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November 27, 2004

Update: Oliver Stone's Movie Still Sucks

Not even the New York Times will come to his aid:

...

Now Oliver Stone has Alexander the Great, the Macedonian tyrant who cut a bloody swath through the ancient world to no obvious end other than, if Mr. Stone's big, blowsy movie is to believed, get away from his kvetch of a mother.

...

As the young marauder kills and enslaves peoples from Egypt to India, Mr. Stone repeatedly returns us to Olympias, snakes coiling around her body and chastising her absent son in a bewildering accent, part Yiddishe Mama, part Natasha of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" fame: "You don't write, you don't call, why don't you settle down with a nice Macedonian girl?" or words to that effect. Rarely since Joan Crawford rampaged through the B-movie sunset of her career has a female performer achieved such camp distinction.

...

This is the costliest, most logistically complex feature of the filmmaker's career, and it appears that the effort to wrangle so many beasts, from elephants to movie stars and money men, along with the headaches that come with sweeping period films, got the better of him. Certainly it's brought out the worst in terms of the puerile writing, confused plotting, shockingly off-note performances and storytelling that lacks either of the two necessary ingredients for films of this type, pop or gravitas.

The reviewer whines a bit that Stone doesn't castigate Alexander enough for being a conquistador, so, you know, he's a bit of a horse's ass. But still.

Rotten Tomatoes Update: Only 14% fresh. Sounds like a perfectly vile film.


posted by Ace at 01:13 PM
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Decent battle scenes, if not to the Braveheart standard, and even Kate was drooling over Angelina.....

Posted by: SGT Dan on November 27, 2004 02:51 PM

I read in the paper today that the movie is opening up in Europe ... and Stone is hoping/anticipating better reviews over there. I searched, but I'm kinda anal, and I already threw the paper away (it might have been yesterday's.) Anyway, he says some tripe regarding how he makes "difficult" movies .. obviously they are just over our heads or something.

Posted by: Carin on November 27, 2004 03:24 PM

Oh, I found it online (it's an AP story- this is most of it) :

Alexander" got a lukewarm reception from critics in America, said Thursday he thought the three-hour epic would get a better welcome in Europe.

Stone visited the Stockholm International Film Festival to pick up a lifetime achievement award and promote "Alexander," which was having its European premiere in Stockholm.

"I think one of the reasons I am being honored here in Sweden is that (Europeans) tend to see me a little differently than they do in the U.S.," Stone told reporters.

Posted by: Carin on November 27, 2004 03:27 PM

"I think one of the reasons I am being honored here in Sweden is that (Europeans) tend to see me a little differently than they do in the U.S.," Stone told reporters.

The Euro perspective resulting from cranial/rectal insertion no doubt

Posted by: BrewFan on November 27, 2004 06:23 PM

Did u catch this choice Stone quote: "Alexander would have gone after Osama bin Laden. I’'m sorry, but Kerry was right."

Posted by: jeff on November 27, 2004 06:29 PM

There's a classic erudite smackdown of Alexander by Victor Davis Hanson over at his blog: http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson112704.html

Tag line: "Alexander the Great is third-rate Cecil B. Demille in drag." Nice.

Posted by: See-Dubya on November 28, 2004 12:38 AM
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