September 02, 2006

"War is Hell"

According to Oliver Stone, Hollywood glamorizes war. He cites Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down as examples.

Pearl Harbor smelled like yesterday's diapers. It was all love story with, like, the attack thrown in for drama. I haven't seen Black Hawk Down yet (even though cutie Ewan McGregor is in it), but Husband, at least, thought it was pretty realistic.

What about movies like, oh, Saving Private Ryan? I don't know about you, but I thought it was pretty realistic.

Now....has Hollywood been "glamorizing" was just recently, or is he knocking all those WW II era films too?

Boy, Ollie, you've opened up a can of worms with that statement.