difficult to rate

Rating: 7/10 (20 February 2020)

Oh well, this one is difficult for me to rate. On the one hand I have a fanatastic memory of this movie, of 1996, me being 18, sitting in the late night smoker cinema (yes, something like that existed back in the 90s, a cinema where the audience could smoke while watching the movie - unimaginable today ;)) with a friend and through all the smoke we watched the really intense pictures this movie offers, the darkness, the many candles, paired with the classic and wonderful poetry of Shakespeare. Then and now I was impressed by DiCaprio and Danes, both gave such a believable and intense show of the doomed romance. And yes, in that last scene in the church it is hard not to cry.
Back then, being 18, I was totally impressed and amazed by the movie, coming with the described cinema setting and the fact I was just 18.
Now, almost 25 years later, I watched the movie again last night. Weirdly enogh I got kind of annoyed now by the fact that the wonderful Shakepeare language is a bit, well, stained by the fact it is spoken in slurry American English. I have meanwhile seen English Shakepspeare plays with British native actors, and I guess that's the reason it just bothers me now in the movie as it kind of cheapens the beautiful language and at several times the pronounciation is so bad that it's hard to comprehend.
Another thing is, that these over the top party scenes with all that screaming or the screaming and shooting scenes annoyed me now too. I fast forwarded here and there as the pronounciation was so bad and it was all screaming so it didn't matter anyways.
What still really makes the movie worthwile is the scenes with DiCaprio and Danes, they are so lovely and intenses, they alone make it worthwile and still worth seven stars.