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Entries Tagged as 'Oliver Stone'

Conan the Barbarian (1982, John Milius)

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

John Milius takes Conan the Barbarian very seriously. The occasional use of slow motion and the endlessness of Basil Poledouris’s cheesy score signal Milius’s dedication. So do the long and frequent sequences of shirtless Arnold Schwarzenegger playing with big swords. At the beginning of the film, when it’s the prologue and Milius strange approach actually […]

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Tagged: James Earl Jones· John Milius· Max von Sydow· Oliver Stone· Robert E. Howard· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

8 Million Ways to Die (1986, Hal Ashby)

May 10th, 2007 · No Comments

About halfway through 8 Million Ways to Die, I realized–thanks to a boom mike–my twenty year-old laserdisc was open matte, not pan and scan. The widescreen zoomed suddenly made the shots tighter and crisper, regaining Ashby’s usually calmness. I suppose I should have stopped and went back to the beginning to see if it made […]

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Tagged: Andy Garcia· David Lee Henry· Hal Ashby· Jeff Bridges· Lawrence Block· Oliver Stone· Tri-Star Pictures· ★★★

Born on the Fourth of July (1989, Oliver Stone)

May 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment

In the last ten years, Tom Cruise has turned in a number of excellent performances (well, four… four is a number) and a bunch of decent ones. He’s only been bad once (of the films I’ve seen). So, Born on the Fourth of July was a jarring reminder to the early period of Cruise’s acting […]

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Tagged: Frank Whaley· Oliver Stone· Raymond J. Barry· Ron Kovic· Tom Cruise· Universal Pictures· Willem Dafoe· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

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