TimeAndTide
Kage Bunshin No Jutsu
So did Alexander die in a battle, or did he die after drinking too much beer?
whoops, sorry hunAnnegelic said:
I agree with you; I thought it was a great movie.AsyLum said:I think the problem lies in the whole "OGM HOMO/BI SEXUAL" In reality he was, as were many of the greeks, it was the social psyche at the time. To call it a crap movie cos of that would be to call movie about nazis crap cos it had themes of rascism. The Christian groups ive read have signalled the homosexual themes as blasphemous etc, it resonates of the group that tried to lobby to have the Two Towers changed since it referred to 9/11, making this worse is the fact that it was probably a historical fact. Still, i dont think many people nowdays would have the balls to call the greatest military conqueror a 'fag' to his face i dont think.
Most people ARE ignorant of the story of Alexander, i for one found it awesome, and was a good movie based upon his life, obviously any movie that tries to fit a person's life into a movie would have trouble, let alone one who had conquered the known world by his 20's.
The battle scenes were absolutely amazing, capturing the reality of his Companion Cavalry and yes it did go for a while, but that was his life in a nutshell. Jolie played the role perfectly, as did most of the characters.
I like historical epics. So to me, it wasn't. But I can see if you have a short attention span how you may consider it boring.Monkey Butler said:But it was so boring.
Dull? I think not. The narration was not bland, the acting was powerful, the score was moving and apt, so say that the final battle had no build-up is to ignore the rest of the movie, and the ending was what the ending had to be. I'll let you into a little secret -- Hollywood can't change history. While I'm sure you would have preferred an elaborate car chase sequence before Alexander’s death, as I said, history is what history is.Monkey Butler said:Oh fuck off. It was just dull. No tension at all, bland (and bored) narration, a story that lacked any sort of narrative flow, poor acting and score, and the final battle had zero build-up, which led to the absolutely pathetic ending (OK, Ptolemy's last "the musings of an old man" or whatever he said was a nice wink to the audience, but other than that it just fell flat). There were very few redeeming qualities.
Face it, the script sucked and the film sucked.
Actually, speaking of short attention spans, how's Alias shaping up this season? More hot girls, bright lights and fast music? Really cerebral.
Let me guess, you like loud dumb action moviesMonkey Butler said:Oh fuck off. It was just dull. No tension at all, bland (and bored) narration, a story that lacked any sort of narrative flow, poor acting and score, and the final battle had zero build-up, which led to the absolutely pathetic ending (OK, Ptolemy's last "the musings of an old man" or whatever he said was a nice wink to the audience, but other than that it just fell flat). There were very few redeeming qualities.
Face it, the script sucked and the film sucked.
Actually, speaking of short attention spans, how's Alias shaping up this season? More hot girls, bright lights and fast music? Really cerebral.
It seems that way, doesn't it?rumour said:Let me guess, you like loud dumb action movies?
The monkey was ill-treated, wasn't it?Monkey Butler said:Well if it comes down to that I do too, but that doesn't mean the movie's any good.