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Originally Posted by Frownland
You touched on one of the reasons why I think Oliver Stone is a terrible director: he presents himself as a lighter form of documentarian despite his films being full of overdramatization and pathos. Those tactics helped him dump gasoline on the fire that is the JFK conspiracy umbrella, with half truths put in the film for the sake of suspense being viewed as hard evidence by the public (I've seen people passionate defend facts that originated from the film, like the part where they go to the book depository to test out whether or not someone could fire six shots in that amount of time; for one they absolutely can and two that test never happened).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is good for a pretty boy actor though.
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I find him more uneven than terrible. Platoon, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, W. and The Doors were all good movies to me. I really hated 4th of July, Nixon and Alexander. The other few I've seen were just middling.