[jalisco555]

Oh, well, another one to skip this season. Too bad, this might have been interesting.

[agere_contra]

Too bad, this might have been interesting.

But its got Angelina Jolie (replete with snake)! What am I missing?

[RtWngr]

Just rename the movie to: "Alexander the Fabulous".

If we are lucky this will be Oliver Stone's last movie.

[kb2614]

Oliver Stone directed it. Enough reason to skip it.

[Tax-chick]

Alexander's great love was said to be Hephaistion, who is played in the film by Jared Leto, but unless you know Jared Leto by face, even late in the movie you'll have no idea which one he was. I thought he was this other guy, equally handsome, equally vapid, equally unmemorable, whom Alexander prongs with a spear in a drunken rage late in the movie. But that was some other guy.

For a minute, I thought I was reading a Mark Steyn review (Ultimate Compliment!)

[yoe]

Oliver Stone movies seem to reshape history to fit his fantasies, which in my view, are all neurotic.

[sergeantdave]

Put in a couple of scenes of Alexander spearing SUVs, during a tidal wave that swamps New York city while a gay couple swaps spit during a wedding ceremony under a poster stating that Bush is Hitler.

And rename the movie "Attack of the $6 Frappuccinos Sipping Killer Metrosexuals."

That should attract the Michael Moore crowd..

[Tom Bombadil]

In Stone's view...

Send him home with Chomsky. The two can swap views with eachother.

Nothing to waste any money on, that's for sure.

[agere_contra]

What is a fictional autobiography?

"autobiography" kind of implies that Alexander himself wrote it. It's a "fictional biography" - or just "fiction".

[GadareneDemoniac]

I just knew Oliver Stone would screw this up...

[Condor51]

Word has it that during the editing of this 'film'. A lot of important scenes were left on the cutting room floor, all to the dismay of Oliver Stone.

One scene was his personal favorite too - it proved that Alexander The Great was the 'Forth Shooter' in Dallas!

~~Stone mocking off~~

[gridlock]

Who is going to fork over money to see this movie?

The soft-hands types will be put off by the militarism. The fans of conquest and achievement will be put off by the placing of the bisexual side story in the center of the movie. Everyone else will be offended by the casting of the soft-faced non-entity of Colin Farrell as history's greatest conqueror.

This is a movie that is impossible for anyone to like.

[American Vet Repairman]

"Stone gives himself much credit of "telling the truth" about Alexander's bisexuality"


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[Savage Beast]

"Aristotle's male chauvinism probably had its greatest effect on his best-known pupil, Alexander III, King of Macedonia, whom the world insists on calling 'the Great.'"~Eva C. Keuls~
The Reign of the Phallus
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, p. 406

[CaptRon]

Review by Stephen Hunter, creator of Bob Lee Swaggger.

[Miss Marple]

Oliver Stone''s movie is a colossal flop? MORE good news this November!

[AmericanChef]

Dang it! This sounds awful. I didn't think much of Farrell in the role, but now I'm totally turned off.

[FreeKeys]

The History Channel is running a very good history of Alexander's battle strategies, and he's portrayed as a determined, focused, brilliant, steadfast LEADER.

[Swede Girl]

No matter the reviews, I will never pay a nickel to go see any movie that Oliver Stone has anything to do with.

[sully777]

Peter Graves (Captain Oever): "So Joey,...do you like gladiator movies?"

[Hildy]

I saw a promo for this yesterday (While viewing "BEING JULIA") and it looked SO bad. Worse than Troy, which looked pretty bad. Farrell's stupid little hairdo always cracks me up. ON THE OTHER HAND, the trailer for THE AVIATOR looked so intriguing, I started doing some research on it and it looks like it's the must see film of the year. The say Leonardo DiCaprio is unbelievable as Howard Hughes. This movie is about his early years, but hints at some of the reasons he became the kook that he became. I can't wait to see it!