Oliver Stone's "Alexander" is behind the times

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

[twigs]

I would assume from the movie that A did a slow decline into mental illness and alcoholism. I saw a history channel special on him and they implied the same thing. Also the bisexuality. They said that both of his parents were worried about his attraction to boys when he was a teen.

[Proud2BeRight]

I enjoy movies but when I discover that a film has a blatant liberal message, dominated by militant liberal actors, or highly recommended by liberal critics I simply don't spend any money to see it. Maybe these people will get the message when their garbage flops at the box office.

[StrictTime]

The minute I saw the first publicity stills of Colin (Gag Me) Ferrell with that blonde Kentucky Waterfall wig, I laughed my girdle off. Hilarious! Hollywood is so clueless.

Now, if they had cast David Wenham from LOTR (Faramir) and left out the gay stuff, I would be first in line...

[Billthedrill]

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

Well, you could get more explicit I suppose, but at some point the movie only shows in those seedy adult bookstores a quarter at a time. Tough to make a profit that way.

Or so I've heard...

[AmishDude]

“Brokeback Mountain”(2005), starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as gay cowboys

Undoubtedly, they will be eating pudding.

[Spok]

History is filled with incredible events brought about by incredible, but real, human beings. It's a waste of resources to bend a truly earth shaking event into a gay soap opera. Failure of this film is a credit to Americans sensiblities. I hope someday someone sees fit to tell the real story. Maybe Mel Gibson.

[longtermmemmory]

Now if only we can spread the word about this "gay" movie abomination to potential european viewers.

Having this bomb in the EU would just be perfect.

[Thebaddog]

The factors in my mind are: 1. Colin Farrel isn't physically big enough to look the part. And 2. Stone has burned his credibility in the red states.

The other dirty little secret always has been that the main stream "G" rated movies always clean up at the box office with or without press. Kinda makes you wonder what all those marketing honchos really do do with their time.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

What the heck is the matter with these people. Alexander is known for conquering most of the known world, not playkng butt buddies. Who cares who he was prodding. I expected to see some of his military brilliance not who he wished he could poke. How in the world could his sexual preferences have anything to do with how he changed the history and geography of his world. Leave it to the homo loving hollywood elite to force more of this garbage down our throats. And they wonder what went wrong in the election. Simply amazing.

[El Buscador]

Don't bet on any heads rolling. I wonder about the people who put this garbage out

[Antoninus]

Homo-promo is so 2003...

[BossLady]

I got that impression too from books I have read about A. that there were serious issues. Typical of someone with such extraordinary skills in one area is a mess in other areas.

[Antoninus]

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.

Yeah, but the homotheists believe that "whatever they do in their bed rooms is everybody's business"--and you BETTER be interested or else you're homophobic.

[El Buscador]

I saw a documentary on the Discovery channel a couple of weeks ago. It was EXCELLENT. It explained how how came up with the new battle tactics that helped him conquer the know world.

[elhombrelibre]

Someone called Hollywood, "insanity chic." So they'll never figure out that being tolerant of Gays isn't exactly the same thing as wanting to watch them frolic.

[Dante3]

Some 25 Greek lawyers reportedly are considering a lawsuit, according to CourtTV, because he was depicted as homosexual.

[longtermmemmory]

Very true and a number of threads on it here at FR.

This has been actually festering since Stone left Greece about two years ago during his "research". He did not like the facts presented which were contrary to his agenda.

It is not just the false homosexuality allegations, it is the generals fighting in battles that had long died. Obvious geography mistakes, and just plain making up stuff.

If stone had placed machine guns and cannons in this absurdity of a movie it could not have been more inaccurate.

[Inwoodian]

Only a liberal could take the story of a man so powerful, brilliant and charismatic that he conquered the known world and turn it into a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta starring Andy Dick and Liberace.

[longtermmemmory]

The next front on this movie, and other propaganda pieces like this, is to attack their distribution network.

If walmart wants to sell this homosexual movie then there should be a warning label put on it "ie explicit homosexual content" and it should only be available to 18 and over to purchase.