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I agree on the '4th of July'............

Posted by RedGrant on July 26, 2011 at 18:47:09:
That was about the only Stone movie I could watch repeatedly. Actually, I was a bit surprised at the emotional honesty shown in the movie.

Remember the scene when the mom no longer is proud of her son, when he came home. Remember the scene at the pool room, where Tom Cruise was ranting about his plight, one of the redneck type gave him the cold shoulder and told him to exemplify as a marine.

"I'm not saying that all projects must be ego driven but it is a very important component of the artistic/creative process...yes Stone is personally caught up in his projects, how could a Vietnam Veteran make a film like 'Born On The Fourth Of July' and not invest himself totally within it?

He has lived a large part of the modern American Experience, been scarred, uplifted and informed by it so why would that not be part of his art?"

I agree, my problem is when Stone doesn't show his artist side as seriously as '4th of July' in his other movies, instead he behaves similarly as Michael Moore and Lady Gaga types.

"BTW, anyone calling BOT4thOJ an ego trip or ego driven has questionable critical and observational abilities IMO."

I agree, and I think you missed what I had said about '4th of July' earlier.