[Chris Eco]

(14) Romeo + Juliet



(I hope this is the one everyone meant. Because there are a BUNCH.)

Abra: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Sampson: I... I do bite my thumb, sir.
Abra: Do you bite your thumb at *us*, sir?
Sampson: [to Gregory] Is the law on our side if I say ay?
Gregory: NO!
Sampson: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir

vs.

(19) Demi Moore's Scarlet Letter



Pearl: [voiceover] Who is to say what is a sin in God's eyes.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

I actually thought Romeo and Julliet was pretty decent.

[DevSop]

I hate Demi more than I hate Claire.

[creepy]

I hate R + J more than I hate almost anything.

[Batman]

Romeo + Juliet is teh greatest.

[Mikey]

R+J was before Claire Danes got hot, and the discovery that Mercutio was indeed NOT Tuneman from Speed puts that pile of crap over the top for me.

I'm shocked at how many movies, such as Scarlet Letter, are in this showdown that sucked before they even got released. How you fuck up Romeo & Juliet though, I don't know.

[Chris Eco]

Oh, I'm happy with the way this is going. Just to remind:

The Scarlet Letter ends with all the characters dead in a grief and sadness spiral.
Demi Moore's Scarlet Letter ends with the adulterous couple riding off on a noble steed after the Indians run and save them.

[Evil Scotty]

ecosystem said:

Oh, I'm happy with the way this is going. Just to remind:

The Scarlet Letter ends with all the characters dead in a grief and sadness spiral.
Demi Moore's Scarlet Letter ends with the adulterous couple riding off on a noble steed after the Indians run and save them.

which one of those endings is the alternate?

[Chris Eco]

The alternate? At the risk of missing a joke, the first ending is from the book, and the second is the movie's.

[Evil Scotty]

gotcha, never read the Scarlet letter book but it sounds like the end of R+J. and I never got thru the movie either.

[Lucky]

tarheelmike said:

R+J was before Claire Danes got hot, and the discovery that Mercutio was indeed NOT Tuneman from Speed puts that pile of crap over the top for me.

Mercutio was Harold Perrineau though and John Leguizamo* was Tybalt. That's 2 of my very favorite bit actors. The movie also had Paul Rudd and Paul Sorvino. Not to mention that DiCaprio is actually a talented actor for all the crap he did in the '90 and Danes ain't half bad herself.

I don't know whether to vote for Scarlet Letter on the grounds that R+J was loaded with some talented actors and a couple of my favorites. Or to vote for it because it sucked with that cast. Demi and Banderas were never going to do anything for me.

Hmm... Hot Chick tiebreaker does nothing for me as I think I'm about equal on tagging either Demi or Danes.

Wait a second.

# The dialogue of death scene of Romeo and Juliet is moved around so that Juliet wakes as Romeo drinks the poison, and he dies in her arms. Juliet's soliloquy is removed completely, and she wordlessly commits suicide with Romeo's gun.

They rewrote Shakespeare? THE scene? What the hell? That may push me over the edge.

*The other night I saw The Pest for the 2nd time and realized I had missed a really bad one.

[Stu]

luckylopez said:

tarheelmike said:

They rewrote Shakespeare? THE scene? What the hell? That may push me over the edge.

They also took out the part where Romeo fights Paris and kills him, Paris thinking Romeo came to the church to disrespect Juliet's resting place.

[Batman]

Uncut, "Romeo and Juliet" would take three hours. I think they did a great job of cutting out an hour without doing violence to the language or ideas.

[Lucky]

1st: since the idea of that film is to take true Shakespeare and apply it to modern life I object to any editing. Not adding guns instead of swords. I get that. But cutting scenes for time? BS.

2nd: If you're going to cut into scenes you pick THE scene of the play? Arguably the most well known and important scene of all Shakespere's writings? Why can't Juliet have a soliguiy? What's wrong with that? Is that really 5 minutes you need to spare? BS.

I vote R+J. I'm not some hardcore Shakesperian scholar but that's silly.

[creepy]

Then they should have made it three hours. To be more authentic. Of course, if they'd made it 3 hours, then they would be alienating their core audience. Teenage kids don't do three hour movies.

Horrible movie.

Never sat through The Scarlet Letter. Looked boring as all get-out. It wouldn't have mattered.

[Chris Eco]

Demi Moore gets an edge over a truly hated movie. Good call, everyone.