Oliver Stone slams ‘John Wick,’ ‘Fast & Furious’ films: ‘Disgusting’
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, 76, didn’t hold back giving his hot take on Hollywood as we know it today, and slammed films like “John Wick,” and “Fast & Furious.”
Speaking , Stone revealed that he recently watched Keanu Reeves’ film “John Wick 4” on a flight — and he wasn’t a fan.
“Talk about volume,” he said. “I think the film is disgusting beyond belief. Disgusting.”
“I don’t know what people are thinking,” he said of film producers and directors.
“Maybe I was watching G.I. Joe when I was a kid. But [Reeves] kills, what, three, four hundred people in the f–king movie. And as a combat veteran, I gotta tell you, not one of them is believable. I realize it’s a movie, but it’s become a video game more than a movie.”
Stone believes that films these days have “lost touch with reality,” adding that “the audience perhaps likes the video game. But I get bored by it.”
“How many cars can crash? How many stunts can you do? What’s the difference between Fast and Furious and some other film?” he told the outlet.
“It’s just one thing after another. Whether it’s a super-human Marvel character or just a human being like John Wick, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s not believable.”
And while receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Transilvania Film Festival in Romania this month, Stone reportedly said, “People in showbiz are idiots. They just go with the trend, they just go with the fashion — it’s a fashion business.”
Stone had previously given his view on how the film industry changed since the 1970s, telling in 2020, “If I made any of my films [today], I don’t think I’d last.”
“I’d be vilified. I’d be attacked. Shamed,” he went on. “I would have had to step on so many sensitivities. You have to have some freedom to make a movie, unfortunately.”
“You have to be rude. You can be bad. And you’re going to have to do these things like step on toes. Holy cow. Do you think I could have made any one of those films?”
