THIS Rosario Dawson?
Posted on 11/11/2004 7:40:23 AM PST by gopwinsin04
Maybe they should call it 'Alexander the Grating.'
The Oliver Stone epic starring Colin Farell doesn't even open until November 24, but Stone quietly screened it to some audiences this week--and the early reaction seems to be a big thumbs down.
'The movie starts out being shot very traditionally but then 2 hours into the film Stone decides to start shooting the film like 'Natural Born Killers' with infa red camera shots and scenes washed in red, groused a reviewer on IMDB.com. 'Very strange and out of place.'
A few viewers did find something to like about the film, 'The Rosario Dawson nude scene will make you worship her, writes one.
Stone has a lot riding on this epic pic--which reported cost a staggering 150 million to make--and a source said the director seemed uncharateriscally subdued when he was answering questions at the screening.
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THIS Rosario Dawson?
Yep, she's a hotty for sure, albeit a dimwitted lefty hotty.
bye bye oliver...may you rot on the altar of hollywood as a sacrifice to better things.
I seriously doubt Stone will get that kind that kind of huge dough to make a big budget epic anymore, even the libs cant afford to throw that much money away.
She can ride in the front seat. No need to ride in the back.
Oliver will be back to doing low budget snuff pics like 'U-Turn' and Naural Born Killers..'
This movie is leading the charge for best picture oscar!
Another turkey by a liberal. They all decided they wanted to do "epics" after the sucess of Gladiator with Russell Crowe. A lot of people liked that film because Crwoe's character had a form of faith and his love of his family. This was followed by Mel's huge film about Jesus. Mel also did some very sucessful period films about Scotland and U.S. Revoltionary War.
This Stone film will be a turkey. If he is hoping it is a hit based on a nude scene then he is in trouble. The Crowe film and Mel movies did not need nude scenes.
Oliver Stone should go back to Havana to stand in line with Jiminy Carter, Martin Sheen, Spielberg and others to lick Castro's boots.
When Pauline Kael retired from her job as film reviewer at "The New Yorker" magazine in the early 1990s, she wrote that one of her reasons for retiring was that she just couldn't bear to see another Oliver Stone film get released.
We all wish that Oliver Stone would retire.
Exactly right. They've tried to make "epics" that are woefully miscast. Pretty boys like Brad Pitt and Colin Farrell simply aren't believable as conquering heroes in films like TROY and ALEXANDER. Crowe had the screen presence to make himself believable as a historical figure. Mel, also, in THE PATRIOT. Pitt (while a talented actor, IMHO) and Farrell simply don't.
What could be better than Oliver Stoned giving birth to a loser?
I'll be skipping Alexander.
Oh well. I guess I just have different taste than others. I loved "Nixon". Great performance. I thought "JFK" was interesting, like Kevin Costner's performance. I loved "The Doors", it was scary what a good job they did recreating Jim. NBK was a mash up B movie not worth the time to see. Platoon was not my favorite Nam movie, but also was worth seeing I thought. It was a much less stylized (if ulitmately less satisfying) movie then either Apocolypse Now or Deer Hunter. (Not to mention Kubricks absurd and uneven Full Metal Jacket).
So all in all I think Stone has made some decent movies. It's easy to believe Alexander isn't one of them. The man made 6 of his best movies more or less on the topic of the 60's and Vietnam: Nixon, JFK, Hearts and Minds, Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon and the Doors. It's not clear he can make movies that stray far from this. Certainly the B movies were a huge disapointment. Perhaps he is a spent force.
Pitt was excellent in TROY.
Is that the review from blurbmeister 'Shaun Edwards' or 'Jeff Craig'
Alexander 26.0 (3.8 to 1) Passion/Christ 21.0 (4.7 to 1) Ray 15.0 (6.7 to 1) The Aviator 10.5 (9.5 to 1) Phantom/Opera 6.0 (16.7 to 1)
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