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'ALEX' NOT SO GREAT
New York Post ^
| 11/27/04
| Aly Sujo
Posted on 11/27/2004 12:27:26 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:27:26 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Not "Battlefield Earth" bad, though (enjoyable as unintentional comedy). Just pitifully bad.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:31:06 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.)
To: Petronski
In other words, it makes Rocky Horror seem like fine art?
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:32:19 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(The Era of Old Media is over! Long live the Pajamasphere!)
To: kattracks
Dubbed a work of artistic suicide by most critics, the $155-million flick appeared to be headed for the box-office abyss after a limp Wednesday/Thursday take of just over $8 million. This is what happens when you take the story of a great military strategist and turn his life story into a fag-fest.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:33:33 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: Petronski
To: Petronski
Not "Battlefield Earth" bad, though (enjoyable as unintentional comedy). Just pitifully bad. Sometime, when I don't think I've got enough misery in my life, I think I'll rent "Battlefield Earth" and "Ishtar"...just to see if my pain threshold is really as high as the doctors said.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:34:37 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: B4Ranch; Prime Choice; Petronski
After JFK and Commandante, this would surprise us?
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:36:05 AM PST
by
risk
To: Petronski
Is it "Heaven's Gate" bad?
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:36:49 AM PST
by
REDWOOD99
To: risk
After JFK and Commandante, this would surprise us? Didn't Stone also do "Nixon" and "The Doors"?
Never saw any of those films except for "The Doors." Even that pseudo-biography of Jim Morrison was painfully dull to watch.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:37:48 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: REDWOOD99
Is it "Heaven's Gate" bad? Is it "Moulin Rouge" bad?
(I don't care what anyone says...that was the first time I ever rented a movie and stopped it in the first 45 minutes because I couldn't stand it.)
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:38:48 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: Prime Choice
Sometime, when I don't think I've got enough misery in my life, I think I'll rent "Battlefield Earth" and "Ishtar"...just to see if my pain threshold is really as high as the doctors said.Bah. You think that's pain? Go rent R.O.T.O.R. or 'Manos' the Hands of Fate (non MST3K version).
Then you will know true pain.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:39:11 AM PST
by
MWS
To: Prime Choice
The trailer alone made me ill. I bet it will do well in the Bay area though.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:40:04 AM PST
by
Search4Truth
(When a man lies he murders some part of the world.)
To: REDWOOD99
I've only read reviews. But I remember splitting a gut reading the Battlefield Earth reviews, whereas, the Alex reviews are more eulogic.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:40:07 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.)
To: MWS
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:40:48 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.)
To: Prime Choice
My wife loves "Moulin Rouge." I have to leave the room when she puts it on.
To: kattracks
My daughter (17) saw 'Alexander' and said it was absolutely excruciating to sit through. At one point she was happy and relieved because it appeared that Alexander was dead, the movie was over, and she could finally leave. But then it turned out that Alexander wasn't dead after all and she had to sit there for another hour. Words failed her in trying to relate just how bad this movie was.
To: Lancey Howard
"At one point she was happy and relieved because it appeared that Alexander was dead, the movie was over, and she could finally leave."
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
BUT NOOOO!
LOL!
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:45:03 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Jihad is world wide. Jihad is serious business. We ignore global jihad at our peril.)
To: Prime Choice
I swore off Oliver Stone movies after the Doors.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:45:21 AM PST
by
Huntress
To: Huntress
...and that was one of his "good" ones.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:46:40 AM PST
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: kattracks
Why anyone would trust a 150 million budget to this kook is beyond me. They should of known he would try to force some kind of left-wing political message into it; this time it seems like some kind of gay theme. I think finally though its over for him. He won't ever be trusted with a big budget again, and maybe not even a small one. What a loss though; a big, action movie about Alexander could have been so great.
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posted on
11/27/2004 12:53:32 AM PST
by
OmegaMan
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