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[rymenhild]

I attended a free preview showing of Alexander tonight.

Thoughts of the not-particularly spoilery variety:

1. I could stare at the sets and costumes forever. (This does not mean that there was anything wrong with the occasional absence of costume.)
2. Angelina Jolie is actually good at playing a beautiful mad fifty-year-old woman.
3. There is no nonsense about Achilles and Patroclus being cousins in this film. Alexander's love for Hephaistion is completely surtextual, as is his lust for Bagoas.
4. The filmmakers should have trimmed about an hour from the final cut, mostly in the flash-forward scenes narrated by the future emperor of Egypt. The film as stands is an interminable 173 minutes.

Comments

[emidala.livejournal.com]

#1. ♥ your icon.

#2. so no spoilers set aside, should I see it? it won't make me start killing people?

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[prosewitch.livejournal.com]

The real question is... was it worse than King Arthur? Should I drag a fellow intellectual friend so we can mercilessly mock it when we're not drooling over the eyecandy? Should I even bother going back and rereading some of the historical sources on Alexander that I recall liking, or will the movie just make me regret it?