We didn't really watch that much of it -- my AP English teacher had us watch snippets of five different Hamlet movies -- but what we did see was fairly good. I do wish they hadn't kept the olde English, but what can you do?
Horatiooo.... was good, as I recall. The main thing that comes to mind was the oddness of hearing Shakespearean English come out of their mouths ("To be or not to be" was given in an off-brand Blockbuster, for example), and the horrid hat Hamlet wore somewhere in the middle.
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Date: 2007-02-27 08:00 pm (UTC)Horatiooo.... was good, as I recall. The main thing that comes to mind was the oddness of hearing Shakespearean English come out of their mouths ("To be or not to be" was given in an off-brand Blockbuster, for example), and the horrid hat Hamlet wore somewhere in the middle.
.....So really, I'm not all that helpful. XD