If you want to enjoy Shakespeare, and you came of age in the MTV era (or at least could enjoy Miami Vice), may I recommend Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet? (The same director is about to release The Great Gatsby, starring the same lead, Leonardo DiCaprio.)
Luhrman didn’t modernize the language, but he cleverly used visual clues to help people understand what the characters were talking about.
LOL! I'm from the Leave it to Beaver era...........and I STILL can't get into Shakespeare.