Review

Watched Alexander yesterday. One word: LONG.

I thought the movie would be pretty good, considering there was not much hype about it, I didn't think I would dissapointed if I didn't have such high expectations for it.

The movie started out on a pretty good note. They gave a brief glimpse of his childhood and Angelina Jolie is waaay too hot to be a mom. But then, it sank straight into him being in a battle to conquer Babylon. I was a little dumbfounded there. Weren't they going to explain how he became so passionate about discovering and travelling to new worlds? Nope, they didn't. They portrayed him of being obsessed about expanding his rule rather than being driven by passion. No doubt that this wasn't the intention of the film makers, but after 2 hours I was still left wondering what the hell made Alexander be so great in achieving what he did.

Here's a positive review by the way, http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=18886.
I guess you have to dig a little deeper beneath the surface. No one really knows the truth of his life. But after those 3 hours, I didn't give a fuck.

Also, what is with the overzealous boy-on-boy action? I knew they were going to portray his "sexual preferences"( er, he didn't have any preference), but did they have to go all out on it? There were these moments of him looking at this pretty boy servant in lust that was just plain annoying. They could have turned down the heat a little...

Overall, I thought the performances were pretty good. The battle scenes were a little over the top after a while. Colin Farrell however, does not make a good blonde.

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UCAS all the way. My final six choices ( for now,ergh) are:-

Bath
Cardiff
Manchester
Nottingham
Reading
York

Reason for procrastinating is clear-I'm scared shitless of the outcome of all this. I just found out this week Notts needs a fourth subject just like Warwick. I doubt I will get that one, but I really have no other choice so all fingers are crossed. York was the last minute option. Not as far as Lancaster and slightly further than Manchester. Still not liking the fact that I can't apply ANYWHERE in London, if not I will substitute Notts with City.

The fact that the US dollar is ever weakaning is making my dad's eye twitch. Sigh.