Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet

uhhh im the one that revived it homie

maybe it was 'ironic'?

never, i totally dig on this movie

will ride for this all day tbh

totally didn't realize paul rudd was in this

Anyway let's anticapate UNTITLED ALEXANDER PROJECT!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:01 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

lol

love this movie

really fantastic production design

yes!!

more haters need to come out and express their hate for this amazingly hateable movie

it's like the worst music video ever made or something

i hate this.

prefer the comic

in theory baz luhrmann's other movies could also be the worst movie ever made

but I am never going to watch them

you are the donk of baz luhrmann

Strictly Ballroom is actually pretty good.

i'm quite amazed to hear that Luhrmann is not gay.

He was, one understands, gay before the marriage. And still declines to identify as straight.

He was, one understands, gay before the marriage. And still declines to identify as straight.

Actually I find this radically defensible.

Which means I am all the worst qualities of gay males without any of the good ones.

Baz is the Tom Robinson of Aussie auteurs

i like the idea that there is a difference between people who saw this and knew what florida was, so that it felt like a "modernizing" production, and people who saw this but really had no idea about florida and so the setting was as imaginary as Verona had been to shsksp's contemporaries

I know where Florida is, motherfucker.

Strictly Ballroom is actually pretty good.

cosign, easily my fave of his movies

Moulin Rouge! has some great set pieces but doesn't hang together for me.

I suspect I wd prefer the Ethan Hawke Hamlet (which really is good)

― Dr Morbius,

omg gtfo

It is!

it is pretty good

Leo as Gatsby in 3D, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1655573/baz-luhrmann-considering-3d-great-gatsby.jhtml

I suspect I wd prefer the Ethan Hawke Hamlet (which really is good)

― Dr Morbius,

been wanting to see this for so long, really must get round to it

that Baz Luhrmann can get anywhere near The Great Gatsby seems like a terrible thing

Leo as Lassie.

all i needed to know about this film was: benny blanco from the bronx =/= tybalt from verona ... and i was not disappointed.

this movie isn't good but leo and claire are both gorrrrrrrrrrrrrrgeous and do good jobs; every time the movie takes a fucking breath to let them hang out and speak actual full lines it's better than the zeffirelli. pete posthelwaite's good too i seem to remember.

oh and yeah leguizamo.

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.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2OTEwMDUzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODU1NTQwMw@@._V1._CR0,0,333,333_SS99_.jpg What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4NzExMjA4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjE3NDMxNw@@._V1._CR0,0,1365,1365_SS99_.jpg I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2OTEwMDUzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODU1NTQwMw@@._V1._CR0,0,333,333_SS99_.jpg What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward!

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.