Posted on 11/10/2004 12:53:24 PM PST by gopwinsin04
Just got home from watching 'Alexander' up at the Directors Guild of America proceeded by a Q & A session with Oliver Stone. Stone said that he just finished the film on Friday and in my opinion it looks like he just rushed out out the door.
In brief, I was stunned by how bad this movie was. Overacting, bizzaro camera work, lackluster battles..God, it was just a mess.
Compared to it, 'Troy' (from this year) is the academy award winning 'Gladiator,' and the 1970's TV series 'I Claudius' is looking better all the time.
Stone may be trying to make a parallel to George Bush's fiasco in Iraq but it's clumsy and heavy handed.
All in all, a shockingly bad film from people who should know better. Wasted talent, wasted money and wasted technology.
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Hamfisted direction from Oliver Stone? No--it can't be!
We saw "Friday Night Lights" too and really liked it.
His next one?
Very true. It looks crummy if the previews are any guide. I usually love period movies. But I told my husband that Alexander looks like it is going to be awful.
True. I think they were working from Roy Thomas' adaptation of Howard, though. I'm not sure if Thomas got any screenwriting credit for the first one (he did for the second) but I believe he was heavily involved.
I found it incomplete, and more outline than substance.
I think, based on my travels, they got King Philip not quite right.
LOL...No, Alex was a lone nut. Arlen Specter attributes the many battle deaths to a single magic arrow, fired from atop a 6-story hillside through heavy foliage...
I said here at FR months ago {http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152058/posts?page=25#25} that he would try and do this when I first heard of this movie and who would be directing it:
".........Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........Will he make this film into a metaphorical essay against Hegemonistic, Expansionist, Colonialist, Imperialist Superpowerism and those mad, power-hungry, berzerk Rulers (like George Bush) that pursue this kind of power like Coppola's THE GODFATHER was a veiled critique against Capitalism?........."
This clown is soooooooooo predictable. ***LOL***
I believe the reviewer was complementing 'I Claudius' and comparing it favorably with todays epics.
I'll wait till some of the other critics go at the film before deciding to give it a look at a matinee.
Alexander the Great invented a method of keeping time so his soldiers could synchronize their plans.
They all wore a piece of cloth on their wrists which was soaked in chemicals. As the day wore on, the band would change colors which would indicate what time it was.
It was known as "Alexander's rag time band".
First half of JFK was great...and accurate...then he got into lionizing Garrison...big mistake.
What I saw, I liked. But you are correct. There could have been some more meat on the bones in places.
Hollywood hasn't had much luck with ancient epics, has it?
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