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 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (Original Soundtrack) - Vangelis

Alexander is an ordinary film about an extraordinary individual

Advantages: Starry cast, impressive locations
Disadvantages: Muddled story, poor battle scenes

...This film seems to have become the underdog of the recent cycle of Hollywood epics. Director Oliver Stone was so stung by the initial critical response that he released a radically re-cut version on DVD. And when that didn't change the critics' opinion, he went back and re-cut it again. I watched this third version. Not having seen the earlier versions I can't comment on the changes, but I can say that I enjoyed ?Alexander? much more that I expected and definitely file it under brave but flawed. There are several challenges with making a film about Alexander the Great. Firstly is that he had an mind-bogglingly eventful life. When you conquer virtually the whole known world by age 25 and explore further than any ruler has since, that's a lot material to organise into a story. Even this three hours plus cut has to summarise a fair bit...

gazhack 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (Director's Cut) (DVD)

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 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Alexander (2004)