News flash: Oliver Stone makes overblown, hyperbolic movie!
News flash # 2: Of the 124 excerpted reviews posted at rottentomatoes.com, Phil selects the one that says "gay porn flick"!
Actual quote:
To reinforce the message for the three people who don’t get it, the adult Alexander (Colin Farrell) and Hephaistion (Jared Leto) spend much of the three-hour film looking at each other with dewy eyes. Physically they never share more than an embrace, but “Alexander†often seems a couple of heartbeats away from turning into a gay porno film (of course, the same could be said of that scene between Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis in “Spartacusâ€).
Is Phil obsessed with gay porn? Is that why that one phrase jumped right out of context at him?? Did Tony Curtis really enjoy dressing in drag for Some Like It Hot? Isn't Phillip a [gasp!!!] Greek name???
Personally I preferred "'Nixon' in sandals" as a sound bite. More pith, less vinegar. It's on the second page at Rotten Tomatoes.
