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Summary: Would you Adam and Eve it?
Review: Make a nice set and clad a couple of famous actors and actresses in pretty clothes and anything will get the thumbs up! What a load of steaming garbage this movie is!!! What the hell is all the fuss about? And just who gave Ben Affleck the idea that he could act at all, let alone trying to get him to speak with an English accent. Horrible! But, of course, it had to be done - they had to put an American in there somewhere, just to make sure it sold in the US! Shallow!
I am in awe that such a dull and shallow story could captivate people in this way.
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Summary: Gwyneth Paltrow - Masterpiece
Review: Paltrow's performance is haunting - such intuition - don't listen to the negative reviews - jealousy is indeed potent! Enjoy your Oscar Gwyneth!
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Summary: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Review: If you want to see a good film about love, lust and tragedy this is the one. Shakespeare wrote amazing story Romeo & Juliet, and in this film it's told how the wolrd's greatest love story was created. Shakespeare who has been in love with Rosaline thinks she's her muse, but she betrays him. So Shakespeare thinks he can't write anything now when his muse is gone. But when he meets a woman called Viola DeLesseps he falls madly in love with her. Who falls in love with him as well. The tragid love story begins like the tragedy of Romeo & Juliet. It's in the same wave length. This beautiful movie is fantastically told. Every part in the movie is just pure genious work, It's perfectly directed and storyline is just fabulous. And the actors are amazing. You have never seen many good actors in a same film, acting so well like they actually really were their characters. They're living their life. Especially Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes are amazing. So, if you're into to tragid love story this is the movie you should watch!!
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Summary: Prepare to be disappointed
Review: If you are a lover of Shakespeare, English and/or period movies, be prepared to be extremely disappointed with this movie. If you really want to own a DVD or video of this movie, rent it first. If you like Judi Dench, you may want to buy it for this reason alone, then you can scan the part where she is shown, otherwise this movie is not worth watching again or worse, owning. This is the first movie I've seen of Gwyneth Paltrow and I think this is the main reason why I could care less if I see another movie with her on the cast. Paltrow is dry and artificial. This movie is so ridiculous, it is almost insulting. Not even Judi Dench's magnificent performance (as always) could save it.
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Summary: There Is No Way To Hate This Movie
Review: Despite all the criticism pro and con, this film has an excellent chance to become a classic. Although it was targeted to the same audience identity that made films like Raiders, Star Wars, E.T., Back To The Future, Jurassic Park blockbusters, it helps to remember that this one is different...this one is Shakespeare and it does what the Bard himself did over and over again.....appeal to the masses. Sure it's "cute", sure it has some historical issues, but it has the great ability to appeal at all levels....If you don't like Shakespeare, so what?....it's a great romance movie.
If you don't like historical films, so what?....it's got a great plot and impressive acting.
If you love Shakespeare, so what?.....get a life.....it's funny....get it, funny?
If you think this is moronic.....learn to sit back and relax....take it for what it's worth....a nicely done historical fiction with great acting and sets.....personally, it's one of my favorites just because it makes EVERYONE either love it or hate it....and until you give it a chance (which may require multiple viewings for anyone who thinks this is a 1-dimensional film), you won't know which now, will you?
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Summary: Blah
Review: I could hardly sit through this movie. Could Shakespeare really have been so incredibly stupid as to have sex in very public places, with all odds of getting caught, with a girl dressed as a man, (a woman acting at this time was a crime, in which she could be severely punished--if he really "loved" her, wouldn't he care more about her safety?). This wasn't love--just pure and simple lust. They never really have any conversations, only recite lines from his play and then jump into the sack. Let's just call it Shakespeare in Bed and be done with it.
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Summary: BORING
Review: This movie was sooooo bad. I had to fast forward through half of the movie because i was falling a sleep.It was really pathetic!! The only thing i liked in this movie were the costumes. Totally skip this movie!!!
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Summary: I Was Overall Impressed
Review: If you know "Shakespeare in Love" only as the film that upset "Saving Private Ryan" at the Oscars, then you owe it to yourself to give this picture a chance. It's a compelling (and fictional) story that tells how Shakespeare might have been inspired to write "Romeo and Juliet." There's this theatre that's on the verge of bankruptcy when its last two shows flop. Desperate for a hit, they turn to (a young) William Shakespeare (Joe Finnes) who is tapped to write a play. He suffers from writer's block before he crosses paths with this beautiful woman (Gwyneth Paltrow, in her umpteenth British role) who is already engaged to some other bloke (Colin Firth). They begin a romance, and suddenly he is inspired to complete the play, which becomes a hit. The film soared on the strength of its performances. Dame Judi Dench was deliciously good in her semi-controversial 8-minute performance as the Queen; Paltrow holds her own throughout the film, as does Finnes. Heck, even Ben Affleck, in a minor role, isn't half bad. But as much as there is to admire in "Shakespere in Love," I wasn't wetting my pants over this film as most critics were when this came out. It's good but not mind-blowingly great. Still, movie buffs should check out this solid flick and add it to their collection.
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Summary: Magnificence personified
Review: I've just finished my third viewing of "Shakespeare In Love" and find it gets better each time. I'm of the opinion it definitely deserved the Oscar for Best Picture and should have received one for director John Madden. He pulled performances from his actors that were breathtaking in their rightness and consistency, and he brought a forward motion to the film that only enhanced its roots. I know a little of Shakespeare so caught many of the beautiful script's touchstones (most of which I attribute to Tom Stoppard rather than Marc Norman), but that knowledge was not necessary to enjoy the story. Madden brought to it a sense of urgency and discovery that still amazes me, even without considering it was only his second film. The actors deserve as much praise as you want to give them -- especially Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes -- for bringing heart and life to characters that could easily have become charactures. To me there is no question which is the better film, vis-a-vis "Saving Private Ryan". While technically amazing in its first twenty minutes (after the God-awful opening bookend), SPR was little more than another edition of "Indiana Jones" with real carnage. And Speilberg could not resist indulging in his sad bent for over-sentimentality. You can't say that about SIL; it's magnificence personified.
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Summary: Entertaining but with a glaring anachronism
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this film--the acting, the sets and costumes, and the attention to period detail. The fictional unfolding of "Romeo and Juliet" was brilliantly done. However, I was shocked when Colin Firth referred to his "plantation in Virginia" and, again, at the end of the film, spoke of going to Virginia with his bride. This film supposedly takes place in 1589 and the first English settlement in Virginia was in 1607 (Jamestown). And, it was a good many years after that before there were any established plantations. Somebody goofed on this one!! Aside from this, wonderfully witty and entertaining film.
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