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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Oliver Stone'
8 Million Ways to Die (1986, Hal Ashby)
May 10th, 2007 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloBorn 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 […]
