It's my favorite book, I'm kind of nervous.

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Originally posted by Lews In my experience, most people either love or hate Luhrmann films. I know a lot of critics disliked Gatsby, but, personally, I loved it. Leo did a fantastic job of playing Gatsby, the vast majority of the other actors did stellar jobs, as well, it stayed pretty true to the book while clearly being an original telling, and, of course, it was so fucking beautiful. Probably going to see it again next weekend, in 3D this time

My biggest issues were really the score, and Tobey Maguire as the narrator. The score was completely detracting, and while I get the point of trying to "modernize" the story, the score itself did the movie absolutely no favors.

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Originally posted by enydo My biggest issues were really the score, and Tobey Maguire as the narrator. The score was completely detracting, and while I get the point of trying to "modernize" the story, the score itself did the movie absolutely no favors.

See, I didn't find the score detracting in the latest. It's a movie about decadence, ostentation, and gaudiness (and obviously a ton of other things), and the soundtrack, to me, worked perfectly with that.

Also, as I told Kevin, I hate Tobey Maguire, but I also hate Nick Carraway, so he worked perfectly for me

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Different strokes, I guess. I might just be overly critical, but damn. When the superimposed typewriter script started showing up I was like lololol.

Also, the car on the bridge with all black people partying with a crateful of Moet. LOL.

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Originally posted by enydo Different strokes, I guess. I might just be overly critical, but damn. When the superimposed typewriter script started showing up I was like lololol.

*shrug* everyone's got their own preferences. I went in wanting a beautifully shot Great Gatsby and that's exactly what I got.

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Originally posted by enydo Also, the car on the bridge with all black people partying with a crateful of Moet. LOL.

That's the thing, I was laughing my ass off at this. Shit was hilarious, as was basically the whole first half of the movie, before shit got cereal.

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The one thing I can say they nailed for SURE are the sets and the visuals. The whole green light and houses across the bay thing looked spectacular. I'm sure it looked even better in 3D since the movie was so painfully, obviously shot/edited to feature it.

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Originally posted by enydo The one thing I can say they nailed for SURE are the sets and the visuals. The whole green light and houses across the bay thing looked spectacular. I'm sure it looked even better in 3D since the movie was so painfully, obviously shot/edited to feature it.

I thought they nailed the casting as well. Leo just totally fits Gatsby in my mind: beautiful, suave, charming, and inherently disturbed and depressed.

Definitely looking forward to seeing it again, in 3D this time.

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I dug this tbh:

Haha, I like Lana Del Rey in general.

ah nothing beats being off by a week... thought i turned in a draft of this research paper next tuesday, nope, thats tmrw.

Also have to write a proposal tonight too for another research paper (well the same paper, just a different proposal lol).

Yay.