Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone is a DISGRACE to the word Democracy. He lives in a land where he can live the benefits of "Freedom of Speech", but boasts the Dictator Hugo Chavez as a Hero. If Oliver Stone was a Venezuela living in Venezuela, trying to critique the government or anyone of his officials like he does with the movie "W" and many other movies, he'd be sitting in a Venezuela prison just like many of the local Venezuelan press. Oliver Stone couldn't handle the pressures that the Venezuelan press has to deal with everyday! How many people of the Venezuelan press has had to run into exile in other countries??? Chavez has been shutting down TV Stations over the years, and now has just closed over SIXTY radio stations that he believes speaks against his ideology! Thousands are losing their lifestyle, which is the same one Oliver Stone has made $MILLIONS from. Oliver Stone can do it, because he is an American, or a "Pitty-Yankee" as Chavez calls them, but the Venezuelan DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT ... Read more

Great filmaker whose best is probably behind him. His films piss people off, but that adds to his unique essence as a director. Flawed directing style, but again it adds to his essence. He just wouldn't be Oliver Stone if his work didn't have his trademark flaws.

Oliver Stone movies certainly have a distinctive style due to his direction (which earns him at least a bonus star), but his tendency to play loose with the facts (even making allowances for Hollywood) hurts him in my review. Both "Platoon" (1986) and "Wall Street" (1987) were his best in my opinion, but subsequent efforts started to meander to the extremes (e.g. "JFK" (1991), "Natural Born Killers" (1994), "Nixon" (1995), and "Alexander" (2004)). I have to concur with the prior reviewer who noted that Stone has the ability to often capture the visuals of a period but fails to capture the mindset and tone of those times (i.e. imposing contemporary morality on past situations). William Oliver Stone was born September 15, 1946 in New York City.

Deliberately confrontational and occasionally entertaining. JFK for example was completely fictious and kind of silly but still highly watchable. One of a handful of directors who can sell tickets based on his name on the marquee. I'll go to see his films even if they are getting bad reviews, just to see what he is up to.

His movies are boring and slow for the most part has not done any thing good in years.

The film Alexander is the reason why he earns a 1 star rating from me.

Some really good work, and some silly stuff like 'Alexander'- not bad a director really-

Much more adept at writing than at directing. Most of his pictures look like they were directed by a five year old, and that's being generous.

Natural Born Killers is one of the best movies ever created. If you didn't like it, you didn't get. Stone is simply the Best director there is. He's had a few miscues, who hasn't. But no one makes movies so consistently powerful as he does.

He makes powerful movies and he is skilled in his art. And yes, Jimmie, you need to say a hell of a lot more than just spouting about his politics. Reminder: You are rating a director here, not a politician. Your comment does not reference his abilities as a director at all, but given your repeated comments on anything related to Pepsi, that is no surprise.

He's just one more alcoholic, drug addict Hollywood celebrity with a leftist political agenda. Need I say more?

I'd like to see him get away from directing the current glamour boy of the week. At least for a couple of films. No disrespect to Kevin Costner, Charlie Sheen,Tom Cruise, et al. I'd like to see him direct something different; for him. But I loved the performances he got from Willem Dafoe,(Platoon), and James Woods, (Salvador), who are not hunks. And Tom Berenger, who is, and was. I'm hoping he rebounds, big time, from the disastrous Alexander! I love his writing, as well!

He's OK. Made some good movies - Platoon, Born on the Fouth of July, Talk Radio and some that have been more hype than substance. Cant be guarenteed he'll produce a good movie and that's just not good.

I cannot believe these ratings. I am not American, and there are o alot of things that disturb me about McDonalds USA. However, there are geniuses unique only to America and these people make America great, not the army, the economy or whatever. People like Jimi Hendrix, De Niro, and you get the picture.Oliver Stone is definitely in this category. It's these people that stop America from being the laughing stock of Europe or Asia in terms of arts or entertaining. Why in Gods name would you rate 1 of your national treasures like that is beyond my understanding. This guy is simply breathtaking, he sometimes is not that convincing, but nobody's perfect. 5 stars minimum!

If he wasn't driven by a political agenda he could be a good director.

Erratic. Has good moments but can't complete a film, in that he puts together a bunch of scenes and hopes it works. It usually doesn't.

"Platoon" has been hist best effort. "Wall Street" was an unbelievable cartoonish trifle. "The Doors" was garbage and "JFK" was the most ridiculous piece of crap ever conceived by a so-called "major" director. "Born on the Fourth of July" was better than I expected, but still nothing great. The great misapprehension about this guy is the genuine, atmospheric feel for the time periods he evokes, when the actuality is that he gets the visual style but misses the ethos and emotional temper of his time periods. So, even his great strength as a director is flawed. His re-writing of history is a sad joke that will always consign him to the second rate category.

Just awful

An occasionally brilliant but more often erratic filmmaker, he has helmed some greats but many mediocres. Platoon, Wall Street, Salvador, and JFK are his best. With Any Given Sunday, U turn, and Natural Born Killers he uses distracting camera work and blatent sound which do not add to the movie...

I give Oliver Stone a lot of credit, both for his movies ("Platoon," "Wall Street," "The Doors," "JFK," etc.) and for the fact that he's willing to make fun of himself (remember that cameo in the Kevin Kline movie "Dave," where they cut to a news clip of Stone theorizing that there was a conspiracy to replace the President with a body double?).