[quidnunc]

A Greek and an Italian were arguing about who had contributed more to civilization, the ancient Greeks or the Roman Empire.

The Greek says "We discovered the joy of sex,"

"Yes," says the Italian, "but we introduced it to women."

[Rummyfan]

Colin Farrell's portrayal of the man whose very name evokes all that is mighty about Hellenic manhood, so they had heard, was less swaggering champion than a sort of Balkan Graham Norton, mincing his way across the globe on an exhaustive search for a nice young man to share interior design tips and settle down to some fireside embroidery

LOL! I haven't seen Alexander and wasn't planning to see it, but each item I read about it makes it seem ever more awful. May have to see it just for the laughs and schadenfreude over the end of Stone's career.

[drt1]

And San Francisco introduced it to children :-)

[quantim]

Far from winning hearts and conquering minds

Oh geez, I thought the Kerry election stuff was over.  Oops wrong thread.

[HipShot]

You made my day. Thanks. :)

[RippleFire]

bump

[UCANSEE2]

I didn't know it was not common knowledge. I had always heard that the greatest warrior in history was homosexual.

I am not condoning this movie, I haven't even seen it.

If Stone made a big deal about it, that was just a waste of film.

[plangent]

They didn't call it Greek Love for nothing.

Of course, San Francisco wasn't around at the time.

[Citizen James]

In retrospect, maybe this movie was good revenge for the crappy 2004 [anti-american] summer olympics...

[dagogo redux]

I saw it. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Singularly bad. Beyond bad. And torturously long.

But then, somewhere about two and a half hours in, the the overwhelming idiocy of the thing starts to provoke uncontrollable laughter. It's sooooo camp, so bad it's good, so bad it's - dare I say it? - GREAT!

[Cronos]

Alexander the Great, so we are told, held sway over most of the known world by the time he was 30

Bull-crap --> Alex conquered a large chunk of what the Greeks thought was the civilised world -- they had heard of Indian civilisations, but not the Chinese, so that can be forgiven -- and WEstern Europe was not one of them.

He never did manage to move into India -- the news of the gigantic Ganges based Magadhan army scared off his troops who rebelled.