*raises hand* I hate Romeo and Juliet with the fire of a thousand suns. Have so, ever since I read the play Freshman Year and wondered why, after Romeo was banished, the nurse/friar didn't just smuggle Juliet out of Verona and reunite her with Romeo. I found the fake-out poisoning really irritating. I mean, I guess from Juliet's perspective she'd rather have her parents think she was dead than be exiled. I know it connects back to Romeo and Juliet being a tragedy and all. But, ugh, it really bugged me when I first read the play.

(Now, like all of Shakespeare's stuff, I can admire the prose. But as a storyline, R&J is my least favorite of the few plays I've read/know about.)

I think marketing played a huge role in this recent R&J adaptation bombing. I've seen no advertisement, and IIRC there was a bit of controversy when Hailee Steinfield was cast, because there was (I think) a nude scene in the script, and Steinfield was underage at the time. Add in the "no audience" angle it seems to have, and yeah, no wonder nobody's going to see it.