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HELL YEAH SHAKESPEARE

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Costume design is tremendous. These folks could probably design a pretty nifty stillsuit.

Brilliant, violent, masterful, wonderful.

"At first the movie seems to be saying something about fascism and other modern issues, but it quickly proves to be pointless pretentious art with fashionable factors and enough aimless, avant-garde creativity to satisfy the art critics. Some rare scenes are good, but Shakespeare is butchered for the sake of extravagant costumes, and this arrogant artsy carnage continues endlessly."

With Shakespeare's infamous tale of severed appendages, Julie Taylor gives a completely unique take on the play. While this can be applauded, I can't escape the fact that half of it looks straight out of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Hopkins bleeds fire onto the screen, but when doesn't he?

Really good, but so violent and disturbing it's hard to watch. Visually amazing.

This adaptation of one of Shakespeare's earlier, and arguably lesser, dramas works on the strength of sumptuous visual design (although attempts to integrate modernism oddly dates some scenes), and amazing acting performances, particularly Harry Lennix as the black-hearted Aaron.

This misfit son of Shakespeare's canon is given an appropriately bizarre treatment by the brilliant Julie Taymor. The cast is marvellous, as Hopkins' bottled madness spills out onto the screen and brings to life the disjoint settings and ancient dialogue. I was a bit let down by the dream sequences, they seemed cheap in comparison to the rest of the film, but that is just minor quibbling in the face of such an excellent production.

Though not Shakespeare's best play, Julie Taymor really puts on a fantastic visual show that amps up the brutality and doesn't apologize for anything.

... I don't get it. There's some ridiculous shit going on here. I just want to watch the play. Let me watch the play.

you'll either turn it off right away, or watch it all the way hypnotized

It's not a lesser work, just an under-rated one.

Bold but not quite a terrific movie. Too artsy.

Julie Taymor's debut film is an amazing anachronistic adaptation of a Shakespeare play, with a fantastic cast and haunting music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Roman general Titus Andronicus returns home triumphant from battle against the Goths and parades his captive, the Goth Queen Tamora, before the people and emperor of Rome. The emperor is suddenly smitten and marries her, making Titus' bitter but defeated enemy suddenly very powerful. Cue two hours of hysterical violence and wailing in sorrow as the two families heap endless misery and death upon each other. Brutal, bloody, and it has Jessica Lange showing off her 50 year old cans...nice.