Just speaking for myself, I don’t mind them doing what they want with their movies, although I see your point about propoganda. For example, I like both JFK and China Syndrome as films, although I don’t accept their premises one iota. In fact I can view both as rather evil propoganda but I enjoy the films.
I think Beautiful Mind was a very good film (also inaccurate in many respects) maybe even a great one, I fell in love w Jennifer Connelly, but I don’t value her political views or R Howard’s.
“For example, I like both JFK and China Syndrome as films, although I don’t accept their premises one iota. In fact I can view both as rather evil propoganda but I enjoy the films.”
I can understand your point about “The China Syndrome.” But “JFK,” in my opinion, was too ridiculous to love. The ostensible plot of the film, Garrison’s struggle for truth and justice, was so subsumed by the case itself that it might as well not have existed. We were left with Stone’s one thousand and one theories, and without years of conspiracy buffs poisoning the public’s mind no audience would ever have sat through them.
For me, at least, the entire movie played like a sophomoric polemic, even less reliable than a Michael Moore movie. The point being, if Stone was the filmmaker he’s made out to be, he’d have wooed us with manipulative stories and characters, keeping the nutty to a minimum. Imagine “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” with a few clips of the Zapruder film mixed in.