The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Greek Boys in Love

Just got back from a screening of Alexander. Am exhausted from the experience, so the real post will come tomorrow if I get time at work.

In the meantime, I just need to say: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

It's not a perfect movie, not by a long shot. Parts are cheesy, melodramatic, and possibly confusing to people who don't have Alexander's life history memorized.

Nonetheless. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

This particular lifelong Alexander fanatic was quite delighted overall.  More later.

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Greek Boys in Love

Just got back from a screening of Alexander. Am exhausted from the experience, so the real post will come tomorrow if I get time at work.

In the meantime, I just need to say: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

It's not a perfect movie, not by a long shot. Parts are cheesy, melodramatic, and possibly confusing to people who don't have Alexander's life history memorized.

Nonetheless. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

This particular lifelong Alexander fanatic was quite delighted overall.  More later.

Alexander the Review

So here is my slightly more detailed, highly prejudiced review of Alexander.  To show where I'm coming from, I first read Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy when I was 14, and I've been obsessed ever since.  I've been waiting for this movie for a long time, and as a result, I am inclined to be both highly exacting and highly forgiving at the same time.

For a good rundown of ways in which the movie failed, I recommend Roger Ebert's review, which I mostly agree with, and am also greatly amused by.  Who ever knew Ebert was going to be demanding more of the man-on-man lovin'?

This leaves me free to focus on the positive, for lo! I am still squeeful.

This will contain vague spoilers, unless you know absolutely nothing about Alexander's life and career, in which case you have a lot of surprises coming.  I will give explicit details about the slashy parts (which is going to be of interest to a couple of you, I think) in a separate post. 

( A very brief overview )

Alexander the Review

So here is my slightly more detailed, highly prejudiced review of Alexander.  To show where I'm coming from, I first read Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy when I was 14, and I've been obsessed ever since.  I've been waiting for this movie for a long time, and as a result, I am inclined to be both highly exacting and highly forgiving at the same time.

For a good rundown of ways in which the movie failed, I recommend Roger Ebert's review, which I mostly agree with, and am also greatly amused by.  Who ever knew Ebert was going to be demanding more of the man-on-man lovin'?

This leaves me free to focus on the positive, for lo! I am still squeeful.

This will contain vague spoilers, unless you know absolutely nothing about Alexander's life and career, in which case you have a lot of surprises coming.  I will give explicit details about the slashy parts (which is going to be of interest to a couple of you, I think) in a separate post. 

( A very brief overview )