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"Oprah Winfrey can certainly create a best seller when it comes to books, and her pick of the presidential candidates is on his way to the White House. But can she get behind a movie and contribute to its success? 20th Century Fox seems to hope so, because the studio apparently allowed the talk show host to screen an unfinished cut of Australia in preparation for her November 10 show, which featured the film’s stars, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, as well as a live-via-Skype call-in from filmmaker Baz Luhrman. Fortunately for Fox, Oprah raved about the film, and now the media has latched on to the endorsement, creating some much-needed positive buzz for the Oscar-hopeful. Yet there’s a big problem with all the excitement: Oprah’s film recommendations have hardly been sure-fire champs in the past. Case in point: the first title I came upon while searching for Oprah-select cinema was something called
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"Upon watching Alexander, I found myself with a lot of questions, and very few answers. In fact, it has been almost four years since I saw this film, and yet I remain haunted by the many inconsistincies and poor choices which were displayed in the film.I had the unfortunate privelage of seeing this movie in a sold out theatre where I was forced to take in the action from the front row. From that vantage point I watched one of the most uninspired, miserable films I have ever seen. If the constant comments by the audience throughout the length of the film were any indication--I was not alone in my feelings toward this movie.Alexander, as you may recall, was a heavily anticipated movie and rightfully so with its ridiculously large budget and star studded cast. As the film opened, I have to admit, I was hoping for an epic of Gladiator like proportions. Unfortunately, Collin Farrell is no Russel Crowe, and the film did not take very long to unravel.Rather than discuss the plot, whic ... "
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"Eventually Hollywood will learn it doesn’t make sense to spend millions of dollars on a B-movie. It may just take awhile. But if the road towards re-education didn’t begin with Grindhouse, it will possibly start with Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C., the trailer to which is now available courtesy of CHUD.com. The $75,000,000 movie follows a tradition of cheesy Saturday afternoon flicks like 1940’s One Million B.C. and its 1966 remake One Million Years B.C. Of course, back then the B.C. stood for “before computer (effects)” and featured the spectacular — and silly, maybe — visual effects of Roy Seawright and Ray Harryhausen, respectively. Sure, in terms of effects and spectacle, 10,000 B.C. looks cool, just as Emmerich’s
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"It’s easy to understand Oliver Stone’s boyhood hero worship of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered 90% of the known world by the age of 25, and over two million square miles by his death at 33. By most accounts, he did so without the unbridled imperialism and savagery of so many other conquistadors. It’s hard not to admire the Herculean directorial task, orchestrating battle scenes, engaging experts of every stripe: dialogue consultants, historians, animal trainers, military and equestrian coaches. No one could accuse Oliver Stone of dealing in half measures, so why is Alexander so plagued by ambivalence? Sporadic and choppy, dazzling and preposterous. Perhaps Stone was so overcome with devotion that he struggled to make Alexander the man truly accessible. It’s not a whitewash. We see him when troops are resentful, when he makes errors in judgment or lets ego get the better of him. But there’s something flawed about the tone, so bent on grandeur t ... "
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