who cares!
Posted on 11/10/2004 12:53:24 PM PST by gopwinsin04
History provides such fertile ground for epic films, it really makes me mad when Hollywood has to trash the truth with it's drug induced notion of 'art'. (Although, I did finally break down and rent The Alamo and it wasn't nearly as bad as its marketing suggested.)
Yes it does, and that alone is worth the price of admission. Beautiful woman.
>I'm trying to remember the good Oliver Stone movie
He had a hand in "Conan the Barbarian." But that was pretty much Milius all the way.
who cares!
Martie Scorsese is probably going to win for 'The Aviator' as a career achievement award if they don't give it to fattie as a protest statement.
I have a buddy whose hangup with it is Jamie Foxx as a QB. The movie is not based in reality. What Stone film is? Maybe I am crazy (no maybe about it actually) but I thought Pacino's speech at the end was pretty good. I thought Jamie Foxx's character was funny. I thought LT was convincing (go figure.) It was good junk. Let's put it that way. That's the only Stone film I can think of that I liked at all. I like Dennis Quaid, too.
I wonder how much they pushed the "Alexander was a studly gay guy" angle. I pegged this one as being an agenda movie from the few previews I saw.
Say what you want, the football movie was decent. Not great, but decent.
Saw "The Incredibles". Excellent!!!
Colin Farrel is a bitch
"I AM AL PACINOOOOOOOOO!!!! AND I AM ACTING!!!! HOOOO-AHHHH!!!"
Yes, but Oliver stone desperately wanted to show that Alexander had a homosexual relationship, with a whole bunch of sex scenes, because of it's historical accuracy.
If she wears less clothing than that in the alexander I would go see it.
A good football movie. The very best: "Friday Night Lights".
It's awesome.
I have "I Claudius" on DVD. The production values are a bit threadbare, but I think of it as a stage play. Much of the acting an writing is first rate.
That was the reviewers language, not mine. The AICN site often writes reviews from a first person perspective, it can get confusing.
I liked 'Rudy' as well, a modern day classic.
OUCH!
and I have actually been to King Philips Tomb and to Pela where Alexander was born (in Macedonia, Greece).
Oliver Stone actually went to Greece to collect information and was offered much of the correct history of Alexander. This of course was contrary to the bastardized history of western universities.
Too bad really, I might have considered seeing it at some point. O well Oliver stone rides again.
Perhaps the OTHER two alexander movies currently being made will get it right.
Toast the review and the reviewer. I'll wait to see what the audience reports to the lists and the messageboards. If they like it, I'll probably like it too. Couldn't be worse than The Alamo. Or, could it?
Colin Farrell and Jared Leto And Rosario Dawson in a love triangle, where Leto and Dawson compete for Alex's attention. I think I'll give it a miss.
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