Episode 68 - Shakespeare in Love

One of the most overrated Best Picture winners ever, 1998's
"Shakespeare in Love," about a cool-guy William Shakespeare going
around plague-ridden 1593 London, tries to pretend this is about
a character trying to find love, when any viewer can see he's
merely a creepy con artist who's just trying to bang everything
that moves.


Joseph Fiennes plays William "Will" Shakespeare as the title
character who says he's trying to find his muse, but he's just
trying to get laid.


Gwyneth Paltrow plays Shakespeare's "love" (but really just lust)
interest who is about to be sold to Colin Firth's character by
her parents, but really wants to be an actor, so she dresses up
as a man to fool everyone. How she is supposed to be convincing
as a man just because she has a mustache on is beyond us. 


The cast also includes Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Dame Judi
Dench (who are fine), and Ben Affleck (who is painful, as
always).


Join us as we discuss how this movie won Harvey Weinstein his
only Oscar, how Dame Judi Dench got a strange tattoo because of
this movie, and what a bunch of phooey Gwyneth Paltrow's website
Goop is.


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