Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet

i still wanna play tybalt. peace?

leguizamo kills it

will never really be able to separate "this movie" from "seeing it at age 11"

or from "wearing the CD soundtrack out in 6th grade"

cast of upcoming adaptation by carlo carlei

Hailee Steinfeld ...
Juliet
Paul Giamatti ...
Friar Laurence
Ed Westwick ...
Tybalt
Douglas Booth ...
Romeo
Kodi Smit-McPhee ...
Benvolio
Christian Cooke ...
Mercutio
Lesley Manville ...
The Nurse

chuck bass at tybalt is kind of inspired, he will be "good" but not good, or good but not "good" or whatever

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4NzExMjA4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjE3NDMxNw@@._V1._CR0,0,1365,1365_SS99_.jpg Part, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do.

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have never seen this film, but Baz's Gatsby is gonna make it look good.

I saw R&M at the Public Theatre about 25 years ago w/ Cynthia Nixon, Peter MacNicol and Anne Meara (aka Ben Stiller's mom) as the Nurse.

i love leguizamo inordinately. this isn't a terrible film, it's just one of those things made more terrible by a cohort of its fanbase

the production & costume design on this movie is crazy good

i love leguizamo in it, and also harold perrineau's mercutio, though despite all this i'd say simply ballroom is the only luhrmann i really like

Leguizamo claims to be 47

HAHAHAHA

I love him. I feel like 47 could be right, no?

I know people who did downtown improv with him in '79, and he was out of high school

52 if he's a day

if only yer taste in politics and baseball teams were as good as yer taste in films, morbz ;_;

i despise baz lurhmann's films generally.

moulin rouge shares honors with napoleon dynamite as the worst "good" film that i turned off well before the halfway point b/c otherwise i would've hulk-smashed the DVD player.

at least i made it through romeo + juliet ... and was rewarded with radiohead at least.

"rewarded"

Douglas Booth ...
Romeo

That's just good twink-casting right there.

"rewarded"

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, January 31, 2012

I thot we were agreed on politics, Eisbaer? fuck em all

Just wanted to share this glorious pan of ELVIS
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/elvis-review-baz-luhrmann-1234728121/

Watching this for the first time in foreverrrrrr and

- had forgotten how good the opening brawl is
- I always remember how great Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio is, Leguizamo’s Tybalt also incredible
- soundtrack remains on point, Talk Show Host for that initial scene with Romeo is so great
- I have NO memory of this sauna with Juliet’s father and Paris
- you really get the textual sense of “These are two stupid and overly dramatic teenagers” in this adaptation, I was laughing at Romeo scribbling in his diary while sulking on the beach
- what was going on with Juliet’s mother and Paris like

Luhrmann's first couple of films are really good including this one

Leguizamo same, sadly misapplied talent

WHY UNCLE, TIS A SHAME is a fucking banner of a line

Also, “give me my sin again”

Banger *

MAKE A MUTINY AMONG MY GUESTS?

Also love how Leguizamo delivers the 'peace? Peace?' line.

Seen this so many times through teaching the text that I have no distance from it at all. Love it. I must say 'the boys the boys' a couple of times a week.

Yeah that’s a superb delivery and the pause & crunch is insanely great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux2FgZizcrc

So great, lurzman struck serious gold here, everything else he’s done has been completely not my thing at all, this is so weird and dreamy and sensational

Yeah, he’s such a hacky vulgarian, no idea how he had it in him to make this.

otm to everything in the revive except nv's lament for leguizamo who has had imo a very interesting time of it

he may have continued to be really good in stuff i'm not interested in tbf

what a great film
ages well
time to rewatch