WTF?!? I haven't even taken two sips of my coffee and the first thing I see is some pathetic producer blame his failure on the fact that Americans are generally good and decent people.
"YOU TELL 'EM, OLLIE!"
Posted on 01/09/2005 4:23:57 AM PST by billorites
HIS LATEST attempt at ridiculous historical revisionism, “Alexander,” having met defeat at the box office, director Oliver Stone has sought a scapegoat for his failure: Americans.
“Americans don’t read about ancient history like the Europeans. And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality,” Stone said last week in an attempt to explain his flop. “From day one the Bible Belt people did not show up because there was one phrase throughout the media and that was ‘Alex the gay.’”
According to Stone, the “raging fundamentalism and morality” of Americans kept his film from doing well because we didn’t want to see Alexander the Great as a bisexual.
Yes, it must have been that raging homophobia that prompted a New York Times critic to write of the film: “Certainly it’s brought out the worst in terms of the puerile writing, confused plotting, shockingly off-note performances and storytelling that lacks either of the two necessary ingredients for films of this type, pop or gravitas.”
When “The Village” did far worse than its expectations last year, M. Night Shyamalan didn’t go around insulting his audience. But then, Oliver Stone is no M. Night Shyamalan. Stone, who has built a career out of making films that express unveiled contempt for his own countrymen, is an artist permanently detached from reality. Shyamalan, by contrast, seems to have an innate compassion for average people and a better understanding of human nature.
If Stone quits insulting his audience, “Alexander” might have a chance at passing the equally panned “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” in box office take. But we won’t hold our breath for either to happen.
WTF?!? I haven't even taken two sips of my coffee and the first thing I see is some pathetic producer blame his failure on the fact that Americans are generally good and decent people.
"YOU TELL 'EM, OLLIE!"
Perhaps someday we will mature to the level of Europe but, alas, not this day ;-)
PS: good riddance to bad trash.
We call it righteousness. God's righteousness. Don't care for it? Well that puts you on the other side then doesn't it?
So what's the problem. Would he rather have it "Raging relativism and immorality" - Answer: YES.
If he would just resort to making good movies instead of preaching his BS, he might actually earn a paycheck.
Americans who DO read ancient history would never bother with an Oliver Stone movie. We'd rather watch Ben-Hur.
Or a Mel Gibson flick...
Or maybe the film sucked?
We recognize intellectual dishonesty when we see it.
Whiner.
Another self-appointed cultural and moral arbiter whining that his efforts are misunderstood by the "great unwashed".
Too bad....so sad...
Put together something without a lot of leftist preaching and maybe we'll be interested...but until then......
Isn't it interesting that people like Stone use this country for everything they can get, yet don't miss a chance at biting the hand that feeds them. We can hope that he flounces off to Europe in a huff, to live and work there permanently, but that's probably a pipe dream.
**** And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality.****
I'm throwing myself down on my knees and begging God not to smite all of us for being "moral."
An alternative explanation is that many people, like me, simply won't view anything produced or directed by Stoned.
"Troy" is out in video stores now, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (he directed the WWII submarine thriller Das Boot). "Troy" is set in ancient Greece and did fine at the box office because it moves right along in classic action movie style. The fight scenes are awesome.
Mr. Stone's excuses for the failure of "Alexander" sound hollow.
I think that say it rather well...
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