Wake up it's the 20th century!

Rating: 1/10 (4 July 2006)

So my English class and I just finished watching the '68 version of Romeo and Juliet and then we had to compare it with this modernized version. I was excited to watch this version since I thought it would be good. I'm sorry, but it sucked.
This version of Romeo and Juliet kept bugging me. So is Luhrmann trying to say that in modern day Verona, people can just carry guns around and start shooting and the law isn't charged upon them? And the citizens don't care that their local gas station is on fire? Another thing: Hello Romeo and Juliet OPEN your eyes and look around. Oh my gosh, your NOT in Renaissance Italy! Your in modernized-and-updated Verona! There's money! There's cars! There's passports! And airplanes were invented nearly a century ago!
Consider those facts. This movie shouldn't have used the olden language. Baz should've changed the script. I would be amazed if Verona beach boys with pink hair started to say thee's and thou's.