"I say, has anyone seen the great Gatsby, Old Sports ?" Topic

What did you think ?

I found the soundtrack…jarring.

Also saw it in 2D and got really fed up with the filmed to look good in 3D scenes – snow floating around people's faces, swooping "flying shots" – that sort of thing.

Did they get the tanks right?

The vehicles were great (some of the CGI driving was a bit hard to believe).

The houses – also very good.

Couldn't fault the tug boats either.

But the Sherman's taking out Gatsby's Panther – do they really think no-one knows about the 1920s at all ? Should have been all tankettes and carriers.

I'm mostly wondering if they stuck to the story, or juiced it to make it pretty and give it a happy ending.

Wouldn't cross the street for a free viewing.

Bas Luhrmann – Legend in his own Lunchtime!

Five films in 21 years and wouldn't know an Edit if it bit him! Most over rated Director ever!

Typical Baz Luhrmann fluff piece. Since you asked for it, check out my review of it here (it's right below Star Trek Into Darkness):

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I despise Baz Luhrman and everything he does. The only decent thing to come out of this abomination is the Gatsby Collection at Brooks Brothers.

I dug the tugboats, but the zeppelin sequence was too 'Michael Bay' for me… how did they do that 3D explosion when the cells started bursting and Daisy gets incinerated along with Josephine Baker as the giant squid reaches for them on the ice floe?

Strange that I never pictured The Great Gatsby as a special FX spectacular. I'm guessing most of it's meaning gets lost in the fireworks and rap music.
I liked Moulin Rouge and Romeo & Juliet though.

I only discovered just how BEAUTIFUL (and cute) Carey M. is only recently by watching "An Education".

But every role since then, she cuts her hair short and dresses dumpy and cries. BLECH!

Since those movies are of no appeal to me anyway, it's no loss, but I wonder if it will affect her career in the long run.

Not saying she has to look beautiful or sexy in all of her movies, but would it be a crime to see her much as she looked in "An Education"?

This movie is from a great American novel? It may be time to review whether F.Scott Fitzgerald was really that good.

I did have a nice little nap during the movie though.

I liked it. I thought they followed the book pretty well, and did not change the ending. May have been some stuff in the middle left out, some of the secondary characters could have used more screen time.

Did not find the music too jarring. I thought it set a mood and a tone for modern audiences to identify with the wild excesses of the time. And thankfully most of the scenes that featured it were short.

I thought the music was great. I'm a fan of neither rap nor jazz music and agree with Jana Wang that it did a good job of mixing the music of the past with the idea of wild parties that audience members would see today.

They did a good job capturing the overall idea of the story, I thought. The acting was very good. Overall not as good as the book but they rarely are or have time to be. It was a good movie version of the story.

meh.

I thought it looked lovely and had good performances, but was a rather long movie for such a short book. My friend fell asleep during it, so he obviously wasn't gripped!

They are presumably marketing it as a chick flick, 'cos the adverts before the movie were wall to wall make-up, hair care and feminine hygiene products! And only one Red Bull advert!