The Great Gatsby

katie.

katie.

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The movie comes out this Friday - is anyone going to see it?

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I studied the book in English this year and I must say I liked it. We're going to see it as a class the week after it comes out to see how Baz Luhrmann interpreted it. Should be pretty good based on the trailers and the soundtrack (some pretty big names wrote songs for it ..Beyonce, Lana, Kanye, Florence, etc.)

Post thoughts/critiques/etc here!

 
Just finished it 3 weeks ago in english class, didnt like it too much, but it tied into our American Dream unit were studying
 
Quality literary prose, hope the producers don't slaughter it, and I actually liked that book, every other school book besides that and Kaifer Boy, and Catcher in the Rye sucked
 
they already had the great gatsby on film in the 70's but it was god awful. Kinda feels weird when ap kids are reading this when this was a required read for all levels in my ghetto high school.
 
Not expecting great things out of this, we all know what happened last time Baz Luhrmann and Leonardo DiCaprio made a movie together...
 
same here. I read it while on vacation earlier this year and didn't enjoy it too much. II think I would like it more if I re-read it and took my time going through it.
 
I'm gonna see it, solely for the reason I don't see why everyone's hyping it up so much, never read the book, but from the synopsis it doesn't seem as though it'd be something everyone would love.
 
It looks terrible. Overly stylized, and much more focused on aesthetics, not the story. Plus I've heard it takes a lot of liberties with the original story. Modern Hollywood fucking up another classic story.

Also, Tobey Maguire looks like an idiot in all his movies, and though I usually like him, Leo D. looks like he performed terribly in this.

Watch the original with Robert Redford if you want to see a Gatsby movie

 
I think I might go see it. As close as I may get to an Entourage movie in real life. And it was executive scored or something by Jay-Z, I wanna see how that works out.
 
Yes I have. It was pretty good, not my favorite. I also got to watch the original movie, which was also pretty good.
 
In my high school all of the sophomores in honors english read it... I didn't know it was a senior (I'm assuming?) AP class book now. I remember watching the original movie in class after we read the book and I thought it was pretty dry. I probably won't see this one any time soon cuz I hardly ever go to the movies.
 
Did everybody know that it is being written by I forget his name but he lives in the house next to gatsby and he is like in a mental institution
 
HYPE

HYPE

HYPE

HYPE

excited to see it tho, all the annoying girls cant stop talking about it i want to smack them. but i think baz luhrmann is an interesting guy.
 
Why did they pick such an ugly actress to play Daisy? Very disappointing. Can't really sympathize with Gatsby when the girl he's fallen in love with looks like a transvestitie.
 
I don't understand the downvotes in this thread, I'm going to see it for sure, I honestly thought the book was kind of crappy but i'm excited to see a Baz luhrmann interpretation. romeo + juliet was kind of stupid but this should be good. Doesn't seem to be as 20's as it should, though...
 
Did it ever cross your mind that there's a reason everyone loves it so much and that you should read the book to find out what that reason is? Not sure how you can sincerely believe that you have a better understanding of how good the book is having never read it than all the people who have read it.
 
I think it would be hard, at least where Gatsby's parties are concerned, to use too many special effects
 
not going to lie, i get to go see this for a class field trip, and the only reason i'm excited (apart from missing a full day of school) is to see Myrtle get the shit smacked out of her.

*see my above trailer in the thread for a scene of my friend getting slapped in the face and spewing ketchup everywhere
 
Yeah I see what you mean, I disregarded the whole based in the 20's thing and how hard it would be to make it without special effects. It would be cool if they did like a newer version of the gatsby, like modern since they already made a gatsby movie
 
To be fair that version is already a remake of the 1940s version. Not that ladd was much better.

From the reviews I've seen so far the story for this version is a little lacking but leo is brilliant. I'm still hopeful, I haven't read the story since 10th grade so I won't be too upset when they stray from it. Leo being awesome + aesthetically pleasing should be good enough for me.
 
Looks actually pretty good, plus the soundtrack is pretty impressive to boot. I'll probably see it eventually
 
The book was pretty neat, however the first few chapters were fairly slow, but I'm sure it will be better in the movie. I like the music that's on the trailers, I'd say it will be good
 
he's different, and i always like to see different stuff in theaters, but its already at like a40% on tomatometer, probably not going to be worth shit except the novelty of watching a movie about a book youve read.
 
yeah ill see it. I actually like the book but both the movies weren't very good. Ive got high hopes for this one
 
One of my favorite of the classic books but I feel like the movie is gonna be shit. I reread the book last week and I have tickets to see it tomorrow at 11PM so lets hope its good.
 
flapper chicks are insanely hot, but i'd rather pay to watch a new hope for the three hundred and first time than see another hollywood jizz load sloppily strewn together just to make money off of someone else' idea
 
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