Posted 12:09 PM by sport

Gee, what does it take to make me actually write words after months of no blog, no email? This:

Oliver Stone, easily one of the world's shittiest major filmmakers (which, btw, means: "his films suck cock more than anyone else's except for Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers" ...not: "I don't like his politics"), cashes in on 9-11 in a new entertainment product starring the world's crappiest actor (which means nobody on earth is a crappier actor), Nicholas Cage.
Why is this director especially suited to take on the job? In his own words, from today's Newsday:

"My initial reactions, having come from Vietnam, having seen the disaster of that, having seen Watergate, having imagined what JFK was like, I can't say it was the greatest disaster of my life," Stone says of 9/11. "It was one of several big, bad nightmares along the road for America, but it has to be kept in perspective. When you live life, over 60 some years" - Stone turns 60 in September - "come on, we're not Boy Scouts here."

Touching, eh? And obviously, who better qualified to tell the tale, then, eh?
(I still can't figure out how Stone's "imagined" JFK qualifies as a disaster of epic proportions... Anne Coulter's version might, maybe... speaking of disasters).
But this jaded view does not completely convey the heart of Stone
(who, incidentally, was originally named "Oliver Ng" when he first "came from Vietnam," I think). Newsday's piece continues:

Stone didn't jump on the 9/11 film bandwagon right away. The director says he was depressed by the march to war in Iraq, and as a way to "get out of it," he decided to make the 2004 release "Alexander," which allowed him to "go into another world of ancient history, and the first East-West clash. I'm very lucky in my profession to be able to do that, because these last three years in America were --, they were hard. It's a tough fight for Americans."

Depressed enough by the "march to war in Iraq" that he needed to distract himself with a costume picture. But his reaction to 9-11 was "eh... seen worse."
Though - in my view - as stupidly obscene as Mel Gibson's anti-Jew tirade, none of Stone's remarks will make the faintest stir or the slightest difference.

Neither did the attacks themselves, though, did they... make any difference I mean.
After all, as Stone said earlier, this was not the greatest disaster of HIS life
(cue Adagio for Strings... pump up the pathos).
And "these last three years" have been tough for Americans...
this means the previous three were less so perhaps?

Dunno how things were in your neck of the woods between the day the towers fell and the day we invaded Iraq, but I can tell you how things were here. And how they've degenerated since.
Oliver Stone supposedly tells the rousing story of several who made it out alive. I'd tell you about some who did not, and a family that continues to crumble because of it. But that's neither good entertainment nor good propaganda, and shucks, I'm nobody at all.

Well, better go to the multiplex and shell out cash so Oliver Stone can give me some "perspective."

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-ffmov4838388aug06,0,4864818.story?coll=ny-entertainment-headlines