John F. Kerry

im tired of posting my movie epiphanies in that big old thread because no one ever responds to em. so im gonna put a few of my recent favs in threads.

so when i was watching W. thinking about how its one of my fav movies i did a search on imdb.com and found out that oliver stone made another movie just like this for nixon about 20 years ago...

the actor doesnt look as much like nixon, but otherwise its like the exact same type of bio documentary as W was for bush.

so if u enjoyed the one def check out nixon ill bet youll like it and learn something to.


ps also see all the presidents men if u never have.

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John F. Kerry

never saw jfk but i will now.

hell yea i actually think w is like one of my favorite movies i dunno why, the scenes with cheney are pretty over the top but otherwise its just so damn funny and hard to stop watching its hard to describe.

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Roach

having experienced nixon as president was enough.


Does the film display him as a psyco "Hitler" type ... ?









if not then it wasn't accurate.

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Purd Hupley

When Stone is a genius, his stuff is brilliant. Platoon and JFK both rocked. The Donald Sutherland sequence in JFK, while historically a bunch of horseshit, is classic...like a symphony building to a crescendo.

I liked W. I know it was supposed to be a hit piece, but it actually made me like GWB a bit more.

Nixon was everything about Stone's filmmaking that I hate. He has a tendency to be really heavy handed in his camera techniques. Like in Citizen Kane, how the camera angle on Charles Foster Kane is subtly shooting up at him when he's in power, then subtly shifts to shooting down at him as he falls from power. Stone's techniques are so overdone that way. There's no subtlety at all. Same with shadowing. When the story is fascinating and the acting is stellar (JFK, Platoon), it can be overlooked. But the story in Nixon was so over dramatized and the acting was so poor, the heavy handed filming made it pretty much unwatchable. Which is sad, really, because he touched on the love/ hate relationship between Nixon and JFK, which is a story that has never really been told.

Kind of the same with the Doors, which I really wanted to like. But he made Morrison out to be such a mystic, such a shaman. When in reality Morrison was a super smart, super talented writer who was also a super abusive drunkard...as really talented writers sometime are. He was less shaman than he was Poe or Hemingway. Deeply damaged, deeply flawed. Those flaws came out in his art. Which to me would've been a more fascinating story.

On the other hand, I'm watching Streetcar Named Desire. Great film and really cutting edge content for it's time. A definite must see.