Alexander

[simostorm]

Anyone seen it? Any good?

 

[supersoniceagle]

I haven't seen it but I've heard its one of the biggest flops in history

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I haven't seen it but I've heard its one of the biggest flops in history

It hasn't done well, but "biggest flop in history" would be exaggerating a fair bit, I don't think it's in Heaven's Gate or Ishtar territory.

 

[Godz Illa]

3 hours have never seemed so long. I watched it last night, and my head still hurts from the overwhelming barrage of boredom. Not even Rosario Dawson's spectacular rack could redeem it. Avoid at all costs.

 

[Generalzod]

The reason why the film did not do well in America was due to its homosexual content. In Europe though its a different story.. in Greece it broke box office records.
If you love your History the movie is excellent....

 

[Once Dead]

In Greece it broke office records? Of course it would, its a big budget movie which revolves around a portion of Greek history.......the homosexual content wasn't the ONLY reason why it didn't do well in America - its probably because not everybody wanted to watch a 3hr "epic" that they had already seen a year ago in the form of Troy

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

dude, Troy is about something COMPLETELY different...I mean, I see where you're coming from, but yeah...

anyway, I agree a bit with both sides of the story here. It is a poor movie, but when I went to it I had to endure the incessant childish laughter and scorn of most of my fellow moviegoers, directed at the entirely appropriate, true to life and very tame "homosexual content". I think this is a major reason for it's failure.

Godz is right though. The movie is extremely long, a bit cheesy and goes absolutely nowhere, and really has nothing to say. And Rosario Dawson is absurdly hot.

 

[UndertakerMike]

haven't seen it but I gerd it is ordinary

 

[canberra_raiders2k2]

minus the gay scenes..war scenes were good.

 

[Bowhunter]

I found it interesting because it's historically accurate, but I thought Stone went too far with the sensationalism. If I wanted to see gay porn, I would've just rented a copy of Top Gun.

 

[Once Dead]

dude, Troy is about something COMPLETELY different...I mean, I see where you're coming from, but yeah...

anyway, I agree a bit with both sides of the story here. It is a poor movie, but when I went to it I had to endure the incessant childish laughter and scorn of most of my fellow moviegoers, directed at the entirely appropriate, true to life and very tame "homosexual content". I think this is a major reason for it's failure.

Godz is right though. The movie is extremely long, a bit cheesy and goes absolutely nowhere, and really has nothing to say. And Rosario Dawson is absurdly hot.

Troy was only referred to because of its similarities as a big budget historical movie.....i don't know much about history but i do know that they aren't the same stories lol

 

[SP]

i saw the previews of it last night when i watched Meet The Fockers, it didnt look that good imo

 

[Dragon Fanatic]

Worst ever. So boring, Such a poor effort.

 

[Generalzod]

Worst ever film?????
Lucky I went and saw it for my self rather then rely on these so called experts in movies.
Its a Great film....
As it was narrated by Anthony Hopkins it was finished with the Quote :Megas Alexandros which means Alexander the Great in Greek.
Good onya Oliver Stone you've done a good job.

 

[grouch]

As it was narrated by Anthony Hopkins it was finished with the Quote :Megas Alexandros which means Alexander the Great in Greek.

Thanks for that.

That actually surprised me though, the movie had me believing that all Greeks were actually Irish. Even Jared Leto's character had an Irish accent. Jared Leto is American. So that means he was putting on an Irish accent to play a Greek character. Hilarious.

 

[Generalzod]

Actually it suprised me as well, but the film Gladiator had a lot more accents.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Rosario Dawson naked makes up for the 2 1/2 hours of boredom

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

The reason why the film did not do well in America was due to its homosexual content. In Europe though its a different story.. in Greece it broke box office records.
If you love your History the movie is excellent....

It will be a box office hit in Aussie becos of the homosexual scenes

 

[Generalzod]

Rosario Dawson naked makes up for the 2 1/2 hours of boredom

She quite a woman.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

The reason why the film did not do well in America was due to its homosexual content. In Europe though its a different story.. in Greece it broke box office records.
If you love your History the movie is excellent....

It will be a box office hit in Aussie becos of the homosexual scenes

If's thats the case then it should break all records in Auckland and beat LOTRs.

Troy was a shocker and still got a lot of good reviews which just shows a lot of critics are bent.