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Oliver Stone laments 'Alexander the gay'
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Posted on 01/01/2005 8:03:33 AM PST by BobL
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This has to rank among the dumbest marketing decisions in this Red-State year. I don't go to many movies these days, but I was planning to go to this one, until finding out there there was a political agenda behind it. If you took out the gay scenes, this movie could have easily been a top contender - and, other than a few historians, who would have cared.
I just have to wonder how long the studios are going to put up with this garbage - making a real expensive, top quality film, and then letting the director sabotage it.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:03:33 AM PST
by
BobL
To: BobL
Having Angelina Jolie in the film and making the lead character gay is about as dumb of a film making move you can make.
To: Always Right
To: BobL
"Kids weren't comfortable with men who hugged, Wasn't it rated 'R'? I guess they market to 'kids' anyway.
How terrible of us to be more interested in Alexander's conquests than his love life.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:08:52 AM PST
by
eccentric
(aka baldwidow)
To: BobL
and well-known stars including Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer.Sorry..I have never heard of any of them. Hollywood doesn't get a dime of mine.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:09:47 AM PST
by
Voltage
To: Always Right
Oliver Stone is one of the worst directors in Hollywood. He soared to fame with his military hating movie "Platoon"--and has been downhill ever since. Anyone see the jumbled, confusing, and horrible "The Doors?"
Awful movie.
Now he wastes $200 million by making a movie even worst than "Christmas with the Kranks."
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:12:16 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: BobL
He just can't admit that he makes lousy movies. All he is doing now is making excuses...
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:12:18 AM PST
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Hollywood director Oliver Stone is lamenting the poor box-office performance of his latest film "Alexander," citing the homosexuality of the lead character as one of the detrimental factors.
DUH! People are not going to pay money to see revisionist history mixed with homosexual perversion.
If you want on/off the list let me know.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:12:53 AM PST
by
DirtyHarryY2K
(''Go though life with a Bible in one hand and a Newspaper in the other" -- Billy Graham)
To: BobL
Hey Oliver Stone, enjoy your dustbin! But make make lots of room for Michael Moore. You Hollywidiots!
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:13:04 AM PST
by
evolved_rage
(Should have been subtle--Oyster and Snails.)
To: BobL
Oliver Stone laments He's sad, too bad.
Oliver Stone needs to get another life. Maybe if he went to live among evangelical christians for a while. Then he could make a movie called "Dances with Sheep".
Except that he would probably make the christians in his movie all gay.
To: BobL
Yet Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" was criticized by some liberals as a sort of homoerotic glorification of sadomasochism, go figure.
To: BobL
This was but just one of the movie's problems, but as far as the sexuality goes, Stone put too much emphasis on it. And yes, the gayish scenes were creepy. Most people, no matter which state they live in, don't want to see that.
Though I don't always agree with him, Victor Davis Hanson does an excellent job of pointing out just how Stone went wrong in both his presentation and focus on Alexander's sexuality, and his lack of emphasis on more interesting aspects to the Macedonian's incredible life.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:16:15 AM PST
by
Aetius
To: BobL
They called him Alexander the gay. That's horribly discriminatory, Oliver Stone: Speaking the truth is not discriminatory.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:16:39 AM PST
by
Tax Government
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To: BobL
Mrs Drango and I saw Aviator yesterday. Almost walked out, but we were to numb with sleep. Worst movie of the decade.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:19:18 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: BobL
"Kids weren't comfortable with men who hugged, a king who cries and expresses tenderness," he added. Because everyone knows that only homosexuals can cry and express tenderness, and the only time men might hug is when they have designs on each others ass. Stone is an idiot.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:19:44 AM PST
by
spodefly
(My typing doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be spelled correctly.)
To: eccentric
"Wasn't it rated 'R'? I guess they market to 'kids' anyway."
You're right about the R rating, but I never got far enough to check that.
But think of this. A Walmart worker will spend a couple of years in jail for stealing a $10 DVD, whereas Oliver essentially stole $100M from his production company by portraying Alexander as gay. And Oliver is still considered a "Great Director" by the MSM.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:20:46 AM PST
by
BobL
To: BobL
I disagree with the idea that the gay stuff ruined the movie. Remove it all and I still hated the film. I think it was a huge mistake to cast Colin Farrell as Alexander. He's just not a convincing leader. And the way it was sequenced was HORRIBLE! The way they took you from boyhood to battle scene, then threw you back and see his rise to power was completely pointless. And all the accents! Jeez! Jolie was what, Russian? And that was the most black Asian wife I've ever seen!
To: BobL
I still don't buy that the guy was gay.
I've never seen the evidence. Someone always says "there's all kinds of Greek citations showing he was gay."
But then they never provide them. I want to see them.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:22:04 AM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
To: BobL
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:23:15 AM PST
by
RtWngr
(Being tolerant of the intolerant is pretty stupid actually.)
To: Aetius
"This was but just one of the movie's problems, but as far as the sexuality goes, Stone put too much emphasis on it..."
Well stated post. A smarter move may have been to cut out the cuddles (as I understand the movie), and just use some winks and clever camera angles - keep the audience guessing (if they even cared). At least more Red-Staters (and like-minded Blue-staters) could have tolerated that.
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posted on
01/01/2005 8:24:29 AM PST
by
BobL
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