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One of Oliver Stone`s most famous films. Buddy Fox (Charlie Sheen) works in the stoke selling-buying part but he wants to become a big gun. In order to achieve that he has to get to Gordon Gekko (the notorious villain actor Michael Douglas) - a local multi millionaire who`s become rich as a pig just by selling and buying stuff. When he does that GG teaches Buddy how to play in the big game. It proves to be quite a dirty one, but Buddy is ready to do almost everything in order to becoming like GG. He gets a high-class chick, a high-class apartment, etc, etc. Only when GG tries to buy the airplane company Buddy`s dad works for in order to break it apart, Buddy can`t stand it anymore. By the way, Buddy`s dad is played by Charlie Sheen`s real father - Michael Sheen, that`s cool. So GG`s and Buddy`s roads cross again. And you can probably guess that it don`t end 100% well for Bud. A film about finance and brokers isn`t particulary easy to make watchable, yet Stone has done a good job with this one. Ok, probably some parts of it aren`t 100% entertaining but as a whole the film deserves little complaints from a fellow like me.

Atjaunots 08.02.2007. 6. februārī noskatījos šo filmu atkārtoti un secināju, ka mans viedoklis par to laika gaitā ir mainījies. Es joprojām nesaskatu tur neko tik ģeniālu, lai pasludinātu "The Doors" par visu laiku labāko kino darbu, bet patiesībā filma ir tīri laba - droši vien man bija kaut kāds slikts noskaņojums, kad to pagājušo reizi skatījos. Protams, īstas skaidrības par to, kas tieši Morisonā bija tik kruts, man no šīs filmas neradās, bet vismaz man neradās arī tāda pretīguma sajūta kā iepriekš, kad to biju skatījies. Viena lieta gan mani mazliet izbrīna - kāpēc tā filma saucas "The Doors", ja acīmredzami vienīgais tās varonis ir Morisons - nedz Mazarekam, nedz pārējiem grupas dalībniekiem nekāda uzmanība pievērsta netiek un viņu loma visā šajā pasākumā tiek minimizēta. Toties filmas reitings no 4.5 ticis uzlabots uz 7.

Hurrah! I have watched one of the endless row of big-screen epics about a hero from the days of old! And this film not only got bad reviews, but it failed to score at the box office and was presumably a piece of trash. Which was a surpise to many, since it had Oliver Stone as the director and Anthony Hopkins on the cast (although not playing Alexander, which would be a silly thing knowing that he died at the age of 32). Still, this film shows almost the entire life of Alexander the Great. What is the biggest controversy is his love to his male-friend Hefastion, although the film has no bed scenes between those two characters. What it does have is two quite solid fights, a beautiful city of Babylon, and something to think about. Alexander`s father Phillip (played brilliantly by Val Kilmer) is an agressive and quite rude man but he isn`t really a negative character, and that`s a good thing that there are no real villains in this film, just as there are no real heroes. Angelina Jolie looks certainly funny as Alexander`s mother being at the same age as her son - Colin Farrell. This film isn`t certainly the best thing that could be made from the life of Alexander the Great, but it`s pretty solid and I certainly found it to be much better than the average rating it`s supposed to get.

Ir filmas, no kurām es neko lielu negaidu, un līdz ar to tās man arī nesagādā vilšanos. Piemēram, "Wanted" vai "Zack and Miri Make a Porno". Un ir filmas, kas mani pa īstam apbēdina, un "W." ir tieši šādas kategorijas filma.

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