am I the only one who really got into this move and was literally left almost puking by how awful the ending was. There was such an intense build up to such a drawn out and utterly anticlimactic ending that ruined the entire movie completely. Anyone have any thoughts on the ending?
shareDo you mean the end of Romeo and Juliet in general? They couldn't really change that. Or do you mean the way it was portrayed in this version?
You don’t have to be angry to have an opinion worth hearing.
Of course I'm not talking about the story itself. It would be completely idiotic to complain about the ending of this movie because I just don't like the original Romeo and Juliet storyline. The portrayal was terrible. There was an appreciable amount of tension leading up to event from moments such as Juliet pointing a gun at her head. Also, everybody knows what's going to happen, so there is tension merely because we want to see how it's going to happen. But when it actually happened, it felt utterly unrealistic and very poorly executed. Neither actor made me feel as though they were losing the entire purpose for their life right before their eyes. They seemed sad, not destroyed to their very core to the point at which suicide is the only course of relief. I still have juliet's final expression burned in my memory because she looked completely out of character, almost calm and collected, as if she had prepared to shoot herself in the head. I think the director wanted her to look as if she were completely lost from emotion and had given up on life, but it came across as a lack of emotion in a moment where that simply doesn't make sense. That's my issue with the ending. Oh and on top of that, the scenes following the suicides felt utterly useless to the movie and added nothing. If it ended the second after the suicides then I would've been happier.
shareI know you say that ...
It would be completely idiotic to complain about the ending of this movie because I just don't like the original Romeo and Juliet storyline.But when you follow up by saying ...
Oh and on top of that, the scenes following the suicides felt utterly useless to the movie and added nothing.You really do seem to be complaining about Shakespeare's ending where the tragedy is underlined to both houses.🐭 share
I don't see where you get that. Movies are allowed to alter the original story to be a better fit for the contemporary movie audience. In LOTR, many parts were trimmed, cut, altered, or expanded to create a better movie experience, and it is a masterpiece of the screen based on a book. Trimming the ending of Romeo and Juliet would've been a better fit for the screen. That was the peak of the movie and since everyone knew it was coming, that was what we were waiting to see. When it came, and was a disappointment, Lurhman made it even worse by sticking on useless material that detracted from the experience he had created. The story was completely about the lovers, not the families, and bringing them back in at the end was a waste and the silly montage was dumb just because one it felt like a chick flick all of a sudden and two it changed the feeling of the ending from tragedy to slightly heart warming knowing they were happy together which is not the feeling we were being led to in the final act of the movie.
shareLurhman made it even worse by sticking on useless material that detracted from the experience he had created. The story was completely about the lovers, not the families
"A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;"
[...]
"Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I for winking at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."
[...]
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
I thought the whole movie was terrible.
shareWere you there, when it happened?.. I thought it was wonderful.
We were (pretty :)) fresh out of high school, class of 1995, the next summer had ended and we were -just- hanging around (still, hehe), wondering WTH are we going to do with our lives - a full year had passed and many moved on to colleges and moved away...
Aanyway, back then we were still going to the movies (there wasn't, this, trend of so many bad movies released all of the time - or, I suppose, our standards had to be lower..:))
So, it was DiCaprio, Danes (AND the rest!), growing up together - with us - and seeing them on screen was great!.. The picture, didn't really matter; the experience, awesome. Yeah, had to be there. Cool tragedy!! :))
Nope. Wasn't there when it happened, as you say. Didn't see it first run in the movies. Saw it years later. I'm a big fan of Leo's and think it's a terrible film. But to be honest, I think Baz is a terrible director in general.
shareAs someone who was stunned (and still is) by the ending, I can only disagree.
Yes, of course I knew how Shakespeare's drama ended, and I already saw Zeffirelli's version (which cannot be compared, in intent and purpose, to this one). However Juiliet's brief crying... and how she looks directly at the camera before shooting herself... to me everyhing was just perfect.
So was the closing scene, in the bleak early morning light. And Captain Prince's speech: "Everyone is punished!" Again, I knew the ending from the original text, but how Baz Luhrman transposed it into modern era was, again... just perfect.
If anything, the ending still is, to me, the perfect closure to a perfect contemporary adaptation.
I'm not sure how else it was supposed to end. I was like 12 when I first saw Romeo and Juliet and hated the fact that Romeo had to die. I didn't get the whole part where he and Juliet were supposed to die. But of course now I get it. But being disappointed in the way it happened? Not sure what could have been changed as Romeo drank the poison, which didn't leave much for Juliet to take so her only option was the gun. I don't know, it's been a long while since I saw the movie. And saying you almost puked afterwards because of the ending is, well pathetic. It's not like it was real life. It's just a movie.
shareYou are pathetic for not reading the rest of this thread and realizing my complaint was the acting and directing of the movie. Read before you post a waste of a comment.
shareWell, I've harbored dislike for Shakespeare since first time I got the concept of R & J, even after understanding the background in which he created this tragedy(now I often refer to the man as 'Billy Shakey'...).
If you were speaking about the ending that stems from the original(pretty sure you were)... unless you can travel back to the time Billy wrote the original stuff and convince him to change that, I don't think the ending's gonna change much from both of 'em dead. Romeo and Juliet ain't Hallmark or PixL, mate.
Read the entire thread before you post. Why does everyone find that so hard.
shareActually, I LOVED the ending -- it was perfect and very powerful in my eyes! I actually found the rest of the film to be a bit lacklustre/boring, but when the ending came along (last 10-15 minutes or so), it brought the film up a notch, in my opinion. I thought it was well done.
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