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    blue note
    Registered Users Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭blue note


    He wouldn't be my absolute favourite, but the list of great films he has directed or written is long. Wall street is his pinnacle for me. An absolute masterpiece.


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    branie2
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    My favourite of his films is JFK


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    weemcd
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    I watched Platoon recently and it's a stunning piece of work with a thoroughly talented cast.

    For anyone into that sort of thing he had a great sit-down on the Joe Rogan podcast not so long ago.


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    Agent Coulson
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    He has made JFK, Nixon, W and now I want to see him make a Trump film before he retires.


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    blue note
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    Didn't he do Bush as well?


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    Heres Johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Heres Johnny


    blue note wrote: »
    Didn't he do Bush as well?

    That's W


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    StringerBell
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    He has played down talk of doing features hasn't he? On that Rogan podcast actually I think. Said his son would be a better man to ask about those things then but hasn't ruled out documentaries, he said whatever he does if he does something again it will have to be something that excites him.

    He has a fantastic body of work, Any Given Sunday is a favourite of mine to go with the likes of platoon and JFK not to mention NBK, wall Street and some of his documentary work. He's had a fantastic career.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



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    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I watch The Doors recently. Great stuff.

    Always loved U-Turn as well. Made me want to be a screenwriter.


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    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Platoon is an absolute master piece, Iconic really and his best work imo,
    after all it was basically him played by charlie sheen.


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    Agent Coulson
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    He also wrote Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, Year of the Dragon & Evita.


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    yabadabado
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    He has made some brilliant films .

    I read his memoir, Chasing The Light ,recently and it is excellent.


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,668 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Salvador in '86 to Nixon in '95 was an incredible run of films. Stone had trouble getting political films made after this and eventually anything at all, but there was some good films there too even if they lacked the vibrancy of his earlier work. His falling out with Robert Richardson, a key collaborator, was a big loss. Richardson went on be a regular collaborator of Scorsese and Tarantino and gotten several Oscar noms, but his best work was with Stone.


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    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    El Rifle wrote: »
    Great montage of my favourite Director, who I believe is the best to ever do it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYq2coGxDU8

    Ever do what, direct? He wouldn't be anywhere near the top 10 of all time.


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    Wailin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Wailin


    ^^^ In your opinion.


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