Oh, well, another one to skip this season. Too bad, this might have been interesting.
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To: jalisco555
Too bad, this might have been interesting.But its got Angelina Jolie (replete with snake)! What am I missing?
To: jalisco555
Just rename the movie to: "Alexander the Fabulous".
If we are lucky this will be Oliver Stone's last movie.
3 posted on
11/24/2004 4:14:08 AM PST by
RtWngr
(Being tolerant of the intolerant is pretty stupid actually.)
To: jalisco555
Oliver Stone directed it. Enough reason to skip it.
4 posted on
11/24/2004 4:14:19 AM PST by
kb2614
( You have everything to fear, including fear itself. - The new DNC slogan)
To: jalisco555
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!)
7 posted on
11/24/2004 4:18:54 AM PST by
Tax-chick
(The whole world has gone crazy. Their beebers are stuned and there's no turning back.)
To: jalisco555
Oliver Stone movies seem to reshape history to fit his fantasies, which in my view, are all neurotic.
8 posted on
11/24/2004 4:24:45 AM PST by
yoe
To: jalisco555
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..
11 posted on
11/24/2004 4:43:18 AM PST by
sergeantdave
(More liberal turkeys will be steamed this month than real turkeys baked.)
To: jalisco555
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.
To: jalisco555
What is a fictional autobiography?"autobiography" kind of implies that Alexander himself wrote it. It's a "fictional biography" - or just "fiction".
To: jalisco555
I just knew Oliver Stone would screw this up...
To: jalisco555
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~~
28 posted on
11/24/2004 5:41:33 AM PST by
Condor51
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
To: jalisco555
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.
32 posted on
11/24/2004 5:50:28 AM PST by
gridlock
(The Republican Party is a stupid party no more...)
To: jalisco555
"Stone gives himself much credit of "telling the truth" about Alexander's bisexuality"
This ABC broadcast premier is sponsored by Tucks-For soothing relief. And Preparation H -to help the burning. KY Jelly- What are freinds for?. And, The National Hamster Foundation- bringing boys and pets together.
36 posted on
11/24/2004 5:59:59 AM PST by
American Vet Repairman
(Making the Liberals look like fools is fun and low in carbs!)
To: jalisco555
"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
39 posted on
11/24/2004 6:07:56 AM PST by
Savage Beast
(This is the choice: confrontation or capitulation. Appeasement is capitulation.)
To: jalisco555
Review by Stephen Hunter, creator of Bob Lee Swaggger.
40 posted on
11/24/2004 6:11:04 AM PST by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: jalisco555
Oliver Stone''s movie is a colossal flop? MORE good news this November!
To: jalisco555
Dang it! This sounds awful. I didn't think much of Farrell in the role, but now I'm totally turned off.
To: jalisco555
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.
47 posted on
11/24/2004 6:41:28 AM PST by
FreeKeys
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To: jalisco555
No matter the reviews, I will never pay a nickel to go see any movie that Oliver Stone has anything to do with.
To: jalisco555
Peter Graves (Captain Oever): "So Joey,...do you like gladiator movies?"
50 posted on
11/24/2004 6:59:24 AM PST by
sully777
(Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
To: jalisco555
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!
51 posted on
11/24/2004 7:00:50 AM PST by
Hildy
(The really great men are always simple and true)
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