A Midsummer Night's [chat]

JustinSane07

The Lion King is the best adaptation of Hamlet ever.

Wash

Havelock wrote:

Has there ever been a film adaptation of The Tempest?

Yes, recently. Helen Mirren was in it.

Abdhyius

Pony wrote:

You know what makes Shakespeare even better?

GUNS AND EXPLOSIONS

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

Yes. they do.

I liked romeo+juliet.

But this looks really fun.

TL DR

Organichu wrote:

tl;dr have you seen the latest episode of always sunny?

it's not quite 'implications' level. but there is a conversation there that is so egocentric and sociopathic it elicits the same sort of 'oh, no!' laughter. it involves a bunker and is just fucking hilarious.

I have not! In fact, I haven't had much of any time for TV. I just recently got to watch the first episode of this season of Dexter.

Adding that to my queue, though

Pony

the Coriolanus trailer inevitably reminds me of the TV show Kings

which I absolutely adore and is incredibly fantastic but is very hard to get people to watch because it has one season then it got cancelled and the plot has no real resolution

but my god it's some of the best acting and writing that has ever been on TV

TehSloth

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

You didn't see modern Romeo + Juliet if you can claim such an opinion.

Everything about that movie but romeo and juliet was fantastic.

John Leguizamo's Tybalt = awesome
Dude that was Mercutio = awesome

Wash

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

You didn't see modern Romeo + Juliet if you can claim such an opinion.

are you high

I'd have to be to enjoy that movie.

Dynagrip

this is rather random of the onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-sure-is-a-spooky-time-for-the-economy,26442/

Squirminator2k

G'marnen, [Chat].

It's the start of another beautiful day of unemployment.

Pony

things i like:

political drama
explosions
guns
homoerotic masculinity
modern adaptations of classics
ralph fiennes

so this Coriolanus movie has me pretty excited

Pony

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

You didn't see modern Romeo + Juliet if you can claim such an opinion.

are you high

I'd have to be to enjoy that movie.

you weird, bro

it's a very uneven movie, basically everything concerning romeo and juliet themselves is sorta lame

but basically everything else about that movie is amazing

Squirminator2k

Romeo and Juliet is not great. It's about stupid teens who think they're in love, but can't be together, and so they die.

It's basically the Twilight of its time.

Wash

Okay yeah, Michael from Lost as a cross-dressing Mercutio was great. I maintain the rest was mostly balls.

spool32

Does it make me a horrible person to say that I liked Mel Gibson's Hamlet best of the film versions?

Pony

Wash wrote:

Okay yeah, Michael from Lost as a cross-dressing Mercutio was great. I maintain the rest was mostly balls.

when was the last time you watched it

Jacobkosh

I feel the correct way to refer to that movie is Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo Plus Juliet

wandering

Everything about Romeo+Juliet is great. Including DiCaprio's performance.

Pony

Squirminator2k wrote:

Romeo and Juliet is not great. It's about stupid teens who think they're in love, but can't be together, and so they die.

It's basically the Twilight of its time.

yes but Baz Luhrmann is an incredible film-maker and if you can't look past the teenage angst and the shoddy over-acting of a young Leo DiCaprio then i don't fucking know, man

Abdhyius

Squirminator2k wrote:

Romeo and Juliet is not great. It's about stupid teens who think they're in love, but can't be together, and so they die.

It's basically the Twilight of its time.

have you seen the movie we're talking about

Pony

alright, i am off downtown to have lunch with Cass, Choco, and BeNarwhal

peace out homies

Donkey Kong

"Local honey cures allergies" is marketing brilliance. I've never met a single person who has claimed that it helped their allergies, but no one is mad since they never expected it to work to begin with. And they keep buying it anyway because it's so much tastier. It's perfect.

Wash

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

You didn't see modern Romeo + Juliet if you can claim such an opinion.

are you high

I'd have to be to enjoy that movie.

you weird, bro

it's a very uneven movie, basically everything concerning romeo and juliet themselves is sorta lame

but basically everything else about that movie is amazing

It lost me when they pulled their longswords out and the swords were guns.

That stuff is either going to seem awesome or stupid to an audience, and I fall into the latter category.

Abdhyius

Donkey Kong wrote:

"Local honey cures allergies" is marketing brilliance. I've never met a single person who has claimed that it helped their allergies, but no one is mad since they never expected it to work to begin with. And they keep buying it anyway because it's so much tastier. It's perfect.

I'm generally not OK with outright lies as a marketing trick

Elendil

romeo does not sparkle

spool32

Dynagrip wrote:

this is rather random of the onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-sure-is-a-spooky-time-for-the-economy,26442/

That was terrible. When did the Onion start letting people do serious Op-Eds with gastly wordplay as a patina f comedy over them?
Or am I missing something, and the very existence of the column is a meta-comment on whether or not Krugman's argument can possibly be serious?

Abdhyius

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

You didn't see modern Romeo + Juliet if you can claim such an opinion.

are you high

I'd have to be to enjoy that movie.

you weird, bro

it's a very uneven movie, basically everything concerning romeo and juliet themselves is sorta lame

but basically everything else about that movie is amazing

It lost me when they pulled their longswords out and the swords were guns.

That stuff is either going to seem awesome or stupid to an audience, and I fall into the latter category.

...you have seen very few plays I guess

Mojo_Jojo

Well, I had some luke warm interest, so I made a thread in CF. Everybody should go and play.

It's not really a PBP, in that you don't have to make a character or anything and you can just play at your own pace. Hopefully it should be fun.

Donkey Kong

Abdhyius wrote:

Donkey Kong wrote:

"Local honey cures allergies" is marketing brilliance. I've never met a single person who has claimed that it helped their allergies, but no one is mad since they never expected it to work to begin with. And they keep buying it anyway because it's so much tastier. It's perfect.

I'm generally not OK with outright lies as a marketing trick

Well, this is more bullshit popular medical advice than marketing, but marketers could learn from it!

Havelock

Also, Romeo+Juliet had Pete Postelthwaite.

Pony

Abdhyius wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

Wash wrote:

Pony wrote:

modern retellings of Shakespeare own

You didn't see modern Romeo + Juliet if you can claim such an opinion.

are you high

I'd have to be to enjoy that movie.

you weird, bro

it's a very uneven movie, basically everything concerning romeo and juliet themselves is sorta lame

but basically everything else about that movie is amazing

It lost me when they pulled their longswords out and the swords were guns.

That stuff is either going to seem awesome or stupid to an audience, and I fall into the latter category.

...you have seen very few plays I guess

yeah i don't know man

this sort of thing is pretty standard for plays, many shakespeare plays mess with the period a little, change the period and the setting and the costumes and shit

it's one of the beauties of Shakespeare, that adaptability of the basic core stories

also the longswords and daggers in this context were referred to as brands of guns (even printed on them)

it worked

you a busta

Wash

Are there many plays where the swords are guns Abdy

TL DR

Honey has been shown to be more effective than Dextromethorphan (the common ingredient in cough syrup) in relieving cough. Never heard that claim about allergies, though.

Mmm... placebos

Squirminator2k

Abdhyius wrote:

Squirminator2k wrote:

Romeo and Juliet is not great. It's about stupid teens who think they're in love, but can't be together, and so they die.

It's basically the Twilight of its time.

have you seen the movie we're talking about

I've seen Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and it is, in my opinion, the least-worst adaptation of the play produced.

spool32

As a general rule, I never like "modern adaptations" of shakespeare, on film or the stage. I can't think of an exception, honestly. They all annoy me.

Pony

Wash wrote:

Are there many plays where the swords are guns Abdy

yes

this is commonplace

dude do you go to the stratford festival at all

ever

TL DR

spool32 wrote:

Dynagrip wrote:

this is rather random of the onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-sure-is-a-spooky-time-for-the-economy,26442/

That was terrible. When did the Onion start letting people do serious Op-Eds with gastly wordplay as a patina f comedy over them?
Or am I missing something, and the very existence of the column is a meta-comment on whether or not Krugman's argument can possibly be serious?

Paul Krugman wrote:

OK, for those wondering:

Yes, it was a Photoshopped picture of me as Dracula. In the long run we are undead and all that, but not yet.

No, I didn’t have anything to do with the article. But they spelled my name right, so it’s all good..

Elendil

what if the guns shot swords

wandering

spool32 wrote:

Does it make me a horrible person to say that I liked Mel Gibson's Hamlet best of the film versions?

well, just so long as you don't like Branagh's version.

TL DR

I'm on the line with tech support for this terrible, awful law firm software and the guy is so nice but the software and his answers are all so bad.

Elendil

Wash wrote:

Are there many plays where the swords are guns Abdy

did it break your immersion