Went and saw it two days ago and I found that it was quite moving. The patriotic religious and revenge hints were a bit too much for me, but overall I liked it. Just don't know whether it's in good taste to make a film about it. Then again, I suppose it's a way of making sure it is remembered.

What do you guys think about it?

Then again, I suppose it's a way of making sure it is remembered.Yeah, because nobody knew who Alexander the Great was before the movie was released :p

I'm not going to see it for several reasons and one is because of the timing, second is going to be the one-sided view the movie will portrey. Also I don't think it'll be entertaining and worth $10 NZ to go see.

I'm not going to see it for several reasons and one is because of the timing, second is going to be the one-sided view the movie will portrey. Also I don't think it'll be entertaining and worth $10 NZ to go see. Ditto for me too.

Yeah, because nobody knew who Alexander the Great was before the movie was released Who?

I think I will see this when it comes out on DVD, I guess, if I am recommended that I should. But I don't really have that much interest in seeing it right now.

My local paper said the main thing wrong with it (they gave it 2/5 stars) was being released so close to United93 (which they said was by far the superior film). They also mentioned that it was felt too much like a mid day movie and at times felt a tad corny. So I probably won't be seeing it before I see United 93 (if I do get around to seeing that).

I just caught it yesterday. I have too agree that the timing is bad, i don't think the American public needs to be given anymore emotive material about the subject until they all stop support the revenge that is being taken out on inoccent parties across the world. But that is a subject firmly for Dangerous Angles so i will go no further.

As a film i found it a little long (but this is Oliver Stone) and not particuarly unbiased (but this is Oliver stone). I also found it a little arrogant and self congratulatory in its portrayel of American people (but this is Oliver Stone!). Firemen and police men risk their lives the world over, even in the streets of Bhagdad, Police aren't special because they try to save people while putting themselves in danger. Thats their job.
The very fact that you are such a person makes you special as it is.

So i would give it 3/5. Visually stunning, generally well acted if a touch hammy in parts. But its very existence seems like a Republican propaganda mission.

I've heard that it keeps getting poor reviews due to the fact that the entire movie is all about waiting. You're sitting on your butt, waiting for two guys to be rescued. :bad:

I might rent the DVD later on...like in a few years...just to say that I saw it. :rolling:

I watched the 11 September short stories and some of them were touching, from the US and Asian side, however I think I will give WTC a miss.

http://www.amazon.com/September-11-Ken-Loach/dp/B00062J0NA/sr=1-1/qid=1160637075/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4978600-4691947?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

What's the problem with the timing?

Also I don't think it'll be entertaining and worth $10 NZ to go see.What movie theatre do you go to?! Costs me $11 and I'm a Student. *mutters*

Just seeing the preview, it really does look to patriotic and... moralistic (for a lack of a better word) for me to go out of my way to see. Prehaps when it comes out on DVD, or when it's out on TV.