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Title: Romeo & Juliet is the best part
Review: Well, who even reads these things? But maybe I can offer a little counterpoint. Sure it's dull. Sure, it contains every Hollywood cliche (follow your dream, don't let people get in your way, sex between people is good as long as they are attractive). Sure it panders to people who would like to look intelligent while they knowingly chuckle at the in-jokes. This is Titanic for the I-graduated-from-college crowd. Doomed romance, lots of creeps in the way, a passionate man (so passionate he abandoned his wife and children) and a ditzy female who looks great naked. And yet, the portions of R&J (carefully edited so we never see the early portion of the play where the dingy Romeo is smitten with Rosalind) are exquisite, making me realize yet again why Shakespeare is a writer for the ages and Stoppard is not. Every good line in this film is Will's.
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