
Director Oliver Stone has launched a candid attack towards Hollywood movies accusing them of “worshipping war” and referred to Bush as a “terrible human being”.
The Venice Film Festival on Friday was used by important directors to severely criticize the Hollywood movie industry, the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, through their movies. While in Europe for his latest movie promotion, Oliver Stone declared himself worried about when, if ever, the "war on terror" would end.
"This is a very messy situation five years on and frankly it’s not over. Many of us are concerned that it could get worse. I think things have gotten very dark. The consequences of 9/11 are worse than the day itself. I have reason to be depressed, especially as a Vietnam veteran, many Vietnam veterans are very depressed about where we are in Iraq", he said.
According to Stone, during the 1990s, the movies about war shaped the violence problem in the US into a “cultural problem”.
“We watched movies that promoted the concept of war, that promoted shock and awe”, he said. “Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down - these movies worshipped the machinery of war and I think America went back to the concept of war too easily”.
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Since being booed at the Venice Film Festival for "World Trade Center", O"liver" Stoned has relapsed.
In his own mind, Oliver Stone is a font of deep, penetrating intelligence ...
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Once a POS, always a POS.
I was trying to figure out why Stone would make a positive movie like "World Trade Center", when it is counter to everything he has ever done.
After his 2000 bomb, "Hollow Man"--- he must need the $$$money$$$.
"...his 2000 bomb, "Hollow Man"..."
Missed that one, too, thankfully, m.
So, IOW, he was lying all the time, and just wanted to cash in some of our hard-earned dollars.
Boycott him for the rest of his natural life.
And hope that it's short.
And more recently he bombed with "Alexander the Great." That movie seemed more interested in Alexander's sex life than in his battles. Apparently Stone was upset to find out that most moviegoers felt otherwise.
Good pick-up! I forgot all about "Alexander the Great". I think even Stone forgot about that one, too.
Oh well, one can dream. ;p
Oliver Stone is Michael Moore Lite--- pound for pound.
Hollow Man was made by Paul Verhoeven.
Yet, I apparently had company in my ignorance. The article quoted Stone as saying, "It's true that after the last movie I did in Los Angeles I felt as empty as the movie," he said, referring to his 2000 film "Hollow Man".
The author of the article was either mistaken--- or Stone was into the sauce?
It's not listed among his credits on imdb. I think the article was wrong. 'Any Given Sunday' was probably the intended title.
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