Alexander

[Buliwyf]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/alexander/

Looks like it might be good. Certainly has an all star cast.

I sense that studios are looking at history for their genre of films featuring epic battles like The Lord of the Rings (especially TTT, and ROTK)

So far there has been:

Gladiator
Troy

And soon there will be:

Arthur (instead of medieval it takes place in Roman times for some reason)
Alexander (some historians argue that Alexander the Great was gay by the way)

What's next:

Julius Caesar?
Cleopatra?
Anthony?

[SavageParrot]

Originally posted by Agent-Commando
Arthur (instead of medieval it takes place in Roman times for some reason)
Alexander (some historians argue that Alexander the Great was gay by the way)

Arthur was never supposed to be in medieval times but in and around the fifth century in the immediate aftermath of the withdraw of the Romans c.410AD. Bearing this in mind it is actually the most historically correct representation of the story yet presented even if it is still nonsense.

Oh and Alexander was very definately gay male lovers and all, no argument necessary it's all right there in the sources.

If you ask me the film looks a bit pony, but then I hate cgi, historical epics and Oliver Stone so I am perhaps not the best person to make a judgement.

this should be good oliver stone has made some great movies in the past

I won't watch the trailer: I refuse to defile my computer with QuickTime. I don't feel like scrubbing my hard drive with steel wool after reformatting.

Not much of a trailer IMO

[Chacal]

Hollywood. Bleh.

[Colonel Ingus]

Dead on Savage!

Absolutely right about Arthur.

Many militaries in the time of Alexander practiced homo-sexuality. The Theban elite wasn't called "The Band of the Hand" for nothing!:D

And pooh on Oliver Stone and his revisionist history.

And I have to agree with Chacal about Hollywood. You want to learn history? read a book!

[King]

Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
And I have to agree with Chacal about Hollywood. You want to learn history? read a book!

Or if you dont want to learn history, watch porno... not much acting needed and you can find the best part of life being filmed... not all these stupid battle scenes. WAR, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Support the "other" hollywood!

[JimmyTango]

I find it funny that ever since JFK, Stone has been ripped as this 'revisionist history' director. All history movies, tv shows, books and even teachings are in some form revisionist.

What I do not understand with the knocks on Stone is that he clearly said that JFK was based on a book that he beleived to be the truth. Big deal, now all of a sudden he is this revisionist history director. He even states that he considers his political films to be first and foremost dramas about individuals in personal struggles(which Nixon had down in spades). I understand many of his films are controversal, but a lot of it is people taking them literally.

Wall Street is one of the best movies to come out the 80's.

Alexander? I dunno, I never thought Gladiator looked good, but it turned out to be.

I am really interested to see Garden State: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/garden_state/internet_exclusive/

Zach Braff wrote it, directed it and stars in it.

[Buliwyf]

let's not pan the movie before anyone sees it, that' just being ignorant