Alas, fortune did not favor &#39;Alexander&#39;
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Alexander the movie managed something that Alexander the Macedonian king never did: It lost a battle. The fight for moviegoers over the Thanksgiving holiday was too much for the
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There are hundreds of wannabe Hollywood star names who could attest to it. That is, inheriting a famous name does not always mean that the path to global acclaim will be easy.
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"Alexander" &#151; Far from great, "Alexander" sporadically lumbers toward watchable, but mostly it's just bad. And we're not just talking kitschy, B-movie bad. At least that would have been fun. We'll talking all-out, big-budget-bomb bad.
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Irish actor Colin Farrell says working with filmmaker Oliver Stone on the epic Alexander was all he dreamed it would be. (Oliver&#39;s) an amazing man.
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Jason Alexander has it on good authority that his job as co-host of the People's Choice Awards on Sunday is unlikely to have a big payoff.
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and it surely is not -- it isn&#39;t for lack of a great story, compelling characters, and a capable director. Really, the
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Thank goodness for Bernard Hopkins&#39; left hand. _Not that I was_particularly rooting for either fighter when Hopkins clashed with Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday night,_but that vicious left
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Alexander the Great may have conquered millions in his march across the Persian Empire 2,400 years ago but moviegoers in North America easily repelled his advances over the weekend.
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one straight, punt-and-fumble encounter at 3 am 30 years ago was enough for me -- but I&#39;m quite aware of the image that goes with having the butch name of ALEXANDER!
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To film &quot;Alexander,&quot; which opens nationwide Wednesday, director Oliver Stone took his cue from the biopic&#39;s subject, Alexander the Great, and set out to conquer several locations around the world.
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If movies are all about the audience identifying with the people on the screen, then Oliver Stone accomplishes the job with &quot;Alexander,&quot; his sprawling, three-hour bio-epic about the Macedonian conqueror of the ancient world.
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It&#39;s tough defending the heavyweight championship, even in this era when the talent level ranges from mediocre to embarrassing.
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An unexpected victor emerged in a weekend that pitted family-focused films at the box office, as &quot;National Treasure&quot; from Walt Disney Pictures - about a treasure
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He might have won that game not so much with his play, as with his presence. Carolina went after him in full force, only they forgot to deal with the rest of the Atlanta Falcons in the proper manner.
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OK, that&#39;s an exaggeration. But to say this has been a bad year for ancient Greek battle films would be an understatement. Still, those who thought the fortunes of sword-and-tunic epics would be salvaged by Oliver Stone&#39;s Alexander were sorely mistaken.
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It was a fine occasion, but it could have been a grand one without a touch of avarice. There were plenty of empty seats here despite the presence of two of the most charismatic sides in the world.
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I DON&#39;T think there&#39;s a big enough slice of humble pie in Berkshire to satisfy my needs this week. Why, you ask? Well I was the bright spark who called for Colin Montgomerie&#39;s exclusion