Basic vs Stone
Basic has the higher audience score (6.5/10 against 5.3/10 for Stone). Basic is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 1h 45m. Basic is the older of the two (2003 against 2010). Both are action, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Basic
Stone| Basic | Stone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 5.3/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2010 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | John McTiernan | John Curran |
| Main cast | Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Dash Mihok, Giovanni Ribisi, Connie Nielsen | Enver Gjokaj, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, Edward Norton |
Synopsis
Basic
When a hurricane hits a US Army base on the edge of the Panama Canal, an elite covert operations team of US Army Rangers recruits are on a routine jungle training exercise that goes horribly awry. Only two recruits are rescued, one of which is badly injured, but both have different accounts regarding the fate of their leader, legendary and ruthless Army Ranger Drill Sergeant Nathan West, and the rest of their platoon. Tom Hardy, an ex-army…
Stone
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his…