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I like his sense of cinematography but agree with you that he is sophomoric

The epitome of Stone is Natural Born Killers, in which he criticizes the sensationalism of violence in popular culture by...making one of the most sensationalistic, gratuitously violent films in movie history. Thereby becoming a shining example of the trash he thought he was cleverly criticizing. And all his films somehow erode under their own weight in this way.

Still, there are moments in some of his films, such as the desert scene in The Doors, when he manages to visually capture the essence of a subject, time or place. He did it in Born on the Fourth of July, too, with the way he filmed the wheelchair. I could stomach sitting through his films 20 years ago, to enjoy those brief moments. Now I don't have the patience.


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