Oliver Stone hates the Internet

Oliver Stone hates the Internet

I've seemed to find another person to hate today. This time it is pretty good filmmaker Oliver Stone. Make sure to head over to Guanabee and check out the video of Stone's ramblings. First off, I love many of Oliver Stone's movies. While completely untrue, JFK is probably one of his best directed movies to date. Nixon has grown on me, and it has become a better movie. W and Alexander weren’t his finest hours though. I think he rushed W out there in order to make a statement, but the film suffered for it and seemed rushed.

Mr. Stone was paid around 75,000 for his appearance at a speaking engagement in the New Museum in Manhattan.

From Guanabee,

((Winston Churchill did make some kind of sense when he said the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Let’s not kid ourselves. A mashup is not a movie. It’s offensive.))

Wow, that’s pretty bitter there, Oliver. Mashup videos are never movies. They’re just songs and scenes combined together with in clever way. It’s not offensive.

((You can watch movies on little screens all the time. You can watch three minutes of a movie, seven minutes of a movie. You can call that watching a movie. That’s not the way I grew up. That’s not the way I like movies that are narratives with content.))

You’re argument doesn’t make much sense here. Those are merely clips, mostly for promotional stuff.

((You cannot have your neighbor come over and jump in the pool and have a party and call that a movie. Some kids come over and one of them strangles the other and they call that a fucking movie. It’s a joke. It’s jerking off in front of the camera and that’s what most people are doing and I’m sick of it.))

Jerking off in front on the camera? Really, that’s what you call it? There is a huge difference between Internet videos and films. Films are long form and do take talent to piece together, and Internet videos are flashes in the pan.

It is this elitist way of thinking that most people are sick of. Only people like him feel they’re the only ones qualified to make movies. (That doesn’t explain Ratner or Boll.) I personally think he feels really bitter about being left out of the digital age. A drunk woman falling through a table is nothing more than a drunk girl falling through a table.

Chill out, Oliver. Just claim down.