Alexander's dramatic soundtrack

Advantages: beautiful music to a great film, very touching, cheap
Disadvantages: carelessly made booklet, weird extra track

...Today I will tell you all about the soundtrack to the epic movie Alexander by Vangelis What is it? This is the soundtrack to the movie "Alexander" by Oliver Stone. The movie came out in 2004 and recieved mixed review - some loved it, some hated it. But most reviewers agreed on the soundtrack, composed by Vangelis, being a work of art. Who is Vangelis? Vangelis is a greek composer and a pioneer regarding electrical music. He has started to compose electric music that sounds like a whole epic orchestra, putting a lot of feeling into it. He was born in 1943 and surprisingly also composed the music to "Bladerunner". What's "Alexander"? "Alexander" is a movie about Alexander The Great. About 350 before Christ, he was the son of the Macedonian king Philip. After his father died, he became the king of Macedonia, later...

morticiaaddams 29.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (Original Soundtrack) - Vangelis

ALEXANDER: Director's Cut

Advantages: A must see for all lovers of long historical epics.
Disadvantages: Could have shown more detail in the battle scenes.

...This is an impressive looking production with sumptuous costumes and sets and a rousing score from Vangelis. The Director's Cut includes extra footage, as is to be expected. Oliver Stone chose a largely European cast for the film, with Colin Farrell as Alexander and Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy. In this film there are several Irish actors, including Farrell, so the main accent is of course Irish, which makes a change from the (by now) traditional British accents in film epics. It would be refreshing if a director had his historical cast adopt an accent authentic to the time and place i.e. in this case Macedonian or Greek. Val Kilmer, who plays Philip, Alexander's father, does change his, but to an Irish one like Farrell. Angelina Jolie, who plays Alexander's manipulative mother, is the only one who attempts a Mediterranean delivery...

Thormod 07.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (Director's Cut) (DVD)

Was he really that great? - Alexander

Advantages: Good story, Loads of factual information
Disadvantages: Nearly 3 hours long!

...Alexander Running Time: 175 Minutes Released: 7 January 2005 Directed By: Oliver Stone Certificate: 15 Cast: Alexander - Colin Farrel Hephaistion - Jared Leto Ptolemy - Elliot Cowan Philotas - Joseph Morgan Antigonus - Ian Beattie Cassander - Jonathan Rhys Meyers Leonnatus - Garrett Lombard Crateros - Rory McCann Roxane - Rosario Dawson Old Ptolemy - Anthony Hopkins Scribe - David Bedella Child Alexander - Jessie Kamm Olympias - Angelina Jolie Philip - Val Kilmer Nurse - Fiona O'Shaughnessy Young Alexander - Connor Paolo Young Hephaistion - Patrick Carroll Wrestling Trainer - Brian Blessed Young Nearchus - Peter Williamson Young Cassander - Morgan Christopher Ferris Young Ptolemy - Robert Earley Young Perdiccas - Aleczander Gordon Aristotle - Christopher Plummer Cleitus - Gary...

Gangsta-ash 05.02.2008 (12.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Alexander (Special Edition) (DVD)

* The Bunny House *

Advantages: Funny , Plot
Disadvantages: May Send Out Wrong Message To Young Girls!

...Recently I have been swapping DVDs with my friend ; I've been borrowing her 'up-to-date' movies and she's been watching my 'rom-coms'. One of the DVDs which I borrowed from my friend was a film called ' The House Bunny'. The House Bunny is an American romantic comedy film released in the United Kingdom on 10th October 2008. This film stars Anna Faris , (who's previous films include , Just Friends and My Super Ex Girlfriend). Running time of the movie is ninety seven minutes (seven minutes over one hour and a half). Shelley (Faris) is a playboy playmate living a luxury life in the playboy mansion. Soon after her twenty seventh birthday , she is told that she is now too old to be a playboy bunny and so it 'thrown out' of the playboy house. Feeling upset and lonely , she tries hard to fit in with other girl groups , although soon...

xdonzx 21.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of The House Bunny (DVD)

A King Isn't Born, Alexander; He's Made.

Advantages: Some nice locations and looks quite spectacular
Disadvantages: The Script, The performances, the direction, the length, pretty much everything

...There was something about Alexander that cried out to me to avoid it. When it arrived in the cinema I thought I don't really want to see it but it might be quite good. Then I started thinking that maybe after Phone Booth Colin Farrell would be picking better roles for himself. I suppose by now I should realise when to listen to that initial voice that tells me it'll be terrible. Time and time again though I ignore it and end up sitting through some pretty terrible films and this certainly ranks up there amongst them. In Oliver Stone's biopic of the great Macedonian king Alexander (Colin Farrell), he attempts to educate the audience of a great ruler. During his rule he conquered 90% of the known world from his Macedonian base. He achieved the majority of this by the age of 25 and this film concentrates mainly on his campaigns in Persia...

Andy.mack 14.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (Director's Cut) (DVD)

The perfect country getaway

Advantages: Fantastic setting, excellent staff, and so relaxing!
Disadvantages: Be careful of extra costs

...To treat my dear old mum for her 60th Birthday I booked us both into the Alexander House Hotel and Spa for an overnight Sunday stay, and what a treat for us both it was. Now I've never stayed in a posh hotel before, so my judgement may be a little biased, but I've never felt so well looked after as I did at the Alexander House. From the moment we arrived until we checked out on Monday morning we were treated like queens and were greeting with smiles by every member of staff we came across. Setting The setting for the hotel itself was stunning - situated in the middle of the West Sussex countryside, in a grand old house, parts of which date back to the 17th Century. The grounds looked delightful, and if it weren't so cold I'd have been very tempted to make use of the complimentary wellies and take a long stroll. Our room...

laura4qt 18.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Alexander House, Crawley

Alexander the Great Waste of Time

Advantages: Interaction between Alexander and Haphaestion (all 3 minutes of it)
Disadvantages: Overacting, inappropriate music, horrible accents, too many flashbacks, too long of film, ... the list can keep going on and on.

...the whole movie spouting rubbish in what's been described perfectly by other reviewers as a 'fruitshop Romanian accent') speak with an Irish accent! What gives with that? I mean we all know Colin Farrell is an Irish boy, but even he can do another accent, so why did the producers decide that all Macedonians would be speaking with a lilt, to be sure to be sure??!! Then there's the dialogue - we have not one but two narrators to the film, first of all Anthony Hopkins as the older version of Ptolemy mythologises Alexander and spouts all sorts of guff about how 'great' he was, but this is let down by what we actually see of the man - there are no great inspirational moments or even moving moments from this character other than those with his boyfriend Haphaestion (these scenes are actually some of the best moments of the film, which is...

Rahielli 14.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (2004)

The great Alexander, brought down to real life

Advantages: Some good ideas and sets
Disadvantages: The plot was plodding and somewhat unrealistic at times

..., and the battle near the Ganges). The music, done by Vangelis (think 'Chariots of Fire'), was superb. As entertainment, the film was a good evening's outing, and I didn't find myself squirming in my seat as much as I thought I might at the prospect of a three-hour film. The computer-generated scenes in Babylon, and the on-location settings of Morocco and Thailand were glorious cinematography. The character of Alexander in history is one of mythology, one that was so powerful that it inspired the Roman leaders from Julius Caesar forward to global conquest (an irony of history is that the Roman Empire, which supposedly covered the 'known world', didn't cover half of Alexander's empire). Colin Farrell's performance here was not one that is inspiring; his speeches to the troops lack the kind of power that an Olivier or Brannagh might have in...

frkurt 12.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (2004)

house rules

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: have to wait for next seriwes

...House is a fantastic series and I missed the first one but got in to watching this in the second series, so I rushed out to buy the first series box set and I could not stop watching it, it is so addictive. If you love medical dramas then this is one for you as it's not all your normal diagnosis, each episode goes through a new medical dilemma they have to try and solve and they are not your usual colds and virus's. House is a medical programme with a diagnosis to be made, so each episode has you playing doctor trying to figure what has caused the patient's medical condition. House is an American drama and is about Dr Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie he is a fantastic doctor, unfortunately he does not seem to have the patience for patients, and Dr House is a Doctor who says what he wants and does what he wants regardless of other...

jo_field26 27.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of House

A Wooden Album by Crowded House?

Advantages: 'Woodface' includes some of the most sublime love songs ever written
Disadvantages: It's all a bit much and much the same; the tracks that do dare to be different, don't fit

...Although I will always consider Crowded House to be one of my ?Dad?s bands? I have to say that I?ve developed strong feelings for many of the groups songs over the years. Teenagers are funny like that; we?ll go off on our own tour of music, claiming that Eminem and Dr. Dre are ?da bomb? before realising it was The Beatles and folky bands like Fleetwood Mac and Crowded House that vied for our earphones all along. On a couple of occasions, my Dad has bundled my Brother and I ? along with my Mum ? into the car and driven about two hours away to Nottingham in a vague attempt to educate us in terms of music. By doing so, he was making us watch the Finn Brothers, a song writing duo that have had a fairly rocky past. Neil Finn ? the lead singer and metaphorical leader of Crowded House ? and Tim Finn were once in a band called Split Enz who...

MizzMolko 23.10.2009 · Read review
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