Unpopular movie opinions...

[jamespowers]

SCI-Fi Drama.

I suppose I have a hard time seriously considering it a drama. I see Wuthering Heights as a drama. I know it is a gothic novel but the movie was a little different.

 

[John in Covina]

It's like Richard the Third as a drama set in the 1930's.

 

[jamespowers]

It's like Richard the Third as a drama set in the 1930's.

lol lol lol lol Ok, I think I can see some of that in there.

 

[John in Covina]

lol lol lol lol Ok, I think I can see some of that in there.

Richard III

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114279/

great clothes and uniforms neat make over of the Shakespear play

 

[Harp]

Richard III

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Shakespeare

The bard travels well through time; whether Richard III
set in the 1930s; or Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach. :eusa_clap

 

[rue]

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Shakespeare

The bard travels well through time; wheather Richard III
set in the 1930s; or Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach. :eusa_clap

Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach? :love:
[video=youtube;gjxHdNxvySU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjxHdNxvySU[/video]

 

[Harp]

Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach? :love:

...and Tchaikovsky's orchestral interpretation; Prokofiev's ballet.
:eusa_clap:love:

Shakespeare must have been Irish....

 

[Young fogey]

Richard III set in the 1930s... :eusa_clap

Of course I like that one.

 

[S_M_Cumberworth]

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Shakespeare

The bard travels well through time; whether Richard III
set in the 1930s; or Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach. :eusa_clap

It may be true that Shakespeare can work in any setting, but gah! The acting in that Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet is atrocious.

 

[Edward]

It may be true that Shakespeare can work in any setting, but gah! The acting in that Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet is atrocious.

Long time since I've seen it, but I remember liking it a lot. It sticks out as the ONLY recorded production of that play I've seen where they clearly understood that is was about teenage infatuation, not love. I hate hearing Romeo and Juliet referred to as a love story.

 

[Young fogey]

It may be true that Shakespeare can work in any setting, but gah! The acting in that Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet is atrocious.

Never saw that one but liked his Moulin Rouge! Doubted very much it would work with the anachronistic music but it does.

I mentioned I hate Beatles movies (except Yellow Submarine, which mostly wasn't really them; I like it): not camp fun but unwatchable. On that note there was Across the Universe. Not only does it glorify the destruction of the culture I and the rest of this board celebrate but someone managed to take a top-quality songbook (love them or not, their music is good), set it in its period and still make an awful musical.

It, the three live-action Beatles pics, John Leguizamo (a wasted talent) in The Pest, Scary Movie, The Thin Red Line (literally fell asleep at the cinema – Saving Private Ryan it ain't) and Sally and St Anne (a golden-era black-and-white stinker) are in my Ten Worst list. I still have to pick the remaining two. Silverado didn't hold my interest at the time so maybe it's No. 9. Mars Attacks! (not funny but desperately trying to be) or maybe The Toy (OK story and it has its moments but mostly unfunny) as No. 10.

 

[Harp]

Long time since I've seen it, but I remember liking it a lot. It sticks out as the ONLY recorded production of that play I've seen where they clearly understood that is was about teenage infatuation, not love. I hate hearing Romeo and Juliet referred to as a love story.

I recall my school days and Brother Terrence Sloan, a strict master
who seldom, if ever, showed emotion, commenting wistfully that he
thought Romeo "was in love with Love, not Juliet, alas."

 

[Edward]

Romeo was, in the last instance, a silly wee boy that didn't know what he wanted.

 

[CharlieB]

Romeo was, in the last instance, a silly wee boy that didn't know what he wanted.

The term "thinking with his glands" comes to mind...

 

[S_M_Cumberworth]

I mentioned I hate Beatles movies (except Yellow Submarine, which mostly wasn't really them; I like it): not camp fun but unwatchable. On that note there was Across the Universe. Not only does it glorify the destruction of the culture I and the rest of this board celebrate but someone managed to take a top-quality songbook (love them or not, their music is good), set it in its period and still make an awful musical.

You hate all the Beatles movies? That's too bad. I really think A Hard Day's Night is superb.

Never saw Across the Universe, since it looked lamentably bad to me. I think Julie Taymor started off rather well, but she seems to be getting worse and worse with each movie she makes (not to mention her Spider-man Broadway musical). Her film version of The Tempest was recently released, and it, too, looks terrible.

 

[S_M_Cumberworth]

Long time since I've seen it, but I remember liking it a lot. It sticks out as the ONLY recorded production of that play I've seen where they clearly understood that is was about teenage infatuation, not love. I hate hearing Romeo and Juliet referred to as a love story.

I'll give it that. I think it was interesting conceptually, but I feel that none of the actors knew what they were doing. It was just too much line recital and not enough acting. It came off like a high school drama production in that regard.

 

[MissMittens]

Yellow Submarine made no sense to me until a trip to Amsterdam when I dropped acid and watched it on a VCR at some other students' pad I ended up at. That was while I was still of collegiate age, and I have not dropped acid or any other illicit substance since, nor do I condone the use of any drug except MIDOL*. However, it unlocked things in the movie I'm still conscious of two decades later whenever I see it, that I simply wasn't aware of before that experience.

*MIDOL - saved the lives of many men for several decades

 

[Young fogey]

You hate all the Beatles movies? That's too bad. I really think A Hard Day's Night is superb.

Never saw Across the Universe, since it looked lamentably bad to me. I think Julie Taymor started off rather well, but she seems to be getting worse and worse with each movie she makes (not to mention her Spider-man Broadway musical). Her film version of The Tempest was recently released, and it, too, looks terrible.

I'll grant you AHDN is the best of the three live-action Beatles pics (Help! and Magical Mystery Tour being respectively hackneyed, unfunny comedy and incoherent druggie junk), sort of a time capsule of the end of the golden era (which for me is about 1935-1965), a quickly, cheaply made film (which is why it's in black and white) trying to make some money off the pop band du jour before they fall off the charts.

I'll also grant you that maybe I don't get AHDN's version of British comedy.

Good point others have made about Romeo and Juliet. Never thought of it that way. You may be right. But... I remember picking up in school that Shakespeare contrasted teenage infatuation – Romeo's pining for Rosaline – with 'the real thing' for Juliet.

 

[Edward]

Romeo and Juliet[/I]. Never thought of it that way. You may be right. But... I remember picking up in school that Shakespeare contrasted teenage infatuation – Romeo's pining for Rosaline – with 'the real thing' for Juliet.

I suppose that comes down to personal interpretation - for me, the references to Rosaline put Juliet entirely in context as simply the latest fixation for Romeo...

 

[Young fogey]

I suppose that comes down to personal interpretation - for me, the references to Rosaline put Juliet entirely in context as simply the latest fixation for Romeo...

IOW Romeo's shallow. Maybe...