Titus
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Movie Reviews of Titus
Movie Review: Top candidate for the 10 worst list.
Summary: 1 Stars
I almost never give a film a one star rating. But when the dollars to dumb gap gets to the mega-level of Titus - It gives me no choice.
I have read that numerous Shakespearian historians give Titus Andronicus the dubiously honor of being one Shakespeare's very worst plays so it boggles the mind that it would ever be the choice for an ultra expensive film. I stayed for three quarters of the film before walking out. It is virtually impossible to care about Shakespeare's original mediocre story due to a multitude of astonishing production choices and distractions in the film. For example: an incomprehensible time in history and location, ludicrous props (such as the emperors massive sheet metal throne), absurd costumes, affected posing and notice-me readings by the actors, needless slow motion gore scenes and questionable camera choices by the director. Unadulterated pretension laid on layer after layer with a trowel. The effect is you feel you are watching a hodgepodge of outlandish ideas with no center. There is such a lack of restraint that after a while you become deadened to anything that is happening on the screen. The ideas for the film may have seemed interesting on paper and there are many talented people involved with this film. Unfortunately the realization didn't work. To be fair to the filmmakers the original play was not much to get excited about to begin with. The picture of Titus's expression on the cover is a good indication of the mind-numb you will have if you sit through this film.
Movie Review: Style trumps substance in TITUS or Where's the Bard?
Summary: 1 Stars
OMG what a headache this film is!I never quite knew what century I was in.The costumes and music and cars and horses and microphones and hair styles and.....to put it simply lavish style trumping substance and in short you have a ghastly mess!
TITUS is one of if not the single most overdone film I have ever seen.When director Julie Taymor's vision of Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS makes it impossible to find The Bard,then I have to say that the vision of one woman trumped the narrative of the man.TITUS is such a mixed bag of tricks that your attention is repeatedly drawn away from the story and is focused on all of Ms.Taymor's razzle-dazzle.It's an "artistic vision", but it so compromises Shakespeare's narrative that it reminds me of a soundtrack drowning out the dialogue.I detested this film from the outset and hated it at the end of 173,count them,173 minutes of pure absurdity.
Shakespeare has been adapted successfully many times,especially by Kenneth Branagh,but Julie Taymor's TITUS is pure cruddy crap! AWFUL,AWFUL,AWFUL!
Movie Review: No Horror, Just Decor
Summary: 1 Stars
Julie Taymor is a designer, not a director. She lavishes all her creative energy on scenery, props, costumes and other inanimate objects. She can treat human beings as stage-dressing (the lock-step soldiers, the orgiastic revellers), but she cannot cast them properly or convince them to give good performances. Anthony Hopkins murmurs, rants and snarls without once achieving significant emotion; Jessica Lange and Harry Lennix can barely speak, let alone fill their roles; Colm Feore (Canada's idea of a major classical actor) does nothing with his apostrophe to Lavinia; and Alan Cumming is not convincing as a heterosexual. In brief, Taymor's film is a characteristic specimen of postmodern Shakespeare: heavy on production design, but dramatically and histrionically mediocre. One cannot do justice to Shakespeare through imagery alone, a truth that postmodern auteurs seem unable to grasp. And Titus, of all plays, is about flesh and blood, the very elements that leave Taymor at a loss.Movie Review: Oh My oh My......
Summary: 1 Stars
It was Horrible with a capital H. Did I say it was horrible? Nay, it was auwful. I did try, I sat through 40 minutes of it, I plomise, I did, I did. But it was torture, I just couldnt anymore. Lets put it this way I love some of Shakespeare's works but to date I cant bring myself to watch DiCaprio's Romeo & Juliet whilst truly loving the 60's Ziferelli version, you know why? coz its 'bastardized' same as this one above. I too expected to see a true Roman production. Dont you just hate it when they do that? No doubt all in the name of "Art". Well art like that twas not meant for me. Do yourself a favour and skip this one, unless of course your one of them 'artsy-fartsy' sort, then you might dribble on forever proclaiming to all and sundry how orgasmic it was. Pity they dont have minus 1 star!
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Movie Review: Unfortunate
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm afraid I have to agree with another reviewer that the "time shift" employed here completely destroys the story. This movie would chase cars if you left in on the portch!