Maybe The Movie Just Sucked

Oliver Stone is bitching that his film Alexander flopped because of "raging fundamentalism in morality" in America:

"Sexuality is a large issue in America right now, but it isn't so much in other countries," the Oscar-winning director explained yesterday. "There's a raging fundamentalism in morality in the United States. From day one audiences didn't show up. They didn't even read the reviews in the [American] south because the media was using the words: 'Alex is Gay'."

Um...Oliver, people in America see movies on a daily basis that are a lot more raunchy than the story of Alexander the Great. Let's see if the "enlightened" Euros like your sorry movie anymore than us simplisme Americans. The more likely cause is that you are the worst director in America and the country discovered that long ago.

Oliver had another excuse; Americans are just too friggin' stupid to understand his brilliance:

The £80m epic has so far cashed in around £18m at the US box office. The Platoon director previously defended his epic of the Macedonian conqueror, saying that it was too complex for "conventional minds". "The script was just too ambiguous, too questioning about an action-hero who was masculine/feminine. These are tough qualities in Hollywood," the Platoon director said last month. "It's just too big a life. It doesn't fit in into the Hollywood formula."

There are millions of people in the blue states, why didn't they go to see your movie? I actually believe that the smart people are the ones who didn't pay $8 to see you movie and maybe put it towards something more worthwhile, like maybe purchasing a hammer and whacking themselves upside the head a few times.