Siskel & Ebert Review The Films of... Oliver Stone
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2024
- Since Stone was an Oscar-winning screenwriter before he was an established director, I've included everything he's at least co-written here as well
Primarily for educational purposes, but enjoy however you see fit!
For more of this series:
• Siskel & Ebert Review ... - Фільми й анімація
Stone is a shaker of american souls. Natural born killers was extremely shocking first time I watched, just at my 16 years old. The rampage visuals and aesthetics and the way USA turns the horrible things, the murder, the murderers, as superstars and the last trending...that was a like a gunshot.
The first half hour or so, with films that critics were at times lukewarm about makes sense. Platoon was one of Stone’s first completed scripts, and the films he wrote ahead of it were to build up his resume to get his passion project made. A similar thing happened with Born on the Fourth of July, which Stone started working on in the mid-70s. For the first 15 years of his career, getting those 2 films made was his main goal. You can always tell which movies he’s really invested in.
I have to say that I LOVE some of the greatest films by Oliver Stone like, "JFK," "Born on the Fourth of July," "Platoon," "Wall Street" and "Salvador." They made me think about the world in a more clear way and I remain very impressed with Stone's vision in his films as well. 😄👍
This is a truly great series, thanks 👍
Thanks vanilla sky et for putting these up. These guys were very interesting. It's soothing to watch them. The movie reviews are interesting regardless if it's a good movie or bad movie.
I watched Platoon this morning and went to watch the version of this you had previously uploaded only to feel like I had hallucinated its existence lol
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Absolutely insane discussion of The Doors at around 48 minutes. May be one of their best.
It really is, and with it, perfectly covering all aspects of the movie that make The Doors my favorite rock biopic, while also resonating with Ebert's concern. But I've never seen them quite argue like this, where they are agreeing and Siskel is so light hearted during it haha. I wonder if Roger ever watched it again. Seems to me if he could detach a bit after the original watch, he'd enjoy it a lot more
This is a nice neutral thing to listen to. This harkens back to an innocent time. Nice to listen about a debate that doesn't really matter but is interesting and fascinating. None of today's craziness. Interesting and innocent.
Scarface is one of my favorite movies! It teaches you a lot
Teaches you what? a good "B" movie that's fun as hell,but over the top horseshit.
@@andrewgalioto2825 it teaches you about the mindset and art of drug dealing
thanks. it was cool to revisit these movies collected through this lens.
I love the different versions of t he same movie review....like 4th of July.
Great to hear praise for the doors, nbk & Nixon, my top 3 from Stone & they seem to get panned pretty often.
JFK was his very best, IMHO. Better than Silence of the Lambs that year. Jones should have won that year over Palance.
THE HAND was a remake of "CURSE OF FIVE FINGERS" With Peter Lorrre...excellent!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Gene was WAY off on Salvador...
Oliver Stone is my fav filmmaker. Yo, I wanted to punch Siskel & Ebert for bashing The Hand haha
I think Wall Street is Stone's most overrated picture. Michael Douglas was extraordinary as Gordon Gecko but Charlie Sheen was miscast and the film is very much cut and dry. I also disliked the fact that Sheen had to chose between father figures, that's such a cornball, Hollywood dilemma.
Stone is just like Depalma,a talented hack.he can shoot& edit film for great effect,but films like JFK,with the angelic glow around Costner's head in the courtroom scenes is just proof of Stone's hackneyed myopic politics..
@@andrewgalioto2825I think you're right about a lot of his filmmaking in terms of style, but the subject matter & discussions raised are rarely myopic
AL PACINO WAS GREAT IN BAD MOVIE "SCARFACE"
No Mike Nichols anthology?
Eventually!
Stone wrote a lot of drug films back in the day and also Savages..Stone should wrote more drug/political movies