JFK was a great film

JFK was a great film. It was Oliver Stone at his best. I remember watching it once at three in the morning, in a dark empty apartment, and about half way through it I began to feel very worried about all my previous "political" activity. Paranoia set in big time. As I sat there, the apartment walls seemed to suddenly close in on me, and the temperature of the room felt colder. I began to ponder things like how long it might take someone to realize I was gone if I was ever to be gone suddenly.

Now that's a film!

JFK was creepy, thought provoking, and it really played to all of Oliver Stone's cinematic gifts. Nixon was also good, and one of the overlooked gems in Stone's filmography. I'm just putting that out there for anyone who hasn't seen it.

I just watched W, which is Oliver Stone's most recent film, and while it's been a long time since I really liked anything he's done, this film seemed promising on paper. Top notch subject matter, top notch actors, and a writer/director who has shown the ability to do something special with those kinds of ingredients before. Unfortunately, I have to recommend that you don't waste your time on W. W is a TV movie at best, but with a big budget cast, and a big budget look. Oliver Stone tries to be way too subtle for most of W, and subtlety has never been a strength of Oliver Stone's writing or direction. There is a lot of stuff he just left out and that's not subtlety, and it's not the Olver Stone we've come to know and appreciate over the years. For that reason, it's actually distracting, and not just an annoyance.

People from Stone's generation had Nixon, but for future generations, their Nixon will be George W Bush. That is important to note, and I'm not sure that Stone and his crew were capable of seeing that the way most of us do now.



-Jay Unidos