I want to start off by saying that this is very much an opinion piece and if you are someone who delights in bad movies, painful acting and bad scriptwriting then this article may not be for you.
All that glitters is not gold and that is certainly true when it comes to film adaptations of Shakespeare. It seems every few years a new Shakespeare inspired film arrives in the cinemas with a flashy trailer and the novel idea to set it in the modern-day.
Funnily enough, they all seem to be about gangsters, guns and drugs which speaks volumes about the originality of such works. There is a reason that of the ten worst-rated Shakespeare adaptations (IMDB), nine of them are set in the modern-day. It is clear that there is something about these films that sets your teeth on edge and makes you wince with each painfully delivered line of Shakespeare’s finest poetry and prose.
