That tool of a filmmaker who shold have retired after Platoon Oliver Stone is making a film (titled W) about the rise of George W. Bush from drunken frat boy moron douchebag to the biggest tool of a US President ever? Is it so?
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The film's title is two letters too short. Missing are a "T" and an "F".
imipolex:
Ha! Stone should have been placed into forced retirement after *The Doors*. Manzarek himself couldn't have made a worse film. Agree?
I only wonder if it'll start with a scene of Barb being raped by a chimpanzee.
Spiros:
Bad film? Agree. Forced retirement? I don't know. I do like watching the cars pile up in this ongoing trainwreck. (From afar, of course, I don't actually watch Stone movies anymore.) I kinda want to find out what will be next. "OBL" (for bin Laden)?
Cuuld this film be any more of a train wreck than Stone's Nixon was? Part of me hopes that "W" is a dark comedy since they cast Richard Dreyfus as Dick Cheney although I don't know if Stone can make a dark comedy successfully.
The Doors was just a campy film, especially with Kyle MacLachlan cast as Manzarek. Alexander was unwatchable, the only movie I stopped after 10 minutes of watching besides Cimino's "Heaven's Gate". Maybe this will be a return to form for Stone.
"Cuuld this film be any more of a train wreck than Stone's Nixon was? "
Yes. At least Stone's Tricky Dick looked and sounded like Hannibal Lecter.
I can't remember the last Stone film I saw. I saw him give a lecture years ago titled "Making Movies That Matter," which led me to the conclusion that he was no longer capable of making goof films.
I actually liked "Alexander," because of the plethora of attractive young men in the cast and its many moments of unintentional hilarity.
Some would say that if you're going for unintentional hilarity, you can't go wrong with W. as material, but Stone won't be taking that angle--he'll probably go for this sober look into the life of this former frat boy and draft dodger and spend 3-4 hours trying to make STATEMENTS. I certainly don't see much camp potential there (nor would I want to).
Mary:
Hi! I had just been wondering about you, and was beginning to worry that you had found something better to do than hang with us geeks. Rock on.
g-unit: True. But I keep hoping that this movie will be filmed in kind of a dramedy manner. I remember reading the first 10 pages or so of the script that was leaked on line briefly some months back and it seemed as though it could be played for laughs.
Mary: Not even the casting of Angelina Jolie could lure me to watch Alexander. Once they had Colin Farrel cast as Alexander, I knew it was going to be too rough a ride for my taste.
Watch to completion I meant to type.
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