True.

You’re on a pop culture website and discussion/analysis of movies is part of what we do here. “It’s just a movie” shows you’re really not interested in these discussions.

Obviously there aren’t a lot of female characters in Platoon, but 4th of July has Kyra Sedgewick, not to mention Caroline Kava as Kovic’s mom, making a strong impression. Sissy Spacek and Laurie Metcalf in JFK are also essential to that movie working. Joan Allen as Pat Nixon in Nixon (which is in Stone’s top tier),…

Nope. Stone, as a public figure, needs to handle his words better even if there is a microphone shoved in his face. It’s clearly not the first time that he’s been asked off-the-cuff questions.

Oliver Stone is probably “glued” to NYT, where this story ran.

The scene in NBK where Mickey assaults the tied-up hostage always played as extremely disturbing - not just for the content of the scene, but because it felt like titillation - but now it’s even worse. Stone probably never had a second thought or hesitation about that sequence.

You’re right, maybe he’s not saying stupid things to get a rise out of people. Maybe he’s just legitimately that dumb. It’s okay, lots of dumb people in the world.

What you’re saying is ignorant and badly reasoned.

And you “understand what real power is?”

You’re a troll.

That bothered me as well.

Boy is that a bad movie. Yikes.

Sadly there are always avenues in a less “respectable” industry like porn for a predator like Deen to find a perch. Glad to hear that there are several studios that won’t hire him anymore.

I think she looks 15-16 in that photo. As if there’s a need for this to be even creepier.

Are we so sure Beckinsale or other actresses actually “accepted” at any point? Seems an awful big assumption.

Calling her Ava Gardner in The Aviator “girlfriend” is reductive and not all that accurate.

You’re right that she doesn’t have a lot of great titles, but there’s The Aviator and Snow Angels at least. Also wasn’t Love and Friendship highly-praised?

That’s an attempt at an apology/damage control, but Danette is right that Stone very easily could’ve avoided this whole thing if he put an ounce of forethought into it. It’s clear that systematic sexual misconduct is not something that bothers him too much.

Yea he looks bad.

I can’t agree. For someone who is clearly a sexist (at the very least), I’ve found the female characters in his best work to be very memorable characters.