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Yeah it was probably edgy in its day, but it doesn't hold a candle to George RR Martin. First of all, the whole plot gets spoiled for you in the first act. There's no incest or tits or dragons, and you don't even see Lady Macbeth kill herself. It's so bad most actors won't even mention it by name.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:39
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king lear is better
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Aug 15, 2014 23:40
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Copley Depot posted:Yeah it was probably edgy in its day, but it doesn't hold a candle to George RR Martin. Shakespeare finished Macbeth.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:42
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But in fact their IS incest, OP; by the standards of the time, the cucking of the old king by his brother was considered INCESTOUS
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Aug 15, 2014 23:43
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roman polanski's version is pretty good. the sword fight at the end owns and i dont htink it is overrated at all
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Aug 15, 2014 23:43
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isnt he the groundskeepr on the sampsons
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Aug 15, 2014 23:43
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Banquo 4 lyfe
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Aug 15, 2014 23:44
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I liked Macbeth, but hated Hamlet. What a whiny doucher.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:50
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I personally liked Othello more as it gives us a new and exciting take on the tradition interracial cuckolding scenario.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:52
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Helical Nightmares posted:Shakespeare finished Macbeth.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:09
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baw posted:roman polanski's version is pretty good. the sword fight at the end owns and i dont htink it is overrated at all The Polanski version is great. Also: Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear are the best film adaptations of Shakespeare.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:14
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And if you want to watch other adaptations of Macbeth, skip Orson Welles's one. He did a good job with Othello and Henry IV, but his Macbeth stinks. Ian McKellen was in a good version in the 70s (which is probably impossible to find), and Patrick Stewart was in a decent version recently (though it was all modernized and stupid -- I guess Macbeth is supposed to be a modern dictator or something in it?).
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Aug 16, 2014 00:18
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Op needs his tongue ripped out, and his hands chopped off.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:19
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as long as we can all agree that keanu reeves is the greatest living shakespearian actor
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Aug 16, 2014 00:21
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It's cool in a sense that the Manson cult brutally murdered Roman Polanski's wife so that modern cinema could finally get one sick-rear end take on Macbeth.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:23
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Parallax Scroll posted:king lear is better yeah but that's hardly a fair comparison
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Aug 16, 2014 00:29
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Helical Nightmares posted:Shakespeare finished Macbeth.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:31
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hamlet is better
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Aug 16, 2014 00:33
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othello's the weakest of the big four
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Aug 16, 2014 00:38
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rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is better than hamlet
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Aug 16, 2014 00:38
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baw posted:rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is better than hamlet no loving way. though i did like the hamlet in the film adaptation. now that he killed himself, robin williams was a brilliant osric in retrospect
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Aug 16, 2014 00:39
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OUT, OUT, DAMNED OP
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Aug 16, 2014 00:40
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i loving hate reading shakespeare and i will never enjoy his plays or adaptations of them.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:40
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i thnik reading shakespeare is dumb, in general
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Aug 16, 2014 00:41
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watching it being performed is better, but they always edit out stuff. and when they don't, you get monstrosities like branagh's hamlet
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Aug 16, 2014 00:43
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what is the worst film adaptation of a shakespeare play
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baw posted:what is the worst film adaptation of a shakespeare play Lurhman's Romeo + Juliet has not aged well at all.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:46
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the worst i've seen is the ethan hawke hamlet (bill murray as polonius!)
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Aug 16, 2014 00:47
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Yeah, Ethan Hawke Hamlet is pretty loving bad. The "To be or not to be" soliloquy is given in a Blockbuster video in the "Action" aisles (GET IT!?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxAvnTaw7A I once had a teacher who thought that because of the contemporary setting my class would relate to it better and "get" what Shakespeare was going for. I think my class was really dumb for her to have thought that. Like special ed dumb.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:48
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exquisite tea posted:Lurhman's Romeo + Juliet has not aged well at all. oh, yeah. this one really sucks too.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:48
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i have good memories of it, i remember mercutio's death scene being great. i was in my teens when i saw it tho
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Aug 16, 2014 00:48
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but at least romeo + juliet had a lot of stupid poo poo going on all the time. ethan hawke hamlet is really boring all the way through.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:50
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now that i think about it literally the only part i remember is the mercutio death scene
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Aug 16, 2014 00:51
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Exactly. Romeo + Juliet is retarded, but it has retard energy and strength in most if not all of its scenes. Ethan Hawke Hamlet is that weird early 00s pre 9/11 rich NYC ennui personified in a very bad way. When Bill Murray can't salvage your picture, it's loving terrible.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:51
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baw posted:i have good memories of it, i remember mercutio's death scene being great. i was in my teens when i saw it tho There's an annoying cut every second and half the cast just shouts their lines like they don't understand what the gently caress they're saying. I actually don't hate the Ethan Hawke Hamlet, though. I know I probably should, but it's at least watchable in a tidy 90 minutes and does some interesting things.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:53
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If you want to see one kickass Shakespeare adaptation from the whole regrettable "MTV movies" period of the late 90s, watch Anthony Hopkins' Titus Andronicus.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:56
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i watched it for a class after reading the play. the play was weird as poo poo and didnt even seem like something shakespeare would write and the movie well lol
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exquisite tea posted:If you want to see one kickass Shakespeare adaptation from the whole regrettable "MTV movies" period of the late 90s, watch Anthony Hopkins' Titus Andronicus. this is indeed good. julie taymour did an adaptation of the tempest a few years ago. i haven't seen it, but it wasn't well received it's sad that no one wants to adapt henry iv because it's split into two plays. it's probably his fourth best play, behind hamlet, macbeth, and king lear.
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Bitches leave. The best Macbeth is Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
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