2004 Directed by Oliver Stone
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Colin Farrell Angelina Jolie Val Kilmer Jared Leto Jonathan Rhys Meyers Anthony Hopkins Jessie Kamm Christopher Plummer Connor Paolo Patrick Carroll Peter Williamson Morgan Christopher Ferris Robert Earley Aleczander Gordon John Kavanagh Gary Stretch Rosario Dawson Féodor Atkine Toby Kebbell Fiona O'Shaughnessy Laird Macintosh Francisco Bosch Neil Jackson Garrett Lombard Chris Aberdein Rory McCann Raz Degan Joseph Morgan David Bedella Show All…
Moritz Borman Jon Kilik Thomas Schühly Iain Smith Oliver Stone Tabrez Noorani Santa Pestonji Matthias Deyle Pierre Grunstein Aslan Nadery Paul Rassam Volker Schauz Kurt P. Galvao Nicolas Bonnell
Jan Roelfs Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat Stéphane Cressend Desmond Crowe James Lewis Kathleen Lorden Kevin Phipps Stuart Rose Lotta Wolgers Abdellah Baadil Claudio Campana Frederic Evard Aziz Hamichi Christian Huband Tom Still
Aurelia Abate Joyce Menger Kilou Picard John Scheele Elliott Jobe Rudi Holzapfel Sébastien Drouin Stephane Ceretti Olivier Pron Pierre Michel-Estival David Allday
Wylie Stateman Jean Goudier Chris David Alek Goosse Bruno Tarrière Frédéric Attal Damien Lazzerini Gréggory Poncelet Julien Perez
one of the best movies ever made about going to college and then getting a job in the big city
p.s. it rules
Since we don't actually know what ancient Macedonians sound like let's each pick a different accent!
I see Angie's gone with the "crazed gypsy accent" while Mr Farrell went with the "vaguely European mumble accent", Val decided on "mostly Californian" and Anthony went for "jolly old British".
*confused face*
THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN 11AM AND 3PM
The film Alexander has just entered its second agonising hour...
Me: "God, this film is awful."
Richard: "It's not. It's just not. There's plenty."
Me: "I think I see where they're going with this."
Richard: "What?"
Me: "Jared Leto is in love with Alexander, and he's looking at him marrying his new wife. So, here's what's gonna happen..."
Richard: "What's gonna happen?"
Me: "Alexander is going to find his wife with her neck slit open in bed, and written in blood on the wall above will be 'MEET ME AT THE MOUNTAIN TOP, so Alexander will have to fight Jared Leto on the mountain where they trained as kids. There will be…
Every movie enthusiast is familiar with the feeling of admiring a movie that everybody else seems to despise. Most of us have quite a few of those. I certainly have my fair share, but the movie that immediately pops into my mind in such discussions is Oliver Stone’s "Alexander".
Most critics panned the theatrical version, the box office was a letdown and it even got 6 Razzie Award nominations. This movie was on almost every level a complete failure. Flawed as it was, I did not quite get why. But then again I was only a teenager, what did I know?
In 2007, Oliver Stone released his Final Cut, which he called "Alexander Revisited". I only got around to watch…
Ultimate Cut
"Directed by Oliver Stone"
Are you EVER.
"Music by Vangelis"
Is it EVER.
A suitably rousing epic that compels despite its issues with script and production, Oliver Stone's "Alexander" provides a full-bodied cinematic experience. Sweeping and, on occasion, stirring, Stone's film appeals as a solid observation of the deeds of a larger-than-life conqueror.
Beginning three centuries before the so-called common era, "Alexander" tells the story of the Macedonian King who led his armies through Asia, piecing together an empire for the ages. The film splits its narrative focus between the youth of Alexander and his conquest of the much of the known world.
Starring Colin Farrell as Alexander, Stone is never able to get under the King's skin. Though the film attempts to pay attention to Alexander's bed-hopping internal turmoil, the audience is…
i am...surprised. i was expecting a heterosexual narrative as it was with 'troy' but they actually added everything...
A jumbled plot with frequent jumps backward and forward in time and action sequences made embarrassingly unwatchable by a terrible score.
November 2018
Scavenger Hunt #44
TASK #20: A film in which one of the actors wears a bad wig!
Some characters are unfortunately underdeveloped and there are other elements that feel needlessly drawn-out, but Oliver Stone’s Alexander has enough good qualities for it to come out a decent enough historical epic, including strong performances, lush cinematography, and rousing action sequences.
no amount of things wrong with it could stop me from loving this as much as I do.
The directors cut is all over the place tho
Mythology and ancient history constructed by a man with no care for or understanding of either. Complete hogwash.
I did not enjoy this. I've never seen a film this long waste this much time before. It was an aggressive waste of time. It's 3 1/2 hours but it is almost devoid of character development. People stand around and talk about freedom and glory but the motivations behind the various characters are never explained. We're also never given enough time to get to know any of the other characters in this film besides Alexander and his mother. Jared Leto plays his best friend and lover but that's not really developed and you don't really care about their relationship. There's another servant boy or something that Alexander forms a sexual relationship with but he just sort of disappears for a…
nathan smith 363 films
recs welcome, added at my discretion. looking for a certain vibe. prestige movies that weren't actually prestige movies, maybe? middlebrow,…
Tobias Andersen 6,544 films
Rules: Generate a number (from 1 to x) via: www.random.org
See how many number of films there are in the…
MundoF 10,102 films
The last few years have not only brought LGBTQ+ films and stories further into the mainstream, but queer films have…
