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View Poll Results: Favorite Oliver Stone film?
Salvador
2
1.55%
Platoon
47
36.43%
Talk Radio
0
0%
Born On The 4th of July
6
4.65%
Wall Street
10
7.75%
Heaven and Earth
0
0%
The Doors
1
0.78%
JFK
38
29.46%
Natural Born Killers
13
10.08%
Nixon
3
2.33%
Any Given Sunday
1
0.78%
U-Turn
1
0.78%
ALexander
2
1.55%
World Trade Center
1
0.78%
W.
0
0%
Other
4
3.10%
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Old 08-05-10, 06:16 PM
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What is your favorite Oliver Stone film?
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"Hitler: The Misunderstood Mirthmeister"
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Platoon is his best, probably my favorite war movie ever.
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JFK. Despite my firm conviction that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F Kennedy and did it entirely alone, I think JFK is great, grand, epic cinema.

NBK is a strong but still distant second.

I think Platoon is a good film but overrated.
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JFK.

Platoon is a close second.
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Platoon just beats out Midnight Express
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I've seen so few of his..but NBK for me.
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Old 08-05-10, 08:55 PM
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Favorite: Without a doubt, the extended cut of Nixon. It has some great acting from Hopkins, an amazingly deep cast, awesome cinematography, and John Williams last best score(to the point that he apparently re-used it as part of the Phantom Menace score).

I will say that if I was going for his best or most defining, I'd agree with Platoon or JFK.
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He wrote Midnight Express, not directed it... (also wrote Scarface.)
He also wrote Year of the Dragon and 8 Million Ways to Die. If nothing else, I wish he'd do some more scripts as he made some great screenplays.
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Wall Street. One of those movies I always find myself watching whenever I come across it while flipping around.
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JFK is in my top five all-time, so that.
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Old 08-05-10, 09:38 PM
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Favorite would still be Platoon (Surprised to see it get a lot of votes here)
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Favorite would still be Platoon Surprised to see it get a lot of votes here)
I don't really think it's surprising.

It's probably his most acclaimed film, an Oscar winner, very successful financially and popular with audiences.
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Wall Street. The Hand comes in at a close second
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Natural Born Killers is Stone's masterpiece
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JFK

Platoon was too angsty.
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Haven't seen enough to vote but really appreciate Natural Born Killers
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Re: Oliver Stone
I don't think I've seen enough Stone films to make a choice. Haven't really loved any of the few of his I've seen, so I don't go out of my way to watch them. I guess I liked Heaven and Earth. Just picked up the BD of NBK though, will check it out later this year.
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1. JFK
2, Nixon
3. Born on The Fourth of July
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