Thomas A. Leigh wrote: |
I'm still planning on seeing the movie, & I hope that it's good. I want to like it. I'm really hoping that they do a remake of Romeo & Juliet where Juliet is a teenage vampire hunter & Romeo is a womanizing British super spy. |
All good points and I read the books so many decades ago that the actual story in the book(s) is sort of a vague shadow of itself in my mind, so I do appreciate the jogging of my memory and specifically being reminded about what is very different from the original.
From your comments I can sense some despair mixed with hope about the film, and if you view the film putting aside the original from your mind you might be able to enjoy it better : Think of it as " Josh Cutter of Barsomethingelse "
But movies based on books or real history might be better if Hollywood just made them without trying to be cute and make them like everything else they made before. ;)