During my second viewing, I had a little bit of the Batman Begins experience where I became more aware that the first half of the movie is a little slow and exposition-heavy, but it's not as boring. There's already so much in play after the first fifteen minutes; I love how the spectre of Mal hangs over every frame, even when she's not there.

ita, I just figured that Arthur, being the point man, scouted and set up the warehouse. The shot where Cobb and Ariadne wake up in the warehouse is just later on . Or am I missing what confused you?

Smonster, I thought that Ariadne and Cobb had already started speaking before we saw Arthur go into the warehouse, hence my confusion.

I think they did, but I agree with smonster.

I finally watched Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. Man, I really wanted to like it, but it just does not work. Don't do Shakespeare again, Leo. Although, maybe you're better at it now.

How's the Ethan Hawke Hamlet in comparison?

Yeah, I think it was just a flashback.

I like some things about Luhrman's R&L. Gorgeous visuals, kickass soundtrack, Harold Perrinau in drag, the stylization. The acting didn't bother me so much back then, but it might if I watched it again. I like Luhrman's stuff, generally.

Me too, smonster. And I agree about the good things, but for some reason the whole thing didn't come together as a compelling whole. It was a little too IN YOUR FACE for me, I think. And I love Moulin Rouge. And I like Strictly Ballroom. (I remember very little about the movie, honestly, but it's one of my most memorable moviegoing experiences, so I have a fondness for it.)

I HATED R & J when I first saw it. It seemed like the production design went CRAZY! And Moulin Rouge is one of my favorite movies of all time. After awhile I began to think of R & J like a comedy, and I liked it better.

Ha ha ha, Sophia, about halfway through, I started to think the same thing. "Maybe this is supposed to be FUNNY! Maybe it's a PARODY..."

It does have a great soundtrack, though. One of my very favorite Everclear songs is from the movie. I got the soundtrack from one of those 12-CDs-for-a-penny things back in the day, I think just for "Lovefool." I hadn't even seen the movie.

Well, I think, in a way, it is a blueprint for Moulin Rouge- the humor and ridiculous opulance laid over a cliched tragedy. I think perhaps he misunderestimated the cliche of Romeo and Juliet or the actual quality that is Shakespeare, as well as the draw of Leo for teen girls at that time.

I was just looking for the "Post-Haste" scene on Youtube (because I cannot believe that a movie with a Post-Haste truck is taking itself seriously), and I did not find that, but I just watched the trailer. There were a lot of comments about Claire Danes and what a bad choice she was, including one that said he "never knew any guys who licked her". I cannot stop laughing.