Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Personal Iskandar Notes

This evening, we saw the much anticipated Oliver Stone film Alexander. Surprisingly, this film is in fact a comedy, and it is on this that I base my RPNs this evening.

.1. Like myself, you were probably unaware of the fact that Alexander and his G-12 Unit were all Irish. It’s a subtle nuance, one only picked up on if you attend this film and listen to their voices. The secret’s out and the Greeks and the Egyptians must deal with the fact that it has always been the Irish who ruled the world.

.2. Angelina Jolie plays one creepy mother in this film. She looks fabulous in eye-liner and snakes and no one could figure out to which country her speech impediment, accent if you prefer, belonged. I don’t think she was Irish, but see the movie and then let me know what you can come up with.

I love Angelina; she is my favorite actress. Completely unmatched.

.3. Everybody in the audience wishes for Jared Leto’s character to die; he plays Alexander’s lover, who Alexander always hugs really closely and dearly and sticks his face in his hair.

.4. When he does finally kick it, Alexander is waxing philosophic about something much too important to pay any real attention…but the audience can see that Jared is freaking out in the background (Alexander was one seriously self-centered dude).

.5. Many individuals in this film were of the no-sex gender. Most of the time, and with the Irish brogue in my ear, I was trying to figure out “…is that a guy or a girl?”

.6. Alexander’s entry into Egypt and the fact that he made Iskandaria was of no value to Oliver Stone, for it was barely referenced in this film, titled Iskandar.

.7. Oliver Stone really has to lay off the hard drugs, because he was telling a story that none of us really understood; not even the guys behind us who must have been on some sort of smack (& whose comedic timing was more entertaining than the Irish on the screen).

.8 There was some definite tension between Val Kilmer (Alexander’s poppy) and Angelina Jolie (Alexander’s mommy). The tension wasn’t the good kind; in fact, it was so bad that it turned into some sort of mischievous ‘spat’ between two three year old children and made the audience roar with laughter.

.9. Colin Farrell looked fabulous in a skirt, but had some massive hair issues throughout the entire film. Someone give the man a comb.

.10. Tamer Hagras would have looked better in the skirt, and would not have had hair issues, am most certain.
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