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tried to round up a Classics posse to get belligerent with after Troy, but most of them were happy enough to just look at the pretty man-flesh on display
Oh, yeah ....
Oh, the story! Yeah, liberties everywhere, unforgiveable ...
Look, Orlando's nekkid ...
I mean, Angela Lansbury played Lawrence Harvey's mom in Manchurian Candidate, and she was only three years older than him, but they gave her some decent middle-aged makeup and it really worked.
The makeup helps, but a large part of that was just her face. I've seen her in roles where she's 21, playing her age, and still looks almost the same as she did in The Manchurian Candidate, and not too far from how she looked on Murder, She Wrote.
Wars and queers, indeed.
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I'm so glad that my Oliver Stone hate-on has removed all chances of me ever seeing his version of Alexander. It sounds like it's saving me even more sorrow than I'd thought. (The bombast and etc., not the gay. I'm all for Alexander as gay. OK, bi.)
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Oh, there isn't one. It's just one of those things that people say about Classics. Offensive, yes. A wee bit true? Also yes.
Well the Macedonians were sort of the Irish of the Greeks...
And the Irish are the blacks of Europe. So, say it now, and say it loud, "I'm black, and I'm proud!"
And the Irish are the blacks of Europe.
Ha! I should maybe bring this up the next time my government is voting in favour of egregiously racist immigration policies, yes?
Sorry, I went to an angry place that people who don't keep up with Irish politics cannot understand.
It was the Farrah hair that let me know what to think of this movie. Troy was bad in a lot of ways, and annoyed me more because it was so soapily ridiculous, but at least nobody in that movie had Farrah hair.
Okay, the Achaeans did sort of wear outfits that looked like they were invading from Starlight Express.
When will costumers/hair-and-makeup people ever learn??
I'm sorry, my suspension of disbelief snapped long ago, with the haircuts.
Judging only from the posters, I'd have to vote Worst Movie Hair Evah. And the hair in Troy actually looked pretty cool, so they've got no excuse.
Joe, I remember a friend of mine commenting on a Buster Keaton festival on AMC (back when AMC was decent): "It was like gold pouring out of my VCR!"
When will costumers/hair-and-makeup people ever learn??
My all-time Worst Wigging Disaster Movie award goes to Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a Chinese movie I saw a while back. I couldn't concentrate for the first fifteen minutes or so because I kept getting distracted by the Barbie hair stuck on the actors' foreheads.