Only one?No, one's enough... I don’t like writing pans of films, which is why I’m more likely to wax on about a film I like than about a film I hate. I wrote that post on my least favourite films of the decade and that was bad enough.
It’s too easy to bring up a horrible movie here, instead I’ll opt for a movie that I don’t find very good (I’d give it a D, maybe even a C-) and one that I loathe for personal reasons….it stars Orson Welles. No it’s not Citizen Kane (even I still find How Green Was My Valley better, kill me I know).
Excuse the digressions. I love Shakespeare, I started reading him when I was thirteen and I was lucky enough to study “Macbeth” two years later – then I saw the Orson Welles film version. Yikes. Without a doubt it ranks as my least favourite cinematic encounter. Shakespeare is difficult to adapt to screen – even the good ones have obvious reality issues, but Macbeth, for me, lies in a league of its own. Perhaps it’s because I internalised it (what can I say, I was a neurotic student), or because it was one of the plays we put on for school but I was so indignant after seeing the film. It just struck me as offensively inadequate, and considering that I wouldn’t rank it in Shakespeare’s top ten that goes to show how little I like this movie.
I’ve come to realise what Welles was aiming for in his production, but I’ve never been able to appreciate the film. I see it and the old embers of hate burn brightly. I’ve always been more than a little overwrought. I still loathe Macbeth…
Did you skip it…did you like it?
The MEME is going well. Shocker.
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