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List Price: $19.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 01 November, 1996 DVD Release : 12 March, 2002 |
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Special Edition) description Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) takes a shot at reinventing Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers as a visual pastiche inspired by MTV imagery, Hong Kong action-picture clichés, and Luhrmann's own taste for deliberate, gaudy excess. The result is explosive chaos, both in terms of bullets and visual sensibility, which some may find impossible to stick with for more than a few minutes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the leads, though not with much distinction, while Pete Postlethwaite makes a huge impression as this movie's version of Friar Laurence. The film is successful in spots, but overall its fever-dream game plan is difficult to ride out. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Who Knew Watching Shakespeare Die On Screen Would Be Such Eye-Candy |
| I often feel like one of the only people that take this film as the absolute joke it is. First of all, who's stupid idea was this? Recreating the classic Romeo and Juliet play in modern day Venice(or "Verona") Beach is a fine idea (although it's been done before - and so much better - with West Side Story) but leaving the original Shakespeare script was a hilariously bad idea. I could not take these Los Angeles frat boys speaking Elizabethan English seriously in the slightest. This is supposed to be Romeo and Juliet, yet I'm just waiting for someone to turn around and repeat John Travolta's famous "I just shot Marvin in the face" line from Pulp Fiction. It was ridiculous watching people scream "Do you bite your thumb at me sir?" at the top of their lungs at a burning gas station with a gun in their hands; it almost felt like watching the gas station scene from Zoolander.
Now for some of the horrid, HORRID acting; I love Claire Danes, I really do, but she was lost here completely. It often seemed like she had no idea what to do wit her lines; it was like she realized how much of a fiasco this was and didn't even try. I also quite like Leonardo DiCaprio, but I wanted to punch him in the face throughout the entire movie for delivering Romeo's lines so annoyingly. These are obviously talented actors (see Claire in Stardust and Leo in Blood Diamond or The Departed), but they are surely not Shakespearian actors. Lastly, the cinematography was simply confused. At times it was gorgeous and almost perfect, but then it turned into yet another joke. But still, no matter how good or bad the cinematography was, the whole film looked like a 2-hour long trailer; I think anyone can agree with me there. Overall, this film was a complete and utter fail. Anyone who appreciates Shakespeare as much as I do will find themselves itching for this torture to be over. |
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