Romeo and Juliet vs West Side Story

I love Romeo and Juliet. I like West Side Story too, but Romeo and Juliet is just so good! People don't like it because they think the story is stupid, or they can't keep up with the language, but it is a language evolved into what you speak today. The two stories are the exact same. The only difference is that Maria does not kill herself. The problem with Shakespeare is that people are forced to read it in high school. Well, when you read lines off a page, the story does not move very smoothly. When you go to see it and the lines actually sound like a conversation, the show has a lot more substance. I feel that West Side Story is the equivalent to the new Oceans Eleven. It is a great movie and it is very entertaining and clever, but a lot of people only know the version with George Clooney. They don't know about the fabulous original 1960 movie with Frank Sinatra and The Rat Pack. It is sort of like For Good from Wicked, and then For Good from Glee.