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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 1902009" data-attributes="member: 2012">I kind of like this movie too, so you're not the only one who gave it 7 out of 10. It was reallly long and I can see how some would view the movie as having lack of focus.The way I look at it is that people (including me) sometimes have expectations of how a character, or time period, should be portrayed. Now, that's always a bad thing, but directors like Oliver Stone don't give a rats *** what we expect. He does what he wants, the way he wants, and if nobody likes it, too bad.For me, I didn't have a whole lot of expectations going into this movie. All I wanted was a movie that was true to the time period, as I didn't have a whole whole lot of knowledge about Alexander the Great, other than he marched an army across Asia, conquering all he could.Bad accents didn't register, neither did any supposedly horrible acting, and I wasn't squirming in my seat due to the homo-erotic content. Why? Because the movie depicted a different time period, a time before Christ. (I could say more, but that would be too political and/or religious.) The whole snake thing, now that was really creepy, but was appropriate too.Plummer was unnoticable, Jolie was ok, Farrell and Hopkins were good, Kilmer was excellent.The battle scenes made the movie for me, especially the fight against the elephants. I liked the part where Alexander is staring at the mountains, musing how the world is much bigger than was thought. I liked the part where Philip is showing (young) Alexander the painting in the cave.Anyway, 7 out of 10.[EDIT]Both Troy and Gladiator were much better, IMO. (Gladiator still rules. Troy is a close second.)[/EDIT]Cheers!KF72</blockquote>

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