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caddymanJust watched Alexander on DVD.
My, my, but doesn't it drag? And of course, being an Oliver Stone movie, Alexander can't just die of illness and exhaustion, he has to be done in by his generals. Very much the curate's egg of a movie: I enjoyed scenes; Christopher Plummer is always good value, as is (usually) Anthony Hopkins. Angelina Jolie clearly had an ageing portrait on the wall of a cave somewhere, but didn't do too badly. The girl from the Clio advert was unrecognisable.
Colin Farrell can't act, and the ancient Macedonians were all Irish. All barbarians were Russian and at no time was it clear what was going on. At two hours forty, the film is about three hours too long. A lot of the footage should be salvaged and given a decent travelogue voiceover by Michael Palin.
I am glad I didn't see it at the movies.
My PC clock tells me that it's now BST. I think it's lying - my digital radio insists that it's still GMT. I am in temporal limbo.
My, my, but doesn't it drag? And of course, being an Oliver Stone movie, Alexander can't just die of illness and exhaustion, he has to be done in by his generals. Very much the curate's egg of a movie: I enjoyed scenes; Christopher Plummer is always good value, as is (usually) Anthony Hopkins. Angelina Jolie clearly had an ageing portrait on the wall of a cave somewhere, but didn't do too badly. The girl from the Clio advert was unrecognisable.
Colin Farrell can't act, and the ancient Macedonians were all Irish. All barbarians were Russian and at no time was it clear what was going on. At two hours forty, the film is about three hours too long. A lot of the footage should be salvaged and given a decent travelogue voiceover by Michael Palin.
I am glad I didn't see it at the movies.
My PC clock tells me that it's now BST. I think it's lying - my digital radio insists that it's still GMT. I am in temporal limbo.