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[charloween]

So the Star reviewed Alexander today. They gave it one star.

I won't see the film until Friday, but I'm sure that I'll find the paper missed the boat. You don't go to an Oliver Stone-directed sandal-epic looking for an academically complex examination of the whys and wherefores of Alexander the Great's rise to power. Questions like How was a young man able to take over the world? are secondary when you're dealing with blockbusters. Duh. Huge CG armies + random sex + "historically accurate" costuming does not a thinking man's picture make. *shakes head* Silly humans.

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[deleriumd.livejournal.com]

Historically accurate movies... but.. you mean they aren't true?! But Titantic... and Knight's Tale.. YOU MEAN THEY WERE ALL LIES AND NO ONE GETS DOWN WITH THEIR BAD SELF AT DINNER!?

THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!11

BACK TO WINNIPEG!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

You mean... they didn't have Queen and David Bowie and Alan Tudyk in the middle ages? The Titanic sinking wasn't just a crazy metaphor for a loved doomed by a social divide?! GOOD GOD!

[pyratelady.livejournal.com]

You don't go to an Oliver Stone-directed sandal-epic looking for an academically complex examination of the whys and wherefores of Alexander the Great's rise to power.

Good point. But why not? Sounds like a good story to me. But I never saw Titanic, A Knight's Tale or Pearl Harbor either, so what do I know. I also wish Mr. Stone would come up with his own damn stories instead of bastardizing perfectly good historic events, knowwhutahmean?

Now Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -- that was a fabulous "what if?" take on history. Well, historic literature.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a wonderful thing and a beautiful film.

Within the two hours of the film, you've gotta show the sex and violence of the story (not the "boring" psychological analysis and brilliant tactical strategizing) because sex and violence will make back in box office all the dough a studio poured into the epic. What was most astonishing about the review I read is that the reviewer seemed to be expecting more from the film.

It's a pity that studios won't believe that intelligence sells. But that's a whole other rant (aka "senior thesis").