Misunderstood.

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2004)

I am glad that Oliver was true to the story. It's too bad others have not been accepting of it. I have read some observations of the film over historical-realated sites. Now, there is a bunch who know ATG, well. They have actually been positive about the film and they were a bunch of people who were very afraid that Stone would do a hack job. They are surprised at how well he did. So the people that know the subject really liked the film. That means that he didn't make it or compromise it for the MTV generation. I am glad that he did not. Unfortunately I wish the general public "got it", but the critics didn't and just passed their negativity onto the general public.
There is almost no wasted *dialogue*. Most of it is essential, although they did sometimes repeat the same basic thought in two different wordings, so the SCRIPT could have been cut down, making shorter scenes, and thus leaving room for another scene or two.