I just saw this pretty cool movie called Hamlet. It's about these two
guys: Old Hamlet is this dead guy who pops in every once in a while, and
New Hamlet is the star of the picture. While I like Shakespeare's use
of Hitchcockian themes, and noir camera angles, I really think he made a
big mistake in allowing the actors to speak English. I think the city
was in Denmark, but you couldn't even tell, especially since they
didn't shoot on location. Also, the long-ish script got a little dull in the middle with the introduction of a few minor characters, like the incessantly wangsty Ophelia, a thinly-veiled metaphor for the death of the Flower Power movement.

Ultimately, I feel like Shakespeare made some really good decisions though, like the casting of actor/comedian Bill Murray as Ophelia's oddball father. The parts with him reminded me of the best famcom from the Father of the Bride movies, and I think the script really needed the comic relief to sort of ground the "out-there" story into an everyday-life situation.

All-in-all, I think that Shakespeare made a pretty solid horror flick in Hamlet, with a few minor flaws that might distract the choosy viewer from the screen-writer's otherwise novel story-telling.