Stone blames 'fundamentalism' in US for 'Alexander' flop

Entertainment - AFP ^ | Wed Jan 5, 2005

[deaconjim]

Could it be that morality is more important to Americans than entertainment? Of course, it could just be that Americans didn't think his film was worth the trouble to go see.

[pacpam]

Greece wanted to sue Oliver Stone for his portrayal. Didn't need American Fundamentalism to sink it.

[Ellesu]

Oh Cry Me A River. It's both.

[Max Combined]

Already posted.

[Mr. Mojo]

Or it could be that the film is just plain bad. ....which would be the last thing Stone would ever admit.

[wildwood]

i guess he doesn't count greece as being upset, just us. hm. myopic.

[Texas_Jarhead]

At least Stone has his ego in check.

[DManA]

Pathetic attempt to drum up interest in this dog.

[ReadyNow]

I wanted to see a hot gay history movie, but I heard that this one was a REALLY bad film.

[deaconjim]

O.K., you beat me to it. You must have posted while I was formatting. : ^ }

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

He got stopped by that lousy rotten morality. And the problem is...??

[Fitzcarraldo]

after a career full of cage-rattling work

[Critical Bill]

He should have cast an unknown instead of that Irish? twit as the lead actor. I walked out of Troy because I could not get past the fact that Brad Pitt was the lead actor.

[postaldave]

lets see will and grace is a big hit but when someone makes a 20 hour gayporn film with no real plot all of a sudden america is anti-gay? crap is crap, gay is gay. get is straight.

[bigsigh]

Domestic: $34,016,586 43.9%

+ Overseas: $43,500,000 56.1%

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= Worldwide: $77,516,586

[xrp]

No, I didn't go see it because I figured it would suck and just an attempt to re-create Braveheart.

[SamAdams76]

No. There are tons of immoral films making big money in America. It's just that this movie sucks so bad that even liberals won't go to see it.

[Welsh Rabbit]

"Sexuality is a large issue in America right now, but it isn't so much in other countries," he said.

*yawn* Or maybe you're just an overrated hack and the film sucked. I don't usually put too much stock in critic's reviews, but when 99.9% of them says a movie really, really sucks, it usually does. But it's a good strategy to go to Europe and claim the film was too sophisticated for American prudes; that's sure to sell a few more tickets.

[exit82]

The movie bombed because it wasn't about a subject that an American could or should relate to.

This guy reigned 2400 yrs. ago. And that matters now, why?

Most people today don't even know who we fought in WW2, let alone go see a biopic about an historical figure from 300 BC.

The only folks worth watching in the film were the elephants.

So far, they have done more to help the tsunami victims than most of Hollywood has.

[Kozak]

Actually the reason it got a frosty reception is it's a piece of dreck. It was painful to sit though. peole were laughing, people just gave up and left.