Do you like Shakespeare?

I get Shakespeare. I'm in awe of the sheer volume of works he completed. His vocabulary was prodigious (see what I did there?).

But over the hundreds of years since his death, his stories have been adapted, folded, spindled, and mutilated to the extent that most folks are tired of the same old tales being told again and again.

Hollywood of late can't come up with an original idea to save their collective backside. Stories that wouldn't have flown 30 or 40 years ago because they're lame/nonsensical/stupid are going over as acceptable because they're not the same ol' same ol'.