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Richard III (1995)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 2/14

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2/14: Upon seeing the trailer of Richard III, I was fooled into thinking that it might be a modern picture about the dictator.

However, the title's inference had given me a disquietude: *shudder* Shakespearean language. Lo and behold! My fears sadly came true. Unsurprisingly, Richard III was a complete box-office failure because nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to see it. I honestly didn't want to, either. Hadn't I endured enough from Laurence Olivier?

This version is so full of anachronisms (my horse for a kingdom!), Nazification, and poorly written, outdated lines that it has become a confusing, deplorable mess. Shakespeare and cinema are like oil and water; they don't mix...never have and never will.

All in all, Richard III serves as a bad excuse to make smoking cigarettes in a different way look cool.