Romeo + Juliet vs. Heart Eyes: 'Til Death Do Us Part

Romeo and Juliet, the plot.

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip, modern suburb of Verona, still retaining its original dialogue.

This movie came out in 1996.

It has a 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction and Set Decoration.

for Katherine Martin and Brigitte Brock.

And that was a very well-deserved nomination.

The majority of the sets were built from scratch.

The look is so specific.

The theater, the huts, there was actually, they built a bunch of this stuff and then there was a real hurricane where they were filming.

And you can see in Mercutio's death scene, like it's starting to get stormy.

They're like, okay, well, we got to get this filmed.

They had to do pickup shots later, but they built out this town.

They built out this look as kind of a rundown theater on the beach.

Like, it's all...

Every visual in this movie was chosen very specifically, which I respect.

While I did just want to watch Hard Eyes, you know, I was seeing with The Odyssey out now a lot of discussion about the language choices, that the dialogue being modernized works or doesn't work for people because there are elements of the story that Christopher Nolan felt like he couldn't work into modern day vernacular, very specific jokes, word choices.

Now, I haven't seen it yet.

I really want to.

But at this point in time, people are scalping tickets here to go see it at normal times.

Like I saw someone post like, I got three tickets.

This Atlanta mall, 175 bucks.

And then other people are going at 2.30 a.m.

So I'm going to wait a second.

I'm going to wait a second until when people chill out, I want to go see it.