[FormerACLUmember]

"Alexander lived in a more honest time," Oliver Stone told Playboy magazine.

In a historical first, the words "honest" and "Oliver Stone" appear in the same sentance.

I think I'll punt on seeing the grossly miscast Colin Farrell as a silly blond Alexander gayboy.

[thegreatbeast]

Early word has it that Alexander is a huge stinker. Couldn't happen to a sicker mofo than Stone.

[msnimje]

I had never seen JFK and it was on TV the other night. What a a bunch of hooey!

[ROTB]

>It was said ... that Alexander was never defeated, except by
>Hephaistion's thighs

Nevertheless, the Greeks were conquered by the Romans. Let's not idolize a conquered people.

[Darkwolf377]

Kubrick handled this material in Spartacus with no problem, but stone has to make a spectacle of it to distract us from noticing his lack of talent.

A friend of mine works in the industry and when I asked him who he liked working with he gave me many names of folks who are very pleasant and creative to work with; I asked him who was rotten to work with and he said only one name. Guess who? He said Stone was so nasty, ignorant and credit-hogging, that he would under no circumstances work with him again.

[Nosterrex]

Leave it to Stone to screw up a movie about Alexander the Great. I was planning on seeing the movie, but I don't think I will now.

[Welsh Rabbit]

"Alexander lived in a more honest time," Stone told Playboy magazine.... "Young boys were with boys when they wanted to be."

Pining for more honest times, Oliver?

[lara]

I heard Michael Medved talking about it today and he said the ads for it are very misleading.

[Jeff Gordon]

The historical Alexander was a somewhat effeminate appearing bi-sexual. It appears that Stone has portraied Alexander pretty much correctly. Just because the movie is accurate does not make it a good movie or even an interesting movie.

[ladyinred]

"Alexander lived in a more honest time," Stone told Playboy magazine. "We go into his bisexuality. It may offend some people, but sexuality in those days was a different thing. Pre-Christian morality. Young boys were with boys when they wanted to be."

I had no idea Oliver was that old. He appears to absolutely know this for a fact.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

From the mention of the character Bagoas, it sounds like Stone based his movie on Mary Renault's excellent and thoughtful novel, THE PERSIAN BOY. Shame if the movie really is a stinker. I hate it when someone takes a great book and makes a rotten movie from it.

[Baytovin]

"Alexander lived in a more honest time, Stone told Playboy magazine. We go into his bisexuality. It may offend some people, but sexuality in those days was a different thing. Pre-Christian morality. Young boys were with boys when they wanted to be."


....and such wonderful, liberal societies no longer exist for WHAT reasons....?

[GOP_Proud]

You could not pay me to see anything with Oliver Stone's name on it. I would just assume it is full of distortion and half-truths.