Alexander the Terrible

Sounds like Oliver Stone's cooked up a real turkey with "Alexander." Some are saying the film is a thinly-veiled critique of Bush's penchant for "imperialism", but in any event the criticism is coming from both sides of the aisle. Left-leaning Slate's film critic calls the movie "a sprawling mess, a lox, a three-hour non-starter." And from William F. Buckley's National Review:

This is one of the colossal catastrophes of all time. At a screening on Monday night, during the death scene of Alexander's lover Hephaiston, people were screaming with laughter as Alexander made a big speech while, behind him in soft focus, Hephaiston went into a conniption fit and croaked ... [It] isn't just bad. It's Springtime for Hitler bad.

Ouch.