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01 Nov 2014, 1:56 am

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I love the Ethan Hawke version!


Me too; probably my favorite. Never really gets the respect it deserves.

I hated Shakespeare for the longest time because my English teachers had no idea how to teach it and made us watch the worst movie versions. It wasn't until just a few years ago that I saw the Ethan Hawke Hamlet on TV and then not much later the Jon Finch Macbeth, both of which made me start to appreciate the work. Now I've got a whole shelf on a bookcase full of the plays, and DVDs and Blu-rays of various film versions.

Some people have a parent or a good teacher to thank for making them appreciate Shakespeare. I have Ethan Hawke. Go figure.

Soon I'll be re-watching Branagh's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, DiCaprio's Romeo & Juliet, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and The Bad Sleep Well (loosely adapted from Macbeth and Hamlet), and I'm going to pick up Finch's Macbeth on Blu-ray when Barnes & Noble's November Criterion 50% Off sale kicks in...

Feelin' kinda bardy. :king:


I only came to appreciate the Bard in college, and I've loved his stuff ever since - especially in productions giving it a modern setting.


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01 Nov 2014, 2:49 pm

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax


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02 Nov 2014, 4:11 pm

Naked Lunch {1991 version directed by David Cronenberg}


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02 Nov 2014, 5:59 pm

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Naked Lunch {1991 version directed by David Cronenberg}


One of my all time favorite movies! Peter Weller gives a great William Burroughs impersonation.


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02 Nov 2014, 6:32 pm

Amelie


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03 Nov 2014, 5:53 am

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Amelie


Terrific film. Did you like it?


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03 Nov 2014, 10:41 am

Just saw Gone Girl yesterday. I thought it was a very good movie.



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03 Nov 2014, 6:11 pm

Better Off Dead...


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Amelie


Terrific film. Did you like it?


Yes, I love Amelie. I watch it quite often! :)


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03 Nov 2014, 7:48 pm

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Naked Lunch {1991 version directed by David Cronenberg}


One of my all time favorite movies! Peter Weller gives a great William Burroughs impersonation.


He certainly did, even though the movie was really f***ed up and weird.


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Naked Lunch {1991 version directed by David Cronenberg}


One of my all time favorite movies! Peter Weller gives a great William Burroughs impersonation.


He certainly did, even though the movie was really f***ed up and weird.


"F***ed up and weird" are my middle name! :lol:


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04 Nov 2014, 5:47 pm

Maleficent

A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. Maleficent is a vengeful fairy that driven to curse the infant daughter of the man who betrayed her, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.


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04 Nov 2014, 9:58 pm

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs


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04 Nov 2014, 10:14 pm

Edge Of Tomorrow.

First rate science fiction, with Tom Cruz, playing a less than brave army major involved with propaganda in a war with monstrous aliens that can control time, finds himself busted down to a private and forced to fight on the front line after displaying the white feather. And then he and everyone else are killed - - only to find himself alive again getting ready for the failed assault. He, with the help of Rita, a special forces soldier who had also once been trapped in a time loop, learns to be a soldier's soldier and save the world as he relives that terrible day over and over. Think Groundhog's Day meets Aliens.


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04 Nov 2014, 10:42 pm

Since my Blu-ray of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet was defective and started skipping after the first half hour (a replacement is on the way), I moved on to the next Shakespeare adaptation I was intending to revisit.

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05 Nov 2014, 2:14 pm

In order to avoid most election coverage last night, my family and I watched Serenity.


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05 Nov 2014, 3:08 pm

Brick Mansions

Rather poorly received, but it is the last film Paul Walker completed before his death. He plays an undercover Detroit cop that navigates a dangerous neighborhood surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord, but all is now what it seems.

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In order to avoid most election coverage last night, my family and I watched Serenity.


Can't blame you for that. Did you enjoy Serenity?


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