Highlander, indeed. Not just one of the finest films ever made, but educational too.

As for Alexander, I think the whole thing was well researched and apparently quite accurate (caveat: for a Hollywood blockbuster...), it's just the film that was unutterable shit. That's as far as I can tell from the American reviews anyway, I'll still go and see it. I might take a few screen shots of these boards with me though, just so I can sit at the back of the cinema and complain loudly about the wrong kind of cross-stitching they used in the companion's trousers. ;)

AFAIK, The guy who was the film's historical advisor, Robin Lane Fox, is a fantastic writer and a well respected professor of history; his book Alexander the Great got me into the whole period in the first place. I missed the documentary he made about the filming, but apparently he swapped his fee for the chance to dress up as a Macedonian extra and get at least a flavour of what it was like to charge in one of Alexander's phalanxes. He was suitably excited by the whole thing...

And anyway, what with the general incredibleness of Alexander's story, you can imagine top Hollywood-producer-type Bud Weinsteinfinkleberg taking one look at the historically-accurate script and screaming, "Hell no! Even can't pretend all shit really happened!"