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View Poll Results: Favorite Oliver Stone film?
Salvador
1.55%
Platoon
36.43%
Talk Radio
0
0%
Born On The 4th of July
4.65%
Wall Street
7.75%
Heaven and Earth
0
0%
The Doors
0.78%
JFK
29.46%
Natural Born Killers
10.08%
Nixon
2.33%
Any Given Sunday
0.78%
U-Turn
0.78%
ALexander
1.55%
World Trade Center
0.78%
W.
0
0%
Other
3.10%
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Old 08-05-10 | 06:16 PM
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What is your favorite Oliver Stone film?
Old 08-05-10 | 06:22 PM
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"Hitler: The Misunderstood Mirthmeister"
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Platoon
Old 08-05-10 | 07:04 PM
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Platoon
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Platoon
Old 08-05-10 | 07:26 PM
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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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Old 08-05-10 | 07:50 PM
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JFK.

Platoon is a close second.
Old 08-05-10 | 08:45 PM
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Platoon just beats out Midnight Express
Old 08-05-10 | 08:47 PM
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I've seen so few of his..but NBK for me.
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.
Old 08-05-10 | 08:56 PM
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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.
Old 08-05-10 | 08:58 PM
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Wall Street. One of those movies I always find myself watching whenever I come across it while flipping around.
Old 08-05-10 | 09:23 PM
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JFK is in my top five all-time, so that.
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)
Old 08-05-10 | 09:47 PM
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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.
Old 08-05-10 | 11:19 PM
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J f k
Old 08-05-10 | 11:49 PM
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Wall Street. The Hand comes in at a close second
Old 08-06-10 | 12:47 AM
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Natural Born Killers is Stone's masterpiece
Old 08-06-10 | 12:51 AM
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JFK

Platoon was too angsty.
Old 08-06-10 | 02:03 AM
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Haven't seen enough to vote but really appreciate Natural Born Killers
Old 08-06-10 | 07:36 AM
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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
Old 08-08-10 | 01:02 AM
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