Oliver Stone's "Alexander" is behind the times

Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2004 | Ben Shapiro

[goldstategop]

People are sick of all the gay worship in the culture. Its gotten out of hand and there's a backlash.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I thought Alexander was behind Haephaestus?

[Prime Choice]

Meanwhile, most of the critics complained that “Alexander” failed because it didn’t do enough with Alexander’s sexuality.

And Leftists wonder why Americans rejected their party at the polls on November 2nd.

Here's a Clue-by-Four for 'em: Alexander the Great did not earn his title by being an indecisive foppish nancy-boy. He earned it by being a brilliant military strategist. Duh?

[Semper Paratus]

I thought Alexander was behind Haephaestus?

He found him in the end.

[wideawake]

So will “Brideshead Revisited”(2005) starring Jude Law and Paul Bettany as love interests.

(1) In the book they were not lovers. One of them was a repressed pansy who had a crush on his friend, while the friend was straight and fell in love with the pansy's sister.

(2) Whether or not they respect the book or twist it into some sodomy circus, most Americans are not going to want to see a talk-heavy parlor drama about a decaying British noble family in the 1930s and 40s.

[escapefromboston]

This Homotheism is getting on everyone nerves. Most people would say "whatever you want to do in your bed room is your business" for the most part, but everyone has their limits.
I recall someone on another site saying how he didn't like the homo eroticism in Alexander and then was attacked for being a homophobe (he didn't say he hated homosexualists but that he just didn't want to see it in the film).

I may get this when it comes on DVD because Rosario Dawson is naked in it though. Hopefully those parts will be separately chapter-ed so I wont have to watch the whole film.

[mewzilla]

Note to Hollywood: welcome to the backlash you inspired. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Heh heh heh. Hooray for Hollyweird.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I guess being in the rear meant something different in Alexander's army.

[SkyPilot]

I thought Alexander waath juth FABULOUS! Oooth!

[SF Republican]

I thought Alexander was behind Haephaestus? geez..I just cleaned my computer screen, now it's covered with coffee spray

[WildTurkey]

People are sick of all the gay worship in the culture. Its gotten out of hand and there's a backlash.

Did you see Noel on TNT this week? They plan to release it on a "disposable disk" for Xmas. $4.99 and it will last all of 48 hours ofter breaking the seal.

[Semper Paratus]

most Americans are not going to want to see a talk-heavy parlor drama about a decaying British noble family in the 1930s and 40s.

Except the Public Broadcasting fans.

[Dante3]

Interesting.

[ArGee]

Here's a Clue-by-Four for 'em: Alexander the Great did not earn his title by being an indecisive foppish nancy-boy. He earned it by being a brilliant military strategist.

Well, I never! Don't you know that Americans are preoccupied by sex? Don't you know that sex sells? Don't you know that the most important historical fact about any historical figure is not how they made their millions or how they conquered their empires or how they changed their cultures but how they nailed their boyfriends?

Get with the program. We don't care if Jesus died for our sins, we just want to know if He ever had sex with James or Mary Magdelene?

At least, that's all we care about if we're liberals. If we have lives outside of our genitals we care about important things.

Shalom.

[wideawake]

True.

The sad thing is that it is a truly great work of literature by the last great English novelist and it will be ruined in a two-hour movie.

Additionally, it was made into a multipart miniseries in Britain years ago, a series that was true to the book and with an unsurpassable cast.

Anyone who is truly into this sort of thing will have at least seen the miniseries when it ran several times on PBS or rented it on DVD.

[rllngrk33]

People are sick of all the gay worship in the culture. Its gotten out of hand and there's a backlash.

For a long time I've been wishing that the gays and other assorted perverts would just go back into the closet and leave the rest of us alone.

Don't they understand that we don't like having that kind of crap shoved down our throats?

[longtermmemmory]

The mediots also gloss over the fact that there is no evidence of any homosexuality demonstrated by Alexander. in fact, the evidence is to the contrary.

This goes much further that one Oliver Stoned movie. This notion of revisionist history to usurp ancient Greek history is deliberate to normalize perversion as established by present day ivory towers homo-liberalism.

[Question_Assumptions]

The Incredibles was a pretty, uh, incredible movie.

[GSWarrior]

Did this Shapiro kid even see Christmas With The Kranks? It is a piece of garbage.