Response to "Stratford-on-Avon calling"

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 1998)

Hey, "Stratford on Avon calling", No, "intellectual" is not a dirty word for me and I did not mean to suggest that "Shakespeare in Love" is a film only for intellectuals. Far from it. The few (not hundreds of) references to Shakespeare in the film are of the sort taught in any high school freshman Shakespeare course. In fact, one of the producers of the film has gone on record as saying how boring he found Shakespeare's plays as a student. Perhaps that's why, in his own film, he turned the greatest playwright in history into a sit-com character. No, what I was trying to say was that, rather than a film of real intelligence, I found this to be a fairly unfunny, simple little film that's getting an undeserved reputation for intelligence, romance and wit. The fact that people like you feel you have to defend it so strongly, says more about the lack of really interesting, films in the world today.
I'm sorry my comments upset you so that you had to write an insulting response. You're certainly entitled to your opinion as I am to mine and if you really think Ms Paltrow in a mustach would inspire Shakespeare, so be it. As to your personal advice to me, let me simply say that I usually prefer to take advice from people less easily amused.