"alexander" gets slated

[M@ttitude]

.... Alexander who ??

The Deadly!!

[Aberdonian Stu]

First Mr Pitt in a short skirt...now Colin Farrelly...
Myself + female friends have been looking forward to it for awhile
BUT one of my housemates does a very good impression of Alexander as a Dub.

"I'll bleedin burst ya...wa did youse say bout me Maaaaaa"

I'd be sceptical of the quality of that if they're Corconian. No offence to Langhers but there's a few in my course and their version of the Dublin accent is truly awkward to listen too, almost as bad as my Cork one

[Duncan Gardner]

Belated New Year to all. I have just left the cinema after watching the movie right through. It took me nearly a week...

Thumbs down to my date and guide, foot.ie's own Davros. The slapheaded satrap failed to alert me to his scene- Alexander taking tribute from the Persian princess in Babylon. Apparently, baldie in a mini-skirt,sandals and Latino footballer wig was on screen for about 1.5 seconds

It's not as bad as the Yank critics said. Farrell's OK, a bit wooden in the first half but good showing the increasing claustrophobia as they conquer further and further from home. As for gay nookie, there isn't really any. Jared Leto too busy with his passable Oirish accent.

The worst parts are Alex's Ma and 'mott playing it less Ryan's Daughter than
Carry on meets Turkish Delight advert...

They should have cut 30%, dropped the snake charming and Aristotle's cameo. The battle scenes overlong though quite well shot.

But worst of all there's no Gordian knot! That's like an Irish film without priests, gombeen men or moonlit shots of the Ha'penny bridge

[CollegeTillIDie]

I believe the Macedonians have Irish accents on purpose to differentiate them from the Greeks or so I think I read. Though reasonably Hellenic the Macedonians were seen as somewhat barbarian and un-Greek by the Greeks and the language spoken by the Macedonians was not quite the same. Being in English I think they gave them Irish accents to differentiate.

Yes because nowadays the principle language spoken in the FYR Macedonia is Macedonian, a Slavic language closely related to Serbo-Montenegrin, Croatian and Bosnia-Herzegovinian.

[the 12 th man]

Er,Dont slag it too much..........they somehow allowed yours truly onto set........& made it fleetingly into 2-3 scenes.......may be more if the DVD is its proposed length of 4.5 hrs!

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May also make it into 'Closer' also out this week.....

so whats the life of a film star really like then davros,is it all glitz, glamour and fast women ?.

[the 12 th man]

............& remembering to lose specs.& watch on set

any chance we'll see them on a table or similar in the backround somewhere in the movie




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[Duncan Gardner]

Mick Lally actually plays the horse dealer (nice touch!) who sells Alexander's father the famous Bucephalus. Actually one of the best scenes from the early part of the movie, though as I hinted they could have dropped his childhood altogether.