Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on November 01, 2008 at 09:53:53

In Reply to: RE: W. - a strange biopic posted by tunenut on October 27, 2008 at 11:06:08

I didn't find it compelling or well done. I found it disjointed and pretentious. Oliver Stone relies wacky imagry and cliche close ups of brooding actors in place of good old fashion cinematic narative. This one had all the problems of his last presidential flick, Nixon. Oliver Stone IMO needs to leave the art movies to artists. He should go back to doing what he did best. Tell tall tales. JFK was IMO a terrific movie. It drew me in and sold me in the moment on an amazing amalgamation of every conspiracy theory no matter how far fetched that surrounded the assasination of JFK. That is movie making. IMO, like Nixon, W. was a waste of excellent acting on a film that was in desperate need of direction.