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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:45 pm 
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Here they is --

10. Forbidden Planet (based on The Tempest)

9. Henry V (Olivier, 1944)

8. The Lion King (Hamlet)

7. Romeo & Juliet (1968)

6. Richard III (1993)

5. West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet)

4. Throne of Blood (Macbeth)

3. Hamlet (Branagh, 1996)

2. Ran (King Lear)

1. Henry V (Branagh, 1989)


To see all 30: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/gr ... re_movies/


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:01 pm 
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:30 pm 
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Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V" was certainly a fantastic movie. It made me finally realize that Shakespeare really does deserve his reputation. Reading his plays in class just doesn't cut it. You've got to see a good performance or adaptation to make them come alive.

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No Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead? Yeah, it's Hamlet from their point of view, but it's definitely worth the time to watch.

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I assume #6 is Ian McKellen's Richard III, which was from 1995, not 1993 (unless it was released 2 years earlier in the UK or something). Great movie.

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Wasn't Keanu Reeves in some version of A Midsummer's Night's Dream?

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And I see Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing ranked #11. It's a right jolly romp. Branagh and Emma Thompson (who were married at the time) have great chemistry, and Michael Keaton gives a grandly hammy performance.

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Wasn't Keanu Reeves in some version of A Midsummer's Night's Dream?


He was in Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing too.

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No Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead? Yeah, it's Hamlet from their point of view, but it's definitely worth the time to watch.


It seemed to only be movies that follow the story of a Shakespeare play pretty closely. R&G lifts scenes from Hamlet, but the story follows a totally different set of beats.


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Jimbo wrote:
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Wasn't Keanu Reeves in some version of A Midsummer's Night's Dream?


He was in Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing too.

No, I think that was it. I was mixed up.

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Judge WAN wrote:
Jimbo wrote:
Judge WAN wrote:
Wasn't Keanu Reeves in some version of A Midsummer's Night's Dream?


He was in Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing too.

No, I think that was it. I was mixed up.


You idiot.


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Jimbo wrote:
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Wasn't Keanu Reeves in some version of A Midsummer's Night's Dream?


He was in Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing too.

No, I think that was it. I was mixed up.


You idiot.

Interesting, thanks.

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Keanu Reeves, Frank. In tights. On the big movie screen at the theater. Thanks.

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Al Pacino's performance in the 2004 Merchant of venice was terrific, and the fil deserving of a much higher place, as is Baz Luhrmann's kinetic Romeo + Juliet (even if Leonardo and Claire Danes did seem a bit unsure what their lines actually meant) Interesting list, though.


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MILFbait wrote:
No Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead? Yeah, it's Hamlet from their point of view, but it's definitely worth the time to watch.


Never had a chance to see it, but I've been curious about it.

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When I first met my ex-wife, she managed a video store and I happened to rent that very film from her.

Thirteen years later, BAM! Face tattoo.

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(The movie's awesome, by the way. Based on the Tom Stoppard play during his whole "are-we-all-just-characters-in-someone-else's-play" phase around the same time as The Real Inspector Hound.)


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Throne of Blood is by far my favorite of them.

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