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I watched A Performance of Macbeth, from 1979.
It has Magneto and Emperor Palpatine and M in it, which was vaguely amusing.
It was quite a lot boring.
Macbeth shouldn't ought to be boring.
Everyone was wearing black on a black background on a blurry 1979 tape and unless faces were in closeup I might as well have been watching radio. After a while I gave up and drew twirly celtic knot patterns instead. And most of them didn't work right so I got annoyed.
The people who had interesting voices were not the people who had the most lines.
Macbeth was all monotone far too much of the time. Possibly he was going for 'numb' or something, but mostly he was just boring. Blah.
Also the Terry Pratchett version is a lot more memorable than is helpful when trying to concentrate on the actual play. Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax kept heckling in my head.

So now I've watched Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth.
Also more than a year ago Comedy of Errors.
Hamlet was amazing, but I'd still rather be watching the funny ones.

I am grumpy. how can they make witches and knives and sword fights boring? Blah.