Naughty Oliver Stone

[odinn7]

Seems he was a bad boy...again.

Oliver Stone

[Chopper]

that's my boy!!

[Eirik]

Phew, You had me scared for a minute.  I thought he was making another movie.

[Neville]

Drug suspicion? Drug certainity, Id say. Those cops haven't seen any of his movies, they can't have been created by a healty, sober mind, I'm sure.

[peter johnson]

Oliver Stone directed "The Hand", with Michael Caine, possibly the best crawling-hand movie ever --
This drug thing has to be part of a conspiracy to silence him and prevent his finally coming out with a sequel to "The Hand", which would, of course, blow every other so-called "horror" film out of the water & destroy Hollywood single-handedly.
It was Bush . . . It was the CIA . . . It was the reptoid-aliens in league with The Illuminati . . .  Oliver knows who's behind it all, so when he finally speaks to the topic, pay attention and believe what he says.  He knows . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

[Yaddo 42]

This explains most of his films of the past decade or so. Maybe it was research for a sequel to "Any Given Sunday". Maybe he thinks he's still living in the world of the "Wild Palms" TV miniseries. Maybe the truth about "Alexander" finally hit home. Come back to us Oliver, you were always kind of an intense nutcase, but at least some of your movies were worth a damn once upon a time.

And I still want a refund for "U-Turn"!

[Neville]

Are you kiding? "U-Turn" rocks! A completely over the top noir with all the right touches of weirdness and nastyness. I would ask for a refund in the cases of "Any given Sunday" or "Heaven and Earth", but I'll be kind and allow him to use the money for the bail or to buy more drugs.

[Yaddo 42]

"Any Given Sunday" had it's moments, but over all I didn't like it either. I think the overuse of stock footage of lightning during EVERY conflict and that weird iintercutting of the chariot race from "Ben-Hur" during that argument between Jaime Foxx and Al Pacino just soured me on the film. I relaized what he was trying to do, I just thought he overdid it like he does a lot in his films. Plus casting Lawrence Taylor as a brutal aging coked-up out of control football player? Why not just make a documentary about ole LT?

I wanted to like "U-Turn", the ads looked up my alley, the talented big name cast was certainly a draw, and I was expecting a gritty amped up pulp novel style crime movie. But once I saw it, I just found myself getting more and more iritated with the film as it went along. The only part I really liked and am fond of even now is the "Patsy Cline" conversation between Sean Penn and Clare Danes in the diner. The rest of it felt like everyone was trying WAY too hard to eat as much scenery as possible (especially Nick Nolte). Seeing that film, the only thing I wonder was just how much coke Stone used while making it.  

I got that it was supposed to be a kind of nightmarish modern noir, I guess I just like them a little more subtle like "The Last Temptation", "Red Rock West" or "After Dark, My Sweet".