Going to the movies was one of the most soul-killing things you could do during the latter part of George W. Bush’s presidency, and at the time I was paid to do exactly that. Yes, I was actually given money to watch movies and then opinionate on them, and let me tell you, back then it was work. Other than the rare but memorable joy of discovering a deliciously subversive “300” or “The Dark Knight,” two films that told the truth about the War on Terror through brilliantly entertaining allegory, for a long while there, movies were pretty dreadful.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with an artist having Something To Say, even in what is advertised as a commercial movie, even if I disagree with what it is they have to say. There was no better director in the 1990s than Oliver Stone, and he’s wrong about pretty much everything.
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