Coriolanus - Swing and a miss. There is a reason I prefer to read Shakespeare rather than see his plays performed and that is because, unless it is a regular part of your life, the poetic dialogue is all but incomprehensible unless you have time to sit down and digest it. Cramming a ton of iambic pentameter into a semi-fast paced war film serves little purpose but to make it inaccessible and ultimately boring. It took me a good 1/2-2/3 of the film before I had adjusted enough to the dialogue to really start to pick up the nuance of the exchanges and at that point I wasn't about to rewind the whole thing and start over.
However I must acknowledge that despite the fact that I followed only about half of what was spoken Ralph Fiennes is a freaking tremendous actor. After this I am convinced that he could stand up and read the phone book for ten hours and I would be riveted. A couple of the other actors did well with the dialogue, Brian Cox and Vanessa Redgrave, but Fiennes was the only one who was truly convincing in his delivery...even if I wasn't always sure what he was delivering

Does that make sense?