mom63423 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Do you know anyone who can post the version you talked about? I would be so pleased to heard it!

japbunny (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yeah she really is a terrible actress

sallysall (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The movie is fine, but do yourself a FAVOUR and check out the BBC Radio version of Hamlet (with Kenneth also)... it literally ruined me for any other version (even 15 or more years after I first heard it!

XIPM3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

winslet is a terrible actress.

crazygal06 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

WOW his acting is so powerful!!!! everyones acting is soo spot on!!!

iamcool1515 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

im not a fan of branagh as hamlet. i think he over acts the role to a certain extent. he's just a bit melodramatic for my liking a lot of the time. plus he's a bit too old for the role. Hamlet should be a college student; not a 35 year old or however old he is. just my opinion though

silvericenight (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

No, its just the original idea was that Hamlet was early-mid 20's. The grave digger says hes about 30. There is such differentiation between ideas. There might even be the idea that Hamlet is 16 during the entire play. I like the idea of him late teens- mid 20's. But that is me.

eipirani (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Kenneth Branagh is gorgeous

besteverr001 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

oh he does do well in this scene!as far as the movie as a whole though, not very good. some of the acting was rediculous, in my opinion.but winslet was incredible as always, and i loved branagh as hamlet.

edboswell (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Kindly consider Hamlet to be a compressed narrative. Hamlet starts out younger, leaves for England, and comes back in the graveyard scene, where the gravedigger says Hamlet the prince was born 30 years ago. The play was staged in the early 1580's, and references to Hamlet exist as early as 1592. This is why a "Ur-Hamlet" is proposed, even though no copies exist of it, it is to support the statford myth.