stop using "old Europe" !

Rating: 2/10 (9 January 2005)

This movie is just bad. This is Alexander at the Caesar palace. Nothing more. It's an insult for all the art of the ancient Greece. (the sculptures are so ridiculous). I didn't know that Greeks were at the origin of this very Versace dress style (i thought it was the opposite). I thought, I must be naive, that the men were not becoming absolute Joan Collins caricatures when they talk about the love they feel for their boyfriends. this movie is all about the vision of Hollywood on the "old Europe". The homosexual relationships must be the same they are today in a gay club of L.A. The Clothes, the buildings must be like they are at Las Vegas. Look at those wonderful hairstyles ! It made me think about all those movies where an American hero come to France or Italy... It's like if Europe had stop in the 50's. but because of information it's less possible so Hollywood take the past and make it American. See Benjamin gates ! We do not have a middle age ? let's import it ! and now with Alexander we have this kind of American propaganda movie (all the "conquer to free" don't remind you anything ? and the hawk !) with horrible stuffs everywhere on the screen. I think that Oliver Stone is an interesting artist but here, it seems that the subject was a little too big for him. I would have preferred the vision of a Paul Verhoven or what Kubrick could have done with this bigger than life story with so much stuffs. Here we have something like what would have been Jeunet making a movie about American independence with everybody talking like they do in "friends" or "ER".