Oliver Stone’s ‘Waterloo’ – Brent Bozell, not a movie critic but rather a normal person, writes a review of Oliver Stone’s mega-flop “Alexander”—an erstwhile great story, ruined by a Hollywood liberal’s socio-political quest to normalize gayness, and Hollywood-style liberalism. And the people? They aren’t buying the tripe.
One paragraph in Brent’s column is so revealing of liberal-left mendacity, even in commerce: When you see the review quotes in newspaper ads, it’s even worse. They’re flat-out Oliver Stoned. In one ad appearing in the New York Times, we read Richard Roeper of Ebert & Roeper declare the movie to be “Wild … Glorious … Entertaining.” There’s a reason for those ellipses. It’s not exactly what he wrote. The full sentence: “It’s just a wild, glorious, wacky mess that I found entertaining.”
Oliver Stone has been out of the limelight for a long time, having gone five years between major theatrical releases since the 1999 football film “Any Given Sunday.” The delay could be due to his turning slightly crazy, including an October 2001 panel discussion where he suggested Sept. 11 happened because the Hollywood studios are run by six “princes” that wouldn’t let him make a film about Martin Luther King. Christopher Hitchens spoke for many when he summarized that Stone had “lost it.”
In November, Stone proved Hitchens’ point by releasing “Alexander,” as in Alexander the Great, the Macedonian conqueror. Given the movie’s subject is one of the most exciting personalities in the history of the world, I thought that surely, surely Stone wouldn’t … couldn’t … ruin it. After suffering for one hour and 40 minutes and knowing I was barely halfway through this torture, I, too, almost lost it and walked out.
What a chariot wreck of a movie…
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