crazy!!

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

this was kind of an odd movie. we watched it in my english class because we were currently studying the play. if they wanted people who aren't shakespeare scholars to understand the play, couldn't they have modernized the english? i know they wanted shakespeare "flavor" but it was just a jumbled up dramatic mess. all they did was scream at eachother and do crazy things. i was kind of looking forward to it ending. i was almost lost in a sense. leonardo and claire don't go right together. i think it was a mistake to cast claire as juliet. what is so wrong with keeping it back in the elizabethan time? just with modern english. and with swords. guns make it so wrong. i would have enjoyed it a lot more if the english was modernized. shakespeare wrote magnificent plays. i think this was a good attempt for an adaption. i just think it could have been done better. no crazy and weird scenes. i might sound closed minded and traditional but some things are just better kept original. 5 stars out of 10.