Worst Macbeth Ever

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Why do I get the impression you've never read a line of Shakespeare in your life. Anyway Macbeth is not a novel it's a play, you watch a performance of the play, you don't read it many times. The theme of the play is there in the two main characters. If you have to lie try and be original.

"A piece of (beep)." Amen. I share Aychalefler's opinion.

I loved this one, nut I see what you are saying. It seems that Fassbender is the only one who actually read and comprehended the play. His Diction, expression, and fighting were all a perfect embodiement of his character, but otherwise, the weir dwhispered dialogue was just too obscure.

Can someone who has read Macbeth and seen the 1971 version give a decent rundown of why this film is so bad? What are the differences? Because I just finished watching this film after not having read the play or any of the other version and found the film beautifully tragic, bleak and nihilistic.

What I got out of this film is that macbeth was a great warrior, but heroism didn't translate to great leadership, and having suffered much bloodshed on the battlefield caused a rift in his morality once his ambition took hold of reason.

A once ambitious and conniving Lady Macbeth later regrets having pushed her husband into assassinating the king after she realizes she created a monster and eventually kills herself out of guilt.

I found the tragedy of this story - at least in this film- was that Macbeth couldn't change who he was. Even if he understood how malicious and tyrannical his actions were. His nature was always a violent one. In the end he willingly chose death to prevent himself from causing any more harm.

Maybe I'm reading into this film too deeply, and maybe I don't know anything about the story, but could anyone tell me in what ways my opinion of this film would differ had I read the play or watched the earlier films?

Macbeth is my favorite Shakespearean play yet I couldn't get into this adaptation at all. Huge disappointment.

Absolute garbage. The handheld cameras intruded so badly, they took you out of the movie. In the "if we fail" scene, the camera was bobbing and weaving like a beeping boxer. The witches were absolute rubbish, delivering their lines as if drugged with heavy doses of Thorazine. Fassbender slept-walked through the role, bringing absolutely nothing to it. His delivery was awful. The director and DP overdosed on the grime and sludge, offering an almost relentless dingy, dirty palette reminiscent of The Road. "Are you noticing all this solemnity, kids?" It was unyielding, there was no variance, no subtlety, no brilliance. The majesty of the words was completely drowned out through the horrid delivery and emphasis on muck.

"Worthington, we're being attacked by giant bats!"

Agree. This rendition felt completely flat. Weak Sauce.