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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> It's not the tradition that I was being
overly
> snotty about, I've got no
> problem with it, even enjoy it, but the
heavyhanded
> symbolism Stone so
> often employs. And I'll even allow that
I'm
> probably responding more to
> this aspect in his later films and
retroactively
> applying it to Platoon
> which, along with Salvador, is one of his few
films
> I've seen that I did
> not actively dislike. I always feel he's hitting
me
> over the head and
> trying to manipulate me, two of the worst
artistic
> crimes in my book,
> along with pretension.
****************************************************** I have
to say I hated THE DOORS & NATURAL BORN KILLERS. I was
disposed to like both of them but came away thinking they
were just awful. I very much enjoyed NIXON, despite the total
miscasting of Anthony Hopkins. He gave an excellent
performance nonetheless. And I thought JFK was something that
needed to be said, and was well-said. That assassination is
still the elephant in the room of American politics.
ALEXANDER, though, was totally over the top and for the most
part miscast as well. It seems like Stone is too prolific for
his own good. Every other film is pretty good, and
occasionally he hits a home run. But when they stink you have
to wonder how he can wander so far afield. I'm kind of
looking forward to his remake of THE FOUNTAINHEAD. Cooper was
so good as Roark in the original, it's a dangerous decision
to take it on. Like trying to remake CASABLANCA. The casting
of Roark is the most important part of making the film and I
just pray he doesn't use Sean Penn. Roark is a stoic. Penn is
known for his ability to emote. There are not to many stoic
actors out there right now. He better cast carefully.
Patrick King
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