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lamia_primeAnyone have a spare Mac laying about unloved & unwanted? I'll even give you money.
The local art college offers Paint Shop courses, but everything is taught on a Mac, so until we have one for hubby to do his homework on, there's no chance of his being able to edumacate hisself and get a desk job.
Watched possibly the worst movie of the year last night, if not the decade.
"Alexander", from Oliver Stone. It was so incredibly appalling that I gave up early and went to play computer games. Props to hubby for sticking through the whole thing. Of course, the first thing is WTF ARE YOU WEARING? Shaped and fitted chitons with necklines? Are you STONED?? 5th C dancers in BODICES??
*SMACK*
Secondly, who knew that the Macedonians of Phillip & Alexander's time spoke with Irish accents? huh - the things you learn! And Scots accents! And Angelina Jolie, to show that she was a "foreign" woman, spoke with some sort of Eastern European accent. I think. Maybe.
Third, Colin Farrel with a blond wig? Pussy. He spent the entire movie looking like he was waiting to be called to the principal's office - even Val Kilmer (as an over-the-top Philip of Macedon) told him to stop looking so worried all the time. His speeches were uninspiring, and his motivation unguessable.
A pox on the writer. A different pox on Stone for dragging this abomination out for hours longer than needed. A third pox on the editor who let him get away with it.
The battle scenes were sooooooo artsy and contrived (ooooo dust clouds! ooooo jittery combat a la "Gladiator" oooo!) that even they seemed to last too long. I admit that at least the battles weren't all squeaky clean white teeth and clean swords. Blood was everywhere, limbs sheared off, rocks meeting skulls, poor elephant getting his trunk hacked off (a really disturbing image for some reason). And omg the most incredibly beautiful horse for Bucephalus EVER. And the Persian archers looked good.
But the money spent on this endless whiny painful abomination could have been better used to build a school or six, to offset the national debt, to fund health care. ANYTHING but this!!
Anthony Hopkins, Brian Blessed, Angelina Jolie, not a shabby cast. I hope they got paid well to have their names associated with this crap excuse for entertainment. It may play better with no sound, just to look at the pretty colors, but I dunno.
The local art college offers Paint Shop courses, but everything is taught on a Mac, so until we have one for hubby to do his homework on, there's no chance of his being able to edumacate hisself and get a desk job.
Watched possibly the worst movie of the year last night, if not the decade.
"Alexander", from Oliver Stone. It was so incredibly appalling that I gave up early and went to play computer games. Props to hubby for sticking through the whole thing. Of course, the first thing is WTF ARE YOU WEARING? Shaped and fitted chitons with necklines? Are you STONED?? 5th C dancers in BODICES??
*SMACK*
Secondly, who knew that the Macedonians of Phillip & Alexander's time spoke with Irish accents? huh - the things you learn! And Scots accents! And Angelina Jolie, to show that she was a "foreign" woman, spoke with some sort of Eastern European accent. I think. Maybe.
Third, Colin Farrel with a blond wig? Pussy. He spent the entire movie looking like he was waiting to be called to the principal's office - even Val Kilmer (as an over-the-top Philip of Macedon) told him to stop looking so worried all the time. His speeches were uninspiring, and his motivation unguessable.
A pox on the writer. A different pox on Stone for dragging this abomination out for hours longer than needed. A third pox on the editor who let him get away with it.
The battle scenes were sooooooo artsy and contrived (ooooo dust clouds! ooooo jittery combat a la "Gladiator" oooo!) that even they seemed to last too long. I admit that at least the battles weren't all squeaky clean white teeth and clean swords. Blood was everywhere, limbs sheared off, rocks meeting skulls, poor elephant getting his trunk hacked off (a really disturbing image for some reason). And omg the most incredibly beautiful horse for Bucephalus EVER. And the Persian archers looked good.
But the money spent on this endless whiny painful abomination could have been better used to build a school or six, to offset the national debt, to fund health care. ANYTHING but this!!
Anthony Hopkins, Brian Blessed, Angelina Jolie, not a shabby cast. I hope they got paid well to have their names associated with this crap excuse for entertainment. It may play better with no sound, just to look at the pretty colors, but I dunno.
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Hmmmmm
Date: 2005-09-27 03:38 pm (UTC)It must be the subject, cause we recently watched the Burton version. It was no different - same/but differnt costuming issues (1950's issues like zippers in the chitons - WTF! - they are chitons!!!
Burton got costume changes every other scene - each more gaudy then the one before - and the barn door helm took the cake.
I'm gonna opt that it's the subject more than anything else.
Oli has been off the mark on several folms in a row. Perhaps he simply needs to go back to school.
OY!
Re: Hmmmmm
Date: 2005-09-27 03:42 pm (UTC)Had to explain to hubby that the one pal of Alexander was correctly wearing a helm shaped like a floppy felt hat, so can't wanna strangle the costumer entirely, but what's the point of getting the teensy esoteric details right and the major ones wrong?
They should be made to hand back their membersehip in the sekrit seamstresses society over this one...