Winter is a rough time for animals. Not all will make it through. Buffalo in Yellowstone are no exception. These buffalo are in danger not only of cold and starvation but also of heat. The buffalo sometimes get too close to the geo-thermal activity which can also kill.
141 Thoughts to “Open Thread…………………………………Sunday, January 12”
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“What has he [Oliver Stone] not hammered us over the head with? ”
“Any Given Sunday”, the football movie with Jamie Foxx and Al Pacino, was not especially pointed and a lot of fun. I think that’s a great movie.
“Wall Street” is actually a balanced and nuanced movie more or less. (Not so for the sequel though).
“W” was a funny and well-made movie. I wouldn’t call it heavy-handed.
I saw his documentary “South of the Border” where he talks to Chavez and other South American leaders. It was actually quite thoughtful. It was not attempting to define these men and countries/governments, but merely to provide additional information to the biased picture that our media forces upon us.
So while I agree that he is frequently heavy-handed, to the point of inducing a migraine in the viewer, he’s capable of making exciting films that don’t preach or fit into some intellectual agenda.
I have seen W, not the others. I felt he made his opinion known although not quite as loudly as he often does.
I think he was loudest in Born on the 4th of July.
Oliver Stone is, quite rightly, defined to the public in part by his heavy-handedness, willingness to present invented history as if it were real (which “Wolf” does a bit of), and comfort level with socialism.
To those who study film, he’s also characterized by : the vibrancy and energy level of his movies (where “Wolf” shows a big influence, in addition to its belonging to this genre defined by Stone’s “Wall Street”), his ability to stylize violence effectively (when I watched “Schindler’s List” I noticed Stone’s influence – there’s such a thing as an “Oliver Stone scene”, bullets runing loudly speaker to speaker), and a real skill at screen writing that enables him to reach high and to frequently make projects that are overly ambitious and hard to like.
His films frequently disappoint me, but he is one of the guys in the world capable of making a really big, great, original movie. “Wolf” plays like one of his movies. And a darned good one.
I think I would hate Wolf.
Clint Eastwood did a little Oliver Stoning in his films also.
You must be thinking of that J. Edgar Hoover film! Yeah that was like one of Stone’s imaginary history projects. I haven’t watched “JFK” in about 20 years; I liked it at the time. “Nixon” offended me in the fact that it was so clearly made up – didn’t correlate to all the observable reality we do have to draw from, including all those hours of tapes. “W” I found amusing and it actually seemed pretty close to what must be true.