I just came from the cinema after watching Alexander. As you may have guessed from the title of my post I didn’t like it much. There are lots of things that are wrong in the movie, to start with, why did Alexander’s army, and many of his friends speak English with an Irish or Scotch accent ?! does it my any chance have to do with Braveheart ?! or Macedonians and Greek at that time talked in an Irish or Scotch way !? I wonder.. And what’s it with Angelina Jolie’s accent ? Olympias (Alexander’s mother) was from Epirus, northern of Greece .. and not from Northern Russia ! what is it about ? why did she talk in this fake way !
Now, Beside the stupid choice of accent different characters performed in, the movie was far from being Epic, not even close.. The way the wars were shot was as if they avoid showing the war in a big picture .. war shots were close-ups, avoiding showing large scale war scenes.. Now to the part I hated most.. According to the movie, Alexander was after opening Persia to “Free” them .. even more, Alexander used the word “Freedom” in his war speech to soldiers at “Battle of Gaugamela” and used it after it during one of his gay conversations with “Hephaestion” .. Now everyone knows that Alexander was never after “Freeing” people, and “Freedom” .. he was after Glory, and it was what he was remembered for .. using terms such as “Freedom” and “freeing” and so for Babylon and Persia (that is Iraq and Iran those days) reflects the current American media speech, and the same terminology used after the war in Iraq, when they found out that there are no weapons of mass destruction they started the “Freedom” talk.. Oh Come On ! Alexander had tens of slaves, what freedom are you talking about in 330 BC !!
Now beside that, there are historical errors as well in the movie .. Alexander saw 2 of his sons in his live .. Roxana, which in the movie was still pregnant at his death, did have Alexander IV, in the same year he died .. and Alexander had a 4 years old son from a mistress when he died…
I am not sure what was the point of this movie .. Was it entertainment ? or is it historical documentation ? either way I found it to be insulting for my inelegance..
Movies & Entertainment, News & Politics
Well I didn’t want to be the first one to write about the meetup yesterday, but it seems that other bloggers for some reason or another didn’t post about it last night. Well the meeting was great .. Nader was afraid that it will break the magic that Jordan Planet is having.. and it seems that we took it to another level.
It all started by practicing the Jordanians’ favorite sport of being late to meetings and dates .. we all came late :) as people started to show up I was surprised by the way we talked as if we know each other .. to some extent. Natasha was able to spot Roba from her jacket color, everyone one was impressed on how did Natasha steer the wheel for the gathering, I am almost sure that no meeting with Natasha will be dull or out-of-words ;) Read more…
Internet & Technology, Jordan Planet
I just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. And it is the first time that I watch a movie for Jim Carrey that doesn’t have his same old jokes, body language and facial expresions. My Friend Anan hates Jim Carrey, and he thinks that he is like 3am `3afel. Now “3am `3afel” for those who doesn’t know him is a stupid comedy character for a Jordanian actor. Beside the fact that the character is far from being funny, it had been repeated over and over again in a number of TV series and commercial and theaters. That most can’t really stand hearing his name, his sound, or the way he looks. Jim Carrey managed to do that by repeating himself over and over again. he had some nice movies, no doubt about that.. but I think that he fell in the trap of repeating himself in different movies. Read more…
Movies & Entertainment
Following the trend that MMM started I thought I will share this with you: (PS. I like the fact that this is happening before the Jordan Bloggers Meetup)
- I don’t really like to drive cars, I do it because I have to in order to move from point A to B using a car.
- Most of the times, I say “Left” when I mean “Right” and vise versa.. I had this issue since I was in KG according to my evaluation paper. (evaluation papers for KG actually used to say “he talks so much, and can’t tell right from left”) :)
- I am easier to comminicate with in Internet than with real life.
- Last time I had a physical fight with someone was in 6th grade, and I didn’t win obviously (that’s why I started to think my way out of trouble)
- I hate clothes shopping, I hate trying clothes in the stores.
- If there is such thing as anti-smoking extremist I will be in it
- If time allows, I watch 3-5 movies each week (the number used to be 8-10 movies last year)
- I ate “ants” as a challange to another kid when I was in the 4th grade.
- CISV had a big role in shaping me, and making me who I am.
- I had all my emails that go back to 1996 (first time I had internet) Until I lost them all over a computer accident last January
About Me
I had been getting a lot of “Your blog had become boring since you returned to Amman”, as I stopped writing as often as I did before, when I was in Saudi Arabia for work. Well, they maybe right .. The main reason for having long lags in my blog entries is that one of the main reason for me to start a blog in the first place is because I was leaving to work in Saudi Arabia, and I thought of the blog as the best way to keep my friends and family back home updated to what’s in my head and life.
I can’t deny that blogging to me grow out to be more than what I initially started it for, nevertheless, a slower pace of blog writing is happening now here. Read more…
About Me, Internet & Technology