Thread: Bad casting

And don't give me the "what do you know about Greek Mythology?" reply, please! I live at 1300 km from Athens, I live and breath Ancient history and did so for as long as I know. :D

If you want to see Alex getting it on with Bagoas, then watch the Final Cut. In aspects of no holds barred with the ratings, and also a disregard for time limits, this is the best version Oliver Stone has released of "Alexander".

I own that one version as well, but did not like the pacing of some scenes for some reason. Maybe need to revisit, because I dismissed it right away after watching it once. It isn't about Alex having sex with a man, or any man; it is about depicting his relationship with the supposedly true-and-only love in his life: Hephaiston. I think Stone had the chance to make a glorious movie that would be an indisputable classic like Platoon or...

Jolie wasn't so annoying. Her Russian accent was getting a little on my nerves but she was generally OK. Her age is correct as well. I read somewhere that women in ancient Greece were given to marriage when they were still in their early teens, around 13-15, so Jolie who was 30 at the time could play Alexander's mother. However, Farrell was seriously awful and he was only one year younger than Jolie, yet playing her son. I'd...

The ridiculous decision to cast Angelina Jolie as Alexander's mum completely ruined the believability of those scenes for me. Ok, they may have had children at a young age at that time but Jolie is only a year older than Farrell?!! Slapping a poncey blond wig on Farrell does not give the illusion of a mother-son relationship, and Angelina hardly looked any different from the way she did in the earlier scenes. I kept wondering whether the...

I agree. Appalling decision (as well others).

I loved the cast, with the exception of alexander, I think they were awsome. Their pretty much what I imagine them to be like.

Her snakes were better actors than both of them...