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Epicurus.com - Alexander - Director's Cut (Full Screen Edition)
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List Price: $12.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Bedella, Jessie Kamm, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer
Directed By: Oliver Stone
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790795201
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 0790795205
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-08-02
Running Time: 167
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-11-24
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Editorial Reviews:
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Academy award winning director Oliver Stone presents a breathtaking new cut of his sweeping epic film, ALEXANDER, the true story of the world's greatest warrior. Using new footage and dramatically reshaping dozens of scenes, he brings to life the overpowering forces and fierce personalities that forever changed history. Torn by the war between his parents (Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer), Alexander (Colin Farrell) left Greece to face massive armies in Persia, Afghanistan and India -- and was never defeated. "Fortune favors the bold" Stone powerfully demonstrates in this bold new film, ALEXANDER DIRECTOR'S CUT. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Oliver Stone
Documentaries
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Customer Rating:
Summary: love the movie, hate the product
Comment: there are three versions of this movie. the theaterical version. the director's cut - which in this case is shorter and censored instead of the opposite. the extended version which is extended. i loved this movie so much i got the extended version. however. it's the director's cut that has the extras. the extended cut is all movie with no extras. doesn't make good marketing sense. not fair. oh i could go out and buy a blu ray dvd player to take advantage of the full package that offers - but i won't.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just a little too long
Comment: I really liked this movie and it played in 1080p.I think they it could have been a little shorter.The battle scene was well,i can't put it into words.I can't think of how men fought and died like that.Thousands and thousands i wonder if there still burying people today that fought there.Why were most of these men gay or is this just in the movie.
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Summary: Great Portrayal of a Great Historical Figure!
Comment: I loved this movie very much, it was a little bit long, but keep in mind to tell a great story like this one you must keep a open mind and sit down and listen.
WARNING SOME SPOLIERS ARE PRESENT
It starts out with the aged Ptolemy I Soter (Anthony Hopkins), a general, childhood friend of Alexander (Colin Farrell) and ancester of the great Cleopatra. He tells the story of Alexander as he remembers it.
He begins to say that Alexander's mother Olympias (Angelina Jolie)was at the wrath of her abusive, drunk cyclopitic husband King Philip ll (Val Kilmer) of Macadonia. She claimed to have been with the god Dionisis and had Alexander with him. I probably would have claimed it too if I was married to a jerk like Philip. She also played with snakes, which I didn't mind because this is probably just me and all but I thought that the snakes she was playing with were really cute.
Anyways moving on, one faithful day, Philip wants to kill an untrainable horse, and young Alexander, who wants to conquer the known world in the future, wants to train this wild horse and keep him. Philip lets him do so, and it turns out that the horse was afraid of his own shadow, and Alexander got to keep him when he tamed the wild thing. This is a true story too, I read it in my history textbook from school. And then he even bonds with his father too.
But years later Philip takes a young wife and impregnates her, and Philip and Alexader get into a huge fight at the wedding ceremony almost leading Alexander into exile. After his father gets assonated, Philip's young wife and child are killed, and Alexander becomes ruler of all of Macadonia and Greece. He goes on to conquring Egypt, Anatola, which they don't show in the film. Then he conqures the big daddy of them all, the Persian Empire! The king of Perisa Darius lll fled like a little coward, amazing!
Then he goes onto conquiring some of India, which he for some reason couldn't conqure all of. Then at the end of the film he dies of an illness. And the empire was split up by his generals into four parts. It just so happens that Ptolemy I got to rule Egypt.
Also beautiful authintic costums, music, film settings and acting. It also goes into telling about his relashionship with his aparant lover and childhood friend Hephaistion (Jared Leto), which to me seemed more like true love then with his Bacterian wife Roxanna (Rosario Dawson), and I mean that women was a total b----.
And last but not least it goes to tell how power corrupted him just like it did to his father.
But this is a good movie, that is if you are interested in the ancient world along with war. I recommened this movie to just about anyone who can sit through a long movie on a very boring day.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE ON BLU-RAY
Comment: THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER ON BLU-RAY WITH THE high def.
also the extended edition add a lot more to the story especially the romance between colin and jared scenes.
recommend the blu-ray very highly. you see more detail of the cities and they sparkle like jewels.
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Summary: Flip a coin
Comment: Director Oliver Stone's film version of the life of Alexander the Great, came out to dismal reviews and worse box office. There were controversies over its portrayal of the bisexuality of its protagonist, as well as the poor screenplay, stilted dialogue, and many other things.... We get the requisite battles, the CGI armies of huge hordes, but Stone's camera work is not what it was a decade or more ago. There is very little that sets this apart as an Oliver Stone film. It's a generic pseudo-epic that makes the great epics, like Spartacus, or Lawrence Of Arabia, seem that much greater. I guess there's just a simple lack of passion in the whole endeavor. What saves the film from being total trash, however, is Val Kilmer's relationship with Alexander- mostly as a boy (Connor Paolo), but also with the older Farrell. Kilmer's best moment comes when he demands buying a horse at half price if Alexander can tame it. The son, of course, tames it, in generic rite of passage form, but the key that makes this otherwise trite scene work is how Philip will to risk his son's life merely for a bargain. It shows why the two men will bond, but never be truly close.... In short, Alexander fails not for many of the reasons the major critics roasted it (although to be fair, I don't know just how different the filmic and DVD versions are) but because it has too much breadth, and not enough depth. Accordingly- while not terrible, it's not great. Flip a coin over whether it's passable and either way you're probably right.
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