The Great Gatsby

What an intelligent, well thought out response. Go watch the NBA Playoffs troglodyte.

I thought it was amazing. Leonardo was brilliant and superficiality of everything was pretty apparent.

 

Chesbaygrl7,it reminds me of Bill O'Reilly's word of the day.

 

Sarcasm isn't one of your strengths, is it?

 

it sounds bad but is he wrong......it's annoying to watch these all white casts in all these so called blockbusters.

 

Then why are you watching them? Someone holding a gun to your head or something to make you watch them? :smt017

 

"So called?" I'm pretty sure they ARE blockbusters when they make 50 million at the box office in one weekend.

 

What else can you do

All we got us Tyler perry

black film makers either lack the creativity or studio backing to do epic movies with majority black casts

We either get movies about relationships or cheesy b movies

 

I re-read the book recently, and I finished wondering how it could be called the "great American novel". It was good, but I didn't think it was THAT great.

Then I saw the movie today and it just brought the whole book into better perspective for me and by the end of the movie, all I could think of was, "this IS the great American novel".

I thought the movie was amazing, and even if you didn't like the actual story, I would think you could appreciate the visuals and the music. The music was phenomenal.

And Leo was awesome as Gatsby. All of the major actors in the movie were great.

 

surprise

 

I think baz is a phenomenal storyteller and plan on seeing the movie just because its one of his

 

Good one...

 

I would say Huckleberry Finn or Grapes of Wrath even Uncle Tom's Cabin mores so than Gatsby. Decent book but it was kind of short to be what I consider a novel

 

I just didn't enjoy it. There was nothing great about the movie or the book to me. I get the artistic direction that they were trying to go in, but it just did nothing for me. I wasn't impressed by the soundtrack (except for that one Sia song), but I'm not a Jay Z fan at all and I barely listen to any rap anymore.

This movie was 4 hours of 'when will this shit end' in 3D.

 

I thought so, too, at first, but after letting the story sink in, I think it says a lot about a lot in those 170ish pages.

I'm not a fan of Jay-Z either and I didn't roll my eyes when I heard a Beyonce song, but aside from that, I enjoyed it.

To each his own. Art is subjective. Being a wannabe filmmaker, I have come to the realization that you can't and won't please everyone, and that's okay. :smt023

 

I think he was the perfect director for this movie.

 

After I handle some school stuff, I'll to see it again with some friends. Last time I was solo

 

I want to see the film now, just to see who I agree/disagree with. Lol.