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September 24, 2005
O
O (2001), Tim Blake Nelson:
In college, I was actually going to see it but took a wrong turn on the way to the theater and missed the showing, so we ended up getting ice cream instead. I did not know then that that was the best outcome possible for that situation (a proverbial Kobayashi Maru, if you will).
Like the Ethan Hawke Hamlet, O is a completely uninspired Shakespeare translation that hopes desperately that you're entertained enough by the change in setting that you'll ignore the dullness of it all. Also, I swear Julia Stiles wasn't always this bad an actress, but thinking back, I can't recall anything to refute that.
4/15
Posted by bing at September 24, 2005 11:47 PM