Set in the present day, but with 16th c dialogue!

Rating: 1/10 (17 April 2017)

The way Shakespeare wrote is so far removed from modern English that it's like a different language. When I tried to read his work, I needed to often refer to a book which translated words and phrases of that time into modern English. I had to refer to it so many times that it made reading any one of his plays a long, slow and tiresome task. I was very pleased when I heard that a modern remake of Romeo and Juliet was being made, so that I would be able to understand it without translation. I was puzzled and very disappointed when I watched it and it was in the original dialogue! It had already been filmed many times in its original dialogue and 16th century setting. What's the point in setting it in the present day if you're going to use archaic dialogue?!