'Alexander' Review (Oliver Stone, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer) Its 'Shockingly Bad..'

AICN ^ | 11/10/04 | Morarity

[cicero's_son]

Stone may be trying to make a parallel to George Bush's fiasco in Iraq but it's clumsy and heavy handed.

Hamfisted direction from Oliver Stone? No--it can't be!

[Iluvpopcrn]

We saw "Friday Night Lights" too and really liked it.

[ssaftler]

I'm trying to remember the good Oliver Stone movie

His next one?

[DestroytheDemocrats]

"You can tell how bad the movie is just from the preview."

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.

[Fedora]

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.

[longtermmemmory]

I found it incomplete, and more outline than substance.

I think, based on my travels, they got King Philip not quite right.

[O Neill]

Does he have a second archer on the grassy knoll of Mesopotamia?

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...

[DoctorMichael]

Stone may be trying to make a parallel to George Bush's fiasco in Iraq but it's clumsy and heavy handed.

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***

[mikrofon]

Alexander the Grape

[gopwinsin04]

I believe the reviewer was complementing 'I Claudius' and comparing it favorably with todays epics.

[gopwinsin04]

I have much the same criteria in deciding to go and see these historical epics, the significant other will no doubt want to see Colin Farell etc.

I'll wait till some of the other critics go at the film before deciding to give it a look at a matinee.

[yarddog]

That reminds me of a true story.

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".

[Keith]

First half of JFK was great...and accurate...then he got into lionizing Garrison...big mistake.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...more outline than substance.

What I saw, I liked. But you are correct. There could have been some more meat on the bones in places.

[Ciexyz]

Hollywood hasn't had much luck with ancient epics, has it?