Hey, 'I Claudius' is classic.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.
Interesting that one reviewer slammed on the score for putting an electronic sound in a period movie. The composer (Vangelis, who indeed did "Bladerunner"), did the same in "1492" and "Chariots of Fire" -- winning an Academy Award for the latter effort.
I bought the score, but I am giving this film a wide berth.
Despite Brad Pitt's raunchy politics, I have to say I liked "Troy".
I Claudius? I Claudius was,make that is great.
Pick a rainy Sunday and you are good to go for 13 hours.
You mean to say that Oliver Stone actually made a BAD movie, No Way!
that's too bad, I was looking forward to it (even with reservations about any movie by stone), as I enjoy classical stories in movies. I liked Troy, despite (some fairly major) textual unfaithfulness...but then I realized that was my stupid initial gripe about the LotR movies too, and decided just to shut up and enjoy it :P
Do they play up the gay angle?
Hey, 'I Claudius' is classic.Stone will see none of my money...
Castro lover...Bush basher
I knew that if Stone tried to make this movie a paralell to his political views, then this movie was going to be crap. Well, apparently he could not help himself.
Stone has CIA assassins springing out from multiple points to shoot Alexander and hide back in the bushes then get the government to cover it up.
I'm betting 5 to 3 Alexander meets his fate stuck in the fever-swamp quagmire of Mesopotamia, having failed in his unilateral attempts to conquer the oil-fields of Iraq and Persia.
Am I right?
I generally like these historical epics and the battle scenes. So, with a couple of marginal reviews, call me "undecided." Then, I have to check to the "Hollywood commie pinko factor." Did anyone associated with thise movie actively support Viet Cong John, did anyone loudly badmouth the President.
This is not a "must see" flick, at least for me. If there is a blocker, I'll not see it, not by myself, not with my wife and not with any of the adult kids (some may make their own decisions). This is how we must respond to the Hollywood cancer of neocommunism. Certainly, they have the same freedom of expression as an individual as I do. When the start using their celebrity to influence others, then, we have the absolute right to attack that celebrity.
It may be that the best way to set up this process is to set up a site and list each movie as it approaches release and then allow an open forumn, as we have here, to allow true Americans to point out the excesses of anyone associated with the flick. Elia Kazan? Fine! (I know, I know) Barbra Streisand? I'll pass!
Dunno how far I trust this reviewer, since "I, Claudius" was a terrific series! -- with great actors and a very smart script. So if he doesn't like that, I don't know what he *would* like.
The man-on-boy thing may creep a lot of people out -- but in actuality, it was extremely common in that era, and not looked down upon. (There's a famous Persian poem from a later era that starts, "There's a boy across the river with an arse like a peach/But alas, I cannot swim!") And Persian men did wear eyeliner then.
Dunno how authentic Angelina Jolie and her humongo-lips are to that period. But noone seems to be complaining about that! :)
I can't remember how accurate it was historically but it was a good movie. I bet much better than this one.
What do you expect? It was directed by the traitorous Oliver Stoned.
Does he have a second archer on the grassy knoll of Mesopotamia?
Hamfisted direction from Oliver Stone? No--it can't be!
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***