Alexander the (not so) Great fails to conquer America&#39;s homophobes
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It has been ridiculed by critics and shunned by cinema-goers but the latest film from the controversial director Oliver Stone has still managed to raise hackles across the US.
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Oliver Stone says he thinks his historical epic Alexander will receive better press in Europe after poor US reviews.
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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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ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERED the known world - from Greece to India in the fourth century BC Now, heâs getting a $155 million film version of his life by Oliver Stone and starring Colin Farrell.
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With Alexander mortally wounded in the first round, and Christmas With The Kranks not tickling enough funny bones, last week&#39;s champ National Treasure held on to its position with an impressive $32 million over the Thanksgiving weekend.
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Although he lived 2,300 years ago, Alexander the Great may have something to say about current American politics. Oliver Stone's "Alexander" has rekindled interest and prompted a wave of books, TV documentaries and magazine articles about the young warrior-king, who conquered most of the known world by leading his armies from Greece to the Middle East and across to Asia and India.
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As an ancient warrior, Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world. As a Hollywood icon, he had trouble winning over a few hundred Athenians.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Alexander," Oliver  Stone's ode to a Grecian warrior, rides into battle Wednesday,  when the R-rated epic about the young conqueror will face a  phalanx of films with broad family appeal, including the  Thanksgiving holiday weekend's other newcomer, the Tim Allen  comedy "Christmas With the Kranks."
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At a whopping $150 million, his bloated, boring &quot;Alexander&quot; is anything but great. It&#39;s a pathetic tribute to a military genius who by the time of his death at 32 had amassed an empire that stretched across
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Los Angeles, Nov 29 - Director Oliver Stone&#39;s historical epic movie Alexander has failed in its bid to conquer the box office, entering the US film charts only at number six.
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The expected tension going into &quot;Alexander&quot; was how well Oliver Stone&#39;s own artistic megalomania would be balanced out by his sophisticated historical intellect.
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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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A great botch of a movie that never engages either plot or characters, &quot;Alexander&quot; is a stupefying disaster, the grand turkey of this holiday season so far.
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Controversy over Oliver Stoneâs depiction of Alexander the Great as a bisexual returns the filmmaker to the familiar role of historical revisionist.
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Like the great Macedonion conqueror in the upcoming Oliver Stone   flick Alexander, Warner Bros. is plotting a new strategy in the   battle for Oscar glory.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Both Democrats and Republicans show their discomfort with homosexuality -- and their willingness to use anything for political gain -- in the firestorm of debate surrounding comments about Vice President Dick Cheney&#39;s lesbian daughter.
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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