Stone blames 'fundamentalism' in US for 'Alexander' flop

Yahoo! News ^ | 01/05/05 | c/o Associated Press

[Angry Republican]

Did he ever think the movie flopped because it sucked?

[Blue Screen of Death]

Interesting ongoing discussion here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314943/posts

[dts32041]

Naw his ego wouldn't allow it after all he gave us a true portrayal of Viet Nam in Platoon, the story of klintoons and john kerry's service to the country in Viet Nam.

[Angry Republican]

Drat. I was just poking fun at F14 Pilot for posting the same article two seconds after me. D'OH!

[F14 Pilot]

lol

pull mine

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Admit nothing, deny everything, blame others for everything. /Leftist sodomy promoting perverted hollywood ideology.

[Angry Republican]

You'll have to talk to the Admin Mod.

[Uncle Vlad]

Any explanation's gotta be better than the truth. I was unfortunate enough to see Alexander. Here are just some of the reasons why it should only be shown in drive-in movie theaters in the daytime:

Other than Anthony Hopkins' and Christopher Plummer's, there wasn't a single likable character in the whole movie. I want to know why Alexander was such a charismatic historic character. I want to know why men would follow him literally to the ends of the Earth. I didn't see that here.

The battle scenes, although full of senseless violence, have no emotional impact. You don't really care who wins. It's not like other big screen movies, such as Braveheart or Gladiator, where you have an emotional stake in who wins or loses.

All of the Macedonians have Irish or Scottish brogues. Are they kidding?

Angelina Jolie has a Russian accent. Are they kidding?

Val Kilmer is wasted as Philip. He's a great actor, and Oliver Stone utterly wastes his performance.

Alexander is portrayed as hysterical throughout the movie, without no charisma. Again, you want to know why men follow him.

I was disappointed in how little you see of the Persians. I wanted to see something of King Xerxes. I wanted to see something of the intrigue in the Persian court. I wanted to see some characterization there. You see a couple of close-ups of Xerxes during the battle scenes, and that's pretty much it.

Everything that happens onscreen needs to move the story forward. There's a lot of extraneous drivel. Stone makes the beginning drama student's mistake. He "tells" us instead of "shows" us. Okay, we get it that Alexander probably had sex with men. So what? It was a common practice then. Everyone who studies Classical history knows that. Who cares? I get it! Don't beat me over the head with it, use it to somehow move the story forward. Instead, Stone is preaching at me, "Alexander was bisexual and probably even gay. Doesn't that just make him a wonderful guy!" I don't care! And don't tell me afterward how I'm some homophobic Red state Neanderthal. Blah, blah, blah. That's too easy.

I wanted to know what made Roxanne so fascinating that Alexander would risk his kingdom to marry her. (Great nude scene with Rosario Dawson, by the way; there can never be enough gorgeous naked women in a blockbuster movie as far as I'm concerned, but it didn't drive the story forward.)

I couldn't help but watch the movie and think, If only someone like David Lean or Mel Gibson had made this movie!

[Simmy2.5]

Even my VERY liberal sister's friend thought it sucked. Was she a fundamentalist too?

Roger Ebert, Oliver Stone worshiper gave it a thumbs down. If he can give it a thumbs down, you know it's bad!

If a movie sucked for being an overall crappy film, NIETHER side of the aisle will go see it.

[uncle fenders]

It would have been kind of fun to ask Stone...How he could make a movie about such a world changing figure, someone that he could only scratch the surface of their life...yet, he is all obsessed with his bedroom behavior? I could care less....if it fascinates him so much why didn't he just shoot a gay porn with the title making a cheesy play on the name PETER ?

[G Larry]

>"raging fundamentalism in morality"<

Good!
It would be nice if 'raging degenerency and immoraltiy' declined a bit.

[handy]

Word of mouth from people at work is that this movie stinks.

[Ciexyz]

Richard Burton's version of "Alexander the Great" (1956) is available on DVD at Hollywood Video. Rent that one instead.

"Troy" (2004) is available for rental now, and even tho' some have criticized it, the production values are eons above Oliver Stone's flop.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Fundamentalist Hindus? Yeah, its nasty how they always paint the Greeks as evil. ;-D

[Blood of Tyrants]

Typical liberal. It is always somebody else's fault.

[Angry Republican]

It's Bush's fault.

[AD from SpringBay]

Couldn't be that the movie was crap or that the acting was crap or that the writing was crap or that the directing was crap. It must have been those savage fundamentalists and their hangups about the sodomites.

Let's chalk one up for the fundamentalists then! Hey Hollywood - homo based crap doesn't sell. Just ask Ellen Degenerate or Rosie O'Lesbo. America won't buy homo. It don't work and we don't think it's normal either.

ps - Hey Oliver, your film was crap too!

[Captain Peter Blood]

This guy hasn't made a decent picture since "Platoon" and "Wall Street".
"Alexander" just wasn't a great film and when your trying to make an historical epic it better have a good story but most of all a lot of action. This just wasn't "Gladiator" which was a really good film with a real moral story and ending, it was about truth and honor with a lot of great action.
I haven't seen "Alexander" and I may see it on DVD but from all accounts it just didn't have the right stuff.
I think back to all the great Steve Reeves pictures of the late 1950's early 1960's, they were all period pieces from the Greek and Roman periods and were great. Main component was a lot action and a decent story line.
People just were not interested in seeing a film about "Alexander" that emphasized his Bisexuality.

[Angry Republican]

JFK was pretty funny. Tin foil alert up the wazoo!

[M Kehoe]

In London for its British premiere, Stone, 58, said that after a career full of cage-rattling work, he thought a biopic of Alexander the Great, the 4th century Macedonian-born conquerer, would be "a safe subject".

Maybe Oliver meant myopic?

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