7/2     First it was Romeo and Juliette now this:
        http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/hamlet.html
        Does Hollywood have no respect for the bard? Denmark
        Inc? Bill Murray as Polonius? I can hardly believe it.
        Eventhough Mel Gibson had all that bs incest stuff, his
        version was still better than this disgrace.
        \_ stop complaining, whining, talking to skulls, and get off
           your ass and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!! hehe
           \_ 0x2B | ~0x2B that is the question.
        \_ Um, dude, it's been out for over a year and a half now.  And
           if you think people shouldn't be able to use some artistic
           license when they do Shakespeare, you just don't get it.  Do
           you want every Shakespeare production to look like the sappy,
           bullshit 1960s era Romeo and Juliet movie, which stars
           (the aptly named) Olivia Hussey?  Or do you want to allow for
           the possibility of Othello starring Patrick Stewart as a white
           man as a minority in a world dominated by blacks?
           \_ Oddly enough, both the Romeo & Juliet you decry as being
              too stiff, and the Hamlet the original poster attacks for
              artistic license were directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
           \_ the same olivia hussey who played norman bates mother
              in some later norman bates story with flashback-itis
           \_ Artistic license is one thing. For example, when American
              Playhouse and PBS made Much Ado About Nothing, they used
              artistic license by adding and deleting scenes and dialouge
              from the original. This version retained the spirit and
              setting of the original play and even enhanced it. The
              artistic license used by the fool who made this movie is
              akin to bs artistic license used by the fool who displayed
              a cross in urine as art.
              \_ I know what you mean.  Crucifix in urine is so dull.  But
                 crucifix in nun juice...   Now that's a powerful statement.
                 \_ Wasn't there a movie or MTV or something where a nun used
                    a crucifix to masturbate?