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The Great Gatsby? - *insertusernamehere* - 05-15-2013
So I couldn't really find a movie review thread so I'm just gonna post this here.
Did anyone watch The Great Gatsby? Planning on watching it? Don't know if you want to watch it? Either way, this is what I thought about it, it would be cool to hear what others think:
Okay so The Great Gatsby really wasn't that great at all. Too much going on with the visuals, the CGI was ridiculously obvious and overwhelming. Although the music sounded good it didn't really fit imo. I mean its a cool twist but when you stick that close to the book and then throw in this modern music, its just awkward. Did they really have to get Jay-Z to put all that together? Anyways... I felt like some parts were literally being read to me from the book through a movie screen and the reading wasn't that great. It was just this fast line-by-line rambling rather than a masterfully articulated conversation that would have given us the same information necessary to understand the story. I really felt like I was just watching someone's imagination as they read the book, which for me, is poor directing/producing. After about halfway through the movie, when the story started to finally pick up, I was more sucked in and I began to ignore all the little bits that irked the shit out of me and then the movie started to seem better. It was definitely emotional in the latter end and we started to see the actors hone their characters qualities/traits much better.
As for the acting, Leo Dicap was awkward in the beginning to me and I hated the way he said "old sport". I would not have chosen Carrie Mulligan for Daisy. Toby Maguire was actually spot on for Nick Carraway. Speaking of Nick... Did anyone else feel like Nick was just waaayy to homo-erotic about Gatsby? I know Nick thought highly of Gatsby but god damn! I felt like they were about to start humping in the middle of the movie or some shit. I would say all the other actors fit their characters well. Oh yeah, what was up with all their voices? Once again.. feeling like i'm watching someone's imagination.
All in all it was just okay. The story is the story, if you've read the book, you've seen the movie. No variant there, so there's nothing to really say about that. The music was good but not fitting, the visual gave me a headache, acting was weird at parts, some scenes were spot on to how I imagined it from the book and it took half the movie before I began to appreciate anything about the movie. Nothing exceptional or anything to rant/rave about.
Hmmmm, I give it a 3.62/5 :|
Anyone else have any thoughts about it?
Re: The Great Gatsby? - CaptainHenreh - 05-15-2013
Anyone who was expecting the Great Gatsby to be a Great Movie either didn't actually read the book or is an idiot.
Re: The Great Gatsby? - BLINGMW - 05-15-2013
As soon as I heard it was the same guy who did Moulin Rouge (I watched the first half and couldn't take any more) and Romeo & Juliet, I assumed that distracting visuals, bad acting, and bad music would sum it up. SOMEONE out there must think it's art.
Thanks for the review though, now when it's out on redbox and my wife says something about it I can just start screaming before she finishes the sentence.
Re: The Great Gatsby? - WRXtranceformed - 05-15-2013
CaptainHenreh Wrote:Anyone who was expecting the Great Gatsby to be a Great Movie either didn't actually read the book or is an idiot.:lol:
This movie was set up to fail before it started filming. There was nothing particularly good about the book's storyline.
Everyone knows that The Count of Monte Cristo was the best old school book about baller rich guys.
Re: The Great Gatsby? - Apoc - 05-15-2013
I loved Moulin Rouge and was looking forward to Great Gatsby. I was horribly, horribly disappointed.
Re: The Great Gatsby? - G.Irish - 05-15-2013
I thought it was ok. If it were totally up to me I wouldn't have seen it in theaters but it didn't leave me wanting to walk out. It was an average movie to me. I too, found the modern hip hop distracting and incongruent. It worked in Django Unchained, didn't work in Gatsby.
Re: The Great Gatsby? - *insertusernamehere* - 05-15-2013
G.Irish Wrote:I thought it was ok. If it were totally up to me I wouldn't have seen it in theaters but it didn't leave me wanting to walk out. It was an average movie to me. I too, found the modern hip hop distracting and incongruent. It worked in Django Unchained, didn't work in Gatsby.
It fit so much better in django that i don't even remember it. Just goes to show who knows how to make a good movie.
Re: The Great Gatsby? - Sully - 05-15-2013
Haven't seen it yet but this directors style seems to be take the words from the book and make the characters say the same thing word for word. Hence why Romeo & Juliet was so hard to follow if you didn't speak Victorian (Shakespearean) English
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