Oliver’s contempt: Blaming Americans for his bad fil

Manchester Union Leader ^ | January 9, 2005 | Editorial

[Caipirabob]

And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality.

WTF?!? I haven't even taken two sips of my coffee and the first thing I see is some pathetic producer blame his failure on the fact that Americans are generally good and decent people.

"YOU TELL 'EM, OLLIE!"

[evad]

Americans just don't have the cultural breeding to appreciate another piece of Stone revisionalism.

Perhaps someday we will mature to the level of Europe but, alas, not this day ;-)

PS: good riddance to bad trash.

[ThirstyMan]

...And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality,”

We call it righteousness. God's righteousness. Don't care for it? Well that puts you on the other side then doesn't it?

[drt1]

"And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality"

So what's the problem. Would he rather have it "Raging relativism and immorality" - Answer: YES.

[ovrtaxt]

If he would just resort to making good movies instead of preaching his BS, he might actually earn a paycheck.

[KateatRFM]

Americans who DO read ancient history would never bother with an Oliver Stone movie. We'd rather watch Ben-Hur.

[ovrtaxt]

Or a Mel Gibson flick...

[Utmost Certainty]

Or maybe the film sucked?

[tkathy]

We recognize intellectual dishonesty when we see it.

[BlessedBeGod]

Whiner.

[wunderkind54]

Another self-appointed cultural and moral arbiter whining that his efforts are misunderstood by the "great unwashed".

Too bad....so sad...

Put together something without a lot of leftist preaching and maybe we'll be interested...but until then......

[hershey]

Isn't it interesting that people like Stone use this country for everything they can get, yet don't miss a chance at biting the hand that feeds them. We can hope that he flounces off to Europe in a huff, to live and work there permanently, but that's probably a pipe dream.

[seppel]

"because we didn’t want to see Alexander the Great as a bisexual. "

We don't want to see anybody as a bisexual, and even here in Europe many don't fancy that lifestyle.

[kitkat]

**** And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality.****

I'm throwing myself down on my knees and begging God not to smite all of us for being "moral."

[x1stcav]

An alternative explanation is that many people, like me, simply won't view anything produced or directed by Stoned.

[Sabatier]

"Troy" is out in video stores now, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (he directed the WWII submarine thriller Das Boot). "Troy" is set in ancient Greece and did fine at the box office because it moves right along in classic action movie style. The fight scenes are awesome.
Mr. Stone's excuses for the failure of "Alexander" sound hollow.

[Salman]

Mark Steyn reviews it in The Spectator

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Smaller than life

[pabianice]

"Flight of the Phoenix" remake crashes and burns

[yoe]

Stone, who has built a career out of making films that express unveiled contempt for his own countrymen, is an artist permanently detached from reality...

I think that say it rather well...