Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. In the end, Private Romeo, with its indie budget, handsomely captures the uncompromising nature of young love, and "it ends with a long deep sigh, like the breeze of the evening," as Samuel Coleridge said it should. Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added (and coming... Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by. |, February 9, 2012 If you are though, you will hopefully enjoy it as I did. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. A pandering coming-of-ager about sexual identity and equality. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. | Rating: 3/5 Sign up here. All rights reserved. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Private Romeo feels more like a side project from the producers of Glee than some kind of novel queering of Shakespeare's text. the camera moved with them but wasn't too choppy or anything bad like that. Edgy Shakespeare update with all-male cast has sex, drugs. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. A movie involving gay themes, does not actually have to be gay-themed. Since it sticks to the original script for the most part, if you aren't familiar with (and fond of) Shakespeare, you will probably not like this. Don't have an account? February 10, 2012 Edgy Shakespeare update with all-male cast has sex, drugs. How cheap-looking is the modern-day romantic tragedy Private Romeo? You're almost there! A pandering coming-of-ager about sexual identity and equality. An earnest experiment in don't-ask-don't-tell drama as indebted to shirtlessness as to iambic pentameter. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Incorporating the original text of Romeo and Juliet, YouTube videos, and lip-synched Indie rock music, Private Romeo takes us to a mysterious and tender place that only, When eight cadets are left behind at an isolated military high school, the greatest romantic drama ever written seeps out of the classroom and permeates their lives. Coming Soon, Regal The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. There were some random song moments that didn't seem to fit in with the story...but at the same time, they didn't really take away from it. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Brown's film can sit proudly next to Zeffirelli and Lurhmann as an adaptation that has captured the true beauty of the text and adolescent love. Wrong! The score was also quite beautiful. Private Romeo will undoubtedly be regarded by some as a curio, but it's a sweet, sympathetic and surprising one, highly recommended to the adventurous spirit in an enlightened and changing world. Get a bunch of male hotties reciting Shakespeare's most immortal love poetry to one another and you have a hot movie, right? Cinemark A dynamite ensemble cast of young actors invests the Bard's poetry with energetic immediacy. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Hale Appleman actually stole the show for me (he played Mercutio and Capulet - yes, some actors played multiple roles). Further proving my point that this is simply a depiction of the classic story, throughout the entire film they always refered to Juliet with feminine pronouns (i.e. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. It was raw and natural i.e. Just confirm how you got your ticket. "my bounty is as boundless as the sea, and my love is deep, the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinate". | Fresh (5) Get a bunch of male hotties reciting Shakespeare's most immortal love poetry to one another and you have a hot movie, right? Forgot your password? No, it was completely natural and quite believable. Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service. Similarly, the fact that the lovers were both men didn't change anything. Sticking closely to the written text (with basketballs and barbells supplying incidental props) and wisely not attempting to reimagine the specific circumstances that separate the lovers, a dynamite ensemble cast of young actors invests the Bard's poetry with energetic immediacy. Private Romeo feels more like a side project from the producers of Glee than some kind of novel queering of Shakespeare's text. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. Forgot your password? |, February 11, 2012 (Wolf Releasing), Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App. and the Terms and Policies, The leads (Matt Doyle and Seth Numrich) also did very well. Unfortunately, "modern" additions (like the soldiers' YouTube videos and some social media moments) feel clunky, and a necessarily shortened approach trips the movie up, though leads Matt Doyle and Seth Numrich - accomplished Broadway actors - are intense, engaged and appropriately tragic.