Friday, November 26, 2004

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.

2 Comments:

Blogger J. A. MacDuff said...

Springtime for Hitler bad? Well, coming from someone who had the pleasure of seeing Nathan Lane miraculously sub-in for the lackluster Richard Dreyfuss at the last post, that would at least be worthwhile. Everyone should have the pleasure of seeing that number in full force, with a sheepish Hitler singing "Heil to Myself".

As with any movie, I have to reserve judgment. Troy got terrible reviews partly for excluding an explicit role for the Gods (though not so terrible, admittedly) which was the aspect of the movie I found most intriguing.

One of the reasons to look forward to a North American Christmas. Though the new Hoffman/Tomlin film, "I Love Huckabees" looks genius. Existential comedy? Bring it.

November 27, 2004 at 9:11 AM  
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