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[bjornwilde]

t Feeling better and working on an active OOM plot. Also watching the recent Tempest with Helen Mirren. Loving it so far. Somehow I am seeing more the loving parent than previous productions I've seen before.

It's funny to see Dorian Gray show up as the son of the king though.

Does every Shakespeare play require one character who talks too much that others mock because of it?

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[yakalskovich]

Oh! I had meant to watch that version of The Tempest because of Russell Brand, whom I quite like but never got around to it, too; Reeve Carney will be an extra draw to that movie.-

ETA: It's on Amazon Prime Instant Video -- hurrah, definitely going to watch it soon!

[bjornwilde]

I did enjoy it but I wasn't amazed by it as I had expected. Alan Cummings is also on the cast, btw.

I think my criticisms are likely my own problems and not the productions. I'll write them out once I am at work if you'd like. Overall, at this point I would give it 3.5 stars out of 5. It likely would go up to 4 with a reviewing since I don't immediately fall into Shakespeare.

[yakalskovich]

I have a special relationship with 'The Tempest' as it is -- first Shakespeare play I ever saw, in a weird TV version sometime in the early eighties. And I like Shakespeare. So, it's on my watchlist now.

[bjornwilde]

I love The Temptest as well and I was going to suggest the TV version was maybe Prospero's Books but IMDB says that came out in 1991.

[yakalskovich]

There was a number of them in the early eighties, according to IMDb; I remember that it was full of weird psychedelic special effects. I was very young and impressionable.