Letterboxd — Your life in film

+ Solid story, it's Shakespeare, and a nice tribute to him too
+ Any lame parties and dated lines are fun in an ironic way
+ Good soundtrack
+ Characters were stereotypes but they work well
Overall it's a successful teen rom com but the genre makes it feel meh. As good as John Hughes films but not as funny or relatable as Superbad was.

Their first day of school is hilarious, with Tatum's character failing at being popular by being a bully and then having adventures on drugs. Some reviews pointed out how it mocks teen movie cliches but the second half of the movie plays it straight with an awkward thrown in romante and a "you're off the force" plot point. It just loses the humour.

I liked the characters but I didn't laugh once.

+ Some good stunts in the car chase in the first half hour
- most of the action was incomprehensible thanks to editing
- the script was bolted on to the die hard name to sell tickets but it seemed to be a mixture of the hottest video games of 2008; CoD Modern Warfare and GTA IV.

+ Inspires you to create art, protest and ... tweet
- It cuts to black and shows text for a lot of the film which seems lazy
- Just about a nice guy on twitter who get's slightly bothered by the Chinese police state
- His art didn't even seem great to me

- Looked worse than a ps3 game. It's always obvious what was cgi and it all looked unimaginative. The final 'epic' fight was just cloned polygons on a checker board floor, like computer animation 101.
- The acting is terrible. Johnny Depp kept using his pirate voice. Ann Hathaway should never be taken seriously as an actress again as she just kept he arms raised with less emotion than a pantomime fairy.
- The changes to the story to make it like a generic fantasy instead of a weird acid trip for kids.

Watched the director's cut with a very long looking for the cat scene that wasn't very tense.

Prometheus had a faster pace and better effects even though it was retarded. This reminded me of a B grade monster movie but (though it had more style).

+ David Fincher lighting and mood
- Boring generic factory sets don't make me hopeful for Fincher's 20,000 leagues under the sea
- Bad acting, especially the British characters
- Barely any alien
- No thrills or action

Overall: It's like a bad episode of Doctor Who but without the fun.

+ As far as dramas go this is incredibly powerful because of how relatable every character is (even while being cliché). We all go through moments about what our purpose is. It also feels private and personal.
+ Dat iconic soundtrack
- Some people make fun of the more iconic artistic moments of the film like how he's jerks off to fucking rose petals and the acting during the floating bag scene ("sometimes the worlds so beautiful I just can't take it"). I can go with it but these criticisms stick in my head.

One of those indie movies without much of a plot and it's just weird characters. I didn't find the characters interesting and it doesn't have anything else going for it so it bored me.

It's a lot easier to think some guy called William Shakespeare wrote some plays than to try and understand the plot in conspiracy theorist director Roland Emmerich's latest blockbuster. The entertaining bits are the CGI flyovers of 17th century London and the OTT performances in the globe theatre. The rest of the film fails to evoke any emotion and is just confusing and boring.