U-Turn
Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez,
Billy Bob Thornton Powers Booth and Nick Nolte
.A dark comedy with badass soap
opera tendencies, U-turn tells the
tale of one mishap after another. A corrupt sheriff, in a dysfunctional little
town keeps drifter Penn stuck in psychotic limbo. He kills time enticed by the
alluring femme fatale in this Twilight Zone-like
messed up little flick that’s like a combination of the Postman Always Rings Twice and Red
Rock West. This one of Stone’s most overlooked flicks. A
perfect desert film noir boasting some of the best cameos ever! Check out Billy
Bob’s grease monkey. This flick is also famous for driving a wedge between
Stone and Penn’s relationship that is vile to put it mildly. Neither has a kind
word for each other to this day
Woody Harrelson, Juliette
Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones and Tom Sizemore
The quintessential commentary
of violence in the media as serial killers Mickey and Mallory Knox become folk
heroes and legends thanks to reality TV and the media’s warped overblown power.
Written by Quentin Tarantino, Stone’s psychedelic onslaught of sex, violence and
the media’s propaganda machine is satirized to the point of desensitization and
overload. Stone’s vision uses every camera trick in the book, different film
stock, quadruple soundtracks and insanely paced editing. Through Stone’s
never-ending adherence to Native American mysticism he skewers consumerism,
superficiality, mediocrity, and banality within the media and pop culture. Plus every single actor chews up the scenery
every chance they get.
Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven
Bauer
Who hasn’t seen this expletive laden masterpiece? Scarface is the all-encompassing saga of Cuban immigrant Tony Montana who takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed. This Stone penned cult classic directed by Brian DePalma is the ultimate sprawling violent gangster movie. Scarface almost reinvents the “so bad it’s good” category from the bloody chainsaw scene to the riveting shoot outs to the terrible Cuban accents unevenly spewed by Al Pacino, Stephen Bauer and Robert Loggia while coke sniffing Michelle Pfeiffer looks nice and wrecked…a laugh riot from beginning to end. One of the most quoted movies of all times--do I really have to say “Say hello to my little friend” here? Point of interest: as I left the theater the first time, I was like “who wrote this, a ten year old kid?” Nope, just the always immature Oliver Stone and that’s when he’s the most fun
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Who hasn’t seen this expletive laden masterpiece? Scarface is the all-encompassing saga of Cuban immigrant Tony Montana who takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed. This Stone penned cult classic directed by Brian DePalma is the ultimate sprawling violent gangster movie. Scarface almost reinvents the “so bad it’s good” category from the bloody chainsaw scene to the riveting shoot outs to the terrible Cuban accents unevenly spewed by Al Pacino, Stephen Bauer and Robert Loggia while coke sniffing Michelle Pfeiffer looks nice and wrecked…a laugh riot from beginning to end. One of the most quoted movies of all times--do I really have to say “Say hello to my little friend” here? Point of interest: as I left the theater the first time, I was like “who wrote this, a ten year old kid?” Nope, just the always immature Oliver Stone and that’s when he’s the most fun
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