DVD : Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391143536
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Running Time: 213 minutes
Sales Rank: 3970
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Now available is an all new and completely unrated version of Oliver Stone's incredible epic film, loaded with nearly 40 minutes of additional never-before-seen footage, that takes the film to a new level of realism and intensity. Restructured and expanded into two acts with one intermission, Oliver Stone's vision is delivered the way he originally conceived and intended. With the new, unrated and graphic battle scenes and unadulterated sensuality, it's the movie you couldn't see in theatres, now available on DVD for the very first time!
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For better or worse (and in this case, it's mostly for better), Oliver Stone's Alexander Revisited should stand as the definitive version of Stone's much-maligned epic about the great Asian conqueror. Following the DVD release of his previous Director's Cut, Stone offers a video introduction here, explaining why he felt a third and final attempt at refining his film was necessary. Essentially, he's using this opportunity to re-create the "road show" format of the Biblical epics of the 1950s and '60s, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time (with an intermission at the two-hour mark) including 45 minutes of previously unseen footage. Stone has also significantly restructured the film, resulting in substantial (if not exactly redemptive) improvements in its narrative flow. Alexander (played in a torrent of emotions by Colin Farrell) is dying as the film opens, his final moments serving to bookend the film's epic story, which incorporates flashback sequences to flesh out the Macedonian king's back-story involving the turbulent battle of fate between his father, King Philip (Val Kilmer) and his scheming sorceress mother Olympia (Angelina Jolie, ridiculous accent and all), who insists that Alexander is literally a child of the gods.
In Stone's final cut, epic battles remain chaotic (although Alexander's strategy is somewhat easier to follow, with on-screen titles indicating left, right, and center during his army's greatest maneuvers) and the ultra-violent battles are more graphically gory than ever (hence their "unrated" status). The animalistic lovemaking of Alexander and his barbarian bride Roxana (Rosario Dawson) is slightly extended (with Dawson as ravishing as ever), and Stone's additional footage also improves the overall arc of Alexander's relationship with his closest generals and male companions, although his most intimate homosexual encounters remain mostly discreet. As Alexander Revisited makes clear, the film's weaknesses remain unavoidable, but Stone deserves credit for recognizing how a longer running time, and more disciplined narrative structure, would bring Alexander closer to the respect it never earned from critics and filmgoers alike. This is unquestionably a better film than it used to be, leaving us to wonder why it took three separate efforts to shape Alexander into its best possible presentation. --Jeff Shannon
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there are three versions of this movie. the theaterical version. the director's cut - which in this case is shorter and censored instead of the opposite. the extended version which is extended. i loved this movie so much i got the extended version. however. it's the director's cut that has the extras. the extended cut is all movie with no extras. doesn't make good marketing sense. not fair. oh i could go out and buy a blu ray dvd player to take advantage of the full package that offers - but i won't.
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I really liked this movie and it played in 1080p.I think they it could have been a little shorter.The battle scene was well,i can't put it into words.I can't think of how men fought and died like that.Thousands and thousands i wonder if there still burying people today that fought there.Why were most of these men gay or is this just in the movie.
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I loved this movie very much, it was a little bit long, but keep in mind to tell a great story like this one you must keep a open mind and sit down and listen.
WARNING SOME SPOLIERS ARE PRESENT
It starts out with the aged Ptolemy I Soter (Anthony Hopkins), a general, childhood friend of Alexander (Colin Farrell) and ancester of the great Cleopatra. He tells the story of Alexander as he remembers it.
He begins to say that Alexander's mother Olympias (Angelina Jolie)was at the wrath of her abusive, drunk cyclopitic husband King Philip ll (Val Kilmer) of Macadonia. She claimed to have been with the god Dionisis and had Alexander with him. I probably would have claimed it too if I was married to a jerk like Philip. She also played with snakes, which I didn't mind because this is probably just me and all but I thought that the snakes she was playing with were really cute.
Anyways moving on, one faithful day, Philip wants to kill an untrainable horse, and young Alexander, who wants to conquer the known world in the future, wants to train this wild horse and keep him. Philip lets him do so, and it turns out that the horse was afraid of his own shadow, and Alexander got to keep him when he tamed the wild thing. This is a true story too, I read it in my history textbook from school. And then he even bonds with his father too.
But years later Philip takes a young wife and impregnates her, and Philip and Alexader ... Read More
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THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER ON BLU-RAY WITH THE high def.
also the extended edition add a lot more to the story especially the romance between colin and jared scenes.
recommend the blu-ray very highly. you see more detail of the cities and they sparkle like jewels.
Rating:  -
Director Oliver Stone's film version of the life of Alexander the Great, came out to dismal reviews and worse box office. There were controversies over its portrayal of the bisexuality of its protagonist, as well as the poor screenplay, stilted dialogue, and many other things.... We get the requisite battles, the CGI armies of huge hordes, but Stone's camera work is not what it was a decade or more ago. There is very little that sets this apart as an Oliver Stone film. It's a generic pseudo-epic that makes the great epics, like Spartacus, or Lawrence Of Arabia, seem that much greater. I guess there's just a simple lack of passion in the whole endeavor. What saves the film from being total trash, however, is Val Kilmer's relationship with Alexander- mostly as a boy (Connor Paolo), but also with the older Farrell. Kilmer's best moment comes when he demands buying a horse at half price if Alexander can tame it. The son, of course, tames it, in generic rite of passage form, but the key that makes this otherwise trite scene work is how Philip will to risk his son's life merely for a bargain. It shows why the two men will bond, but never be truly close.... In short, Alexander fails not for many of the reasons the major critics roasted it (although to be fair, I don't know just how different the filmic and DVD versions are) but because it has too much breadth, and not enough depth. Accordingly- while not terrible, it's not great. Flip a coin over whether it's passable and either way you're ... Read More
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391143536
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Running Time: 213 minutes
Sales Rank: 3970
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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