Quote Originally Posted by Spino
My opinion of Alexander dropped even more (if that's possible!) when I caught Lawrence of Arabia on cable a week or so after seeing it.
Funny that you mention "Lawrence of Arabia" in this context, Spino.

When my wife and I discussed the "Alexander" movie and its shortcomings (the ones I mentioned in my previous post) after we had seen it on Friday, "Lawrence of Arabia" was exactly the movie of which we thought that it would be a good "peer" that succeeded in areas where "Alexander" failed - combining the greatness and the torn character of the main protagonist in a believable way and allowing the audience to actually "connect" with the main characters, even if these characters were not the most likeable ones.

It's hard to describe what really made the difference, but we had the feeling that a combination of the historical accuracy of the Alexander movie and the ability to actually tell a story that can be seen in Lawrence would have made a truly great movie of the (IMO) already good and interesting Alexander movie.