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Willie Beamen - what a player!!!

Advantages: good plot, great acting, fab ending
Disadvantages: not enough on field action, have to endure Willies vommiting

...neck!" Conclusion I think Any Given Sunday is won of the all-time greatest sports movies. Not only does it have a genuinely great cast and the acting is fantastic, but it explores some sides of American Football that not many people would know about, like illegal drug taking to enhance performance, physiotherapists who push players to play when perhaps they shouldn't because the pressure to win is so great and the ego's of some players. As I said ...
...gives is very memorable. Well worth purchasing on DVD. Director - Oliver Stone (Platoon, 1986, Natural Born Killers 1994 & World Trade Center 2006) Producers - Richard Donner (The Goonies 1985, Conspiracy Theory 1997, )& Oliver Stone Released - December 22nd 1999 (DVD 1st September 2000) Runtime - 150 minutes Thanks for reading. (also posted on Dooyoo under the same name) ...

beanie8844 27.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Any Given Sunday (Director's Cut) (DVD)

The President Can Bomb Anybody He Likes

Advantages: Gripping, Great Acting, Insightful
Disadvantages: Poor Special Features

...less. His performance as Nixon is outstanding, he really gets into the character. He may not look all that much like the man himself, but he has his mannerisms down to a tee. It is in my opinion an Oscar winning performance. The film is quite fragmented, it moves around in time quite a lot. In a lesser directors hands it would have gone out of control, but Stone keeps it all together. For example, often the film will go back to Nixon as a child ...
...Summary = Nixon is certainly an intriguing and historically important person. His paranoia with bugs and his famous enemies list, Cuba, the Vietnam war and bombing of Cambodia, Watergate and much more make for rich material for a film like this, and make the three hours pass by very quickly. Of course, with a film such as this as with JFK, not all of the facts are entirely clear. I would say that the film appears to be a fairly balanced ...

sandyback75 09.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Nixon (DVD)

Greed Is A Bitch

Advantages: Mostly well-acted, manages to depict protagonist's moral struggle well.
Disadvantages: It gets dull sometimes, as the trading scenes and conversations drag on.

...Gekko, a legendary figure on Wall Street whom he idolises. In his attempts to get his attention and convince him to give him a chance, Fox tells him some confidential information that he has learned from his father, an airline worker and union representative, that provides Gekko with the opportunity to make a significant profit. This has the desired effect, and Gekko agrees to become his mentor. But Gekko only plays for high stakes and not by the ...
...and co-written by Oliver Stone, WALL STREET was a timely account of 1980s excess and greed. Stone wanted to create a story in the mould of John Bunyan's THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, a tale of personal corruption and attempt at redemption. He enlisted his film school friend Stanley Weiser to develop the script, and after considerable ground research, the expert input of several real-life Wall Street players and many re-writes, the final script was completed. ...

babycougar 29.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Wall Street (DVD)

Stars and Wipes

Advantages: Well balanced, clever effects
Disadvantages: Inaccurate points - but I'm no editor

DVD - WORLD TRADE CENTER Produced - 2006 Director - Oliver Stone Titled - Stars and Wipes **************************** A generation will not forget what happened on September 11th 2001 in New York. The world changed that day, and this Oliver Stone film depicted what was lost when it came to pride and honor. Not surprising that the horrors installed a backlash which we are still reaping today, even though if not just diluted ...
...independent building adjacent to the World Trade Centre pit, was not shown to have also fallen, which fell exactly like the twin towers did; wasn't even mentioned. I liked that because that building holds the biggest conspiracies that prior the event no-one even entered the building, and also the CIA had used it for years. This is where Michael Mann had centred his fury in 'Fahrenheit'; which made a donkey out of the security services along the way ...

1st2thebar 04.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of World Trade Center (DVD)

A Hollywood telling of two surviors stories

Advantages: Based on real stories, good acting, emotive
Disadvantages: Doesn't show the full picture

Most people will have mixed feelings about this movie, with it being based on a very true event that alot of us will remember having watched it from the TV, at least you will if your anything like me. When 9/11 happened, it was one of those moments where you'll end up remembering for years later where you were when you heard about it (for me I was in a college class). So obviously, this movie had to be treated very delicately as our memories of the ...
...what you might think it is, in terms of that yes its to do with 9/11 and it follows people who become trapped when the buildings fall and the courage and hope they have to survive, as well as showing their relatives and their worry and despair. However, what this film misses alot of, is showing the big picture. Let me explain more by going over the story in more detail... The title of this review pretty much says it all, the film follows two main ...

IzzyS 13.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of World Trade Center (Commemorative Special Collectors' Edition) (DVD)