Word: stoning
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...films should be, a website like Loose Change creeps in, with its "evidence" of America's complicity in the WTC attacks. I'm not looking for Hollywood to take a conspiratorial view of 9/11. But if a filmmaker were to try, you'd think it would be Stone, whose 1991 JFK argued that virtually everyone killed Jack Kennedy. Instead, he makes an apolitical weepie that could as easily be about any tense rescue, of a mother in a burning building or a kitten down a well...
Directed by Oliver Stone...
...After over a decade of unremarkable films, Oliver Stone has finally returned to his old stomping grounds—romanticized historical tragedy—and made a powerful movie that portrays pain and suffering in his usual forceful style...
...Instead, Stone and first-time screenwriter Andrea Berloff’s efforts to humanize 9/11 are tainted by a sense of crass opportunism, which Paul Greengrass was able to avoid in this year’s “United...
...their defense, the still-recent proximity to 9/11 largely neuters Stone and Berloff’s ability to use the event to make a statement like the one Stone made in “Platoon,” lest they appear disrespectful. This is a film that opens its mouth to speak, but instead of words, all that comes out is a soul-piercing, over-rehearsed scream...