All I needed to see was the opening scene was this: Christopher Dunne's Titus Andronicus is the absolute worst interpretation of Shakespeare ever created! The music was badly written and played. The man playing Saturninus looked way too old to be the son of the recently deceased emperor, and the man playing Titus looked like he should have been cast as one of Shakespeare's whiney, annoying, innefectual characters. The violence was so over-the-top and disgusting, it was absolutely ridiculous. The two men doing the killing in that first scene were having far too much fun, and the facial expressions and laughter were totally out of place. I've never written this bad a review before, but now I realize it's because this movie is the first one I've found that's deserving.