The newest movie version of The Great Gatsby looks like a cartoon....

[WCGreen]

Like Sin City. Too stylistic that the style looks as if it will supplant the story.

The controlled dreamy look of the Robert Redford story is in contrast to the frenetic story book and that the style runs over the plot.

[olddots]

1. I'm going to miss it

saw a spot for it on Jon Stewart ---

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The LA Times didn't like it much either:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-great-gatsby-review-20130509,0,175721.story


By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic

May 8, 2013, 3:30 p.m.

"The Great Gatsby" began on paper, with F. Scott Fitzgerald's celebrated novel, and on paper "Gatsby" sounds like quite the film. On screen, though, things start to fall apart.

Directed by razzle-dazzle impresario Baz Luhrmann, this "Gatsby" boasts the charismatic duo of Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan as romantic leads, 3-D as its format, a soundtrack rife with proven hitmakers, a Jazz Age setting and a theme of the American Dream gone sour that still resonates today. Whatever could go wrong? With some exceptions, a whole lot.

Though it is gorgeously written and often cited as one of the great American novels, Fitzgerald's "Gatsby" is in fact very much a slender reed, a tragedy in a minor key. What's problematic in Luhrmann's version is that while his screenplay (co-written with frequent collaborator Craig Pearce) takes pains to parallel the book's tale of Jay Gatsby's star-crossed love for Daisy Buchanan, his filmmaking point of view suffocates beyond resuscitation any dramatic interest the story might have generated.

[WCGreen]

3. I pretty much said the same thing just by looking at the promos...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. They should hire you!

[sarge43]

11. Second that. The sound track alone is a wtf. n/t

[ballardgirl]

17. Summer's Epic Fail

one star by Rolling Stone mag. Their comment on the music: "nothing like hip-hop to add relevance to a retro classic".

From the New Yorker, "“The Great Gatsby”: Try Again, Old Sport"

[Bombero1956]

5. why??

The film was first done in 1926 and then in 1949 with Alan Ladd, then 1974 with Robert Redford, 2000 in a made for TV film and now this year. Plus the soundtrack sounds stupid with Jay-Z, Beyonce, Nero, Gotye, Coco O. of Quadron, Florence + The Machine and will.i.am. Yup those people remind me of the Jazz Age.

[AngryOldDem]

9. Heard the Will.I.Am song a few weeks back.

Piece of crap, IMO. It also has the unfortunate title of "Bang Bang."

[Fearless]

6. Saw it tonight. It was AMAZING.

[tblue]

7. On Hardball today

Chris Matthews showed clips of the same scene from the three GG films, one after the other. See if you can google the clip. It was really a kick! I saw the Redford one in middle school and didn't care much for it. I have no interest in seeing the new one. Just not into it.

[AngryOldDem]

8. I'm going to read a wide range of reviews before making up my mind to see it.

"The Great Gatsby" is my favorite book, so I'm a little sensitive about film treatments. The Redford version was perhaps one of the worst movies I've ever seen. When I saw that Luhrman was directing, I thought that maybe -- MAYBE -- this one might have a chance. But given what I've heard and seen of the soundtrack and the clips, I just don't know.

I wish Hollywood would leave "Gatsby" alone. It is just one of those stories that doesn't translate well to the big screen.

To me, it looks like Moulin Rouge meets West Egg.

If I do go, it will be to wallow in the 1920s culture of fashion and living. I was born 90 years too late.

[Locut0s]

10. Yeah that's the feeling I'm getting so far too...

I'll definitely see how it does on rotten tomatoes before deciding. Is it just me or does Tobey Maguire seem to stick out like a sore thumb even in the trailers?

[femmocrat]

12. I'll wait until it comes out on Netflix.

I think it looks entertaining. Don't understand the 3-D thing though. Are they going to have airborne pearls and cocktail glasses hurling through virtual space at the audience who are wearing those funny red and green glasses?

[6000eliot]

13. I'm going to see it.

As an English professor, I feel it is my duty to see any film based on a literary classic. If you want to see a cartoon of a classic, BTW, rent Beowulf.

[rug]

14. What do you think of the two Bartleby movies?

[6000eliot]

27. I'm unaware of any "Bartleby" movie except a short film I saw in grade school.

It was really boring but did feature the kid who played Greg in The Brady Bunch. It's such a slight story, I'm not sure it would even make a good movie.

[rug]

29. The one with Paul Scofield is good, even if st in 20th century London.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065452/

[HappyMe]

15. I'll wait until it come to On Demand.

I usually pay very little attention to reviews. I would rather just see it for myself and decide or .

[sharp_stick]

16. It's Baz Luhrmann

I think you either like his style or not. It's always pretty anachronistic and over the top. I'm not a big fan of it but my wife really enjoys it.

Because she likes his stuff so much I'll probably go and see it with her, she hates going to movies alone and doesn't really do that kind of thing with friends so I'll suck it up.

[WCGreen]

19. I liked Moulin Rouge! a lot.

It was over the top and a musical so it made some kind of sense.

[sharp_stick]

30. Weirdly so did I

I was so sure I'd hate it that I pre-conceived a disgusted diatribe and it never happened.

That's probably why I'm not all that opposed to seeing Gatsby in this form. It might not hurt matters that I never really enjoyed Gatsby as literature either. I've read it at least 4 times and I've yet to find the magic.

[GCP]

18. The Daily Beast reviewer hated it

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/08/the-great-gatsby-starring-leonardo-dicaprio-is-a-relentless-assault-on-the-senses.html

[WorseBeforeBetter]

28. "Relentless assault on the senses"...

yeah, I gathered that from the commercials alone. I'm not a fan of that type of music, and ODed on Leonardo DiCaprio a lonnnng time ago. Don't think this one will even make it to the Netflix queue!

[WCGreen]

20. Mrs. WC Green suggested what his face take on To Kill A Mocking Bird next

performed in Clown Face Opera Style using B Sides of Random Hits from May of 1967 to January 1973.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. I don't care. I still want to see it, on the Big Screen, too.

[Loryn]

22. Me too!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. here, you can have the seat beside me ...

got any salt?

[Loryn]

25. I'll bring extra!

[Moondog]

24. Meh.

I'll consider it when the DVD shows up in a remainders bin, or on Amazon, for $3.99 or less.

I just don't care for this director's work.

[In_The_Wind]

26. I'll see it at home eventually.

[exxo1111]

31. Not going - hate this director and do not get his critical appeal

I saw Moulin Rouge and thought it was a joke --- just awful!!! Not beautiful, or funny - just over the top. That's all I see, he's just over the top and mixes modern music with a period piece.

Oooooooh?!!!!! Shock, brilliant.

I don't get it at all.

[MrSlayer]

32. I saw the trailer in the movies and thought it looked pretty good.

I'm not going to go out to see it but I will definitely catch it on HBO.

[elleng]

33. Saw the Redford/Farrow version tonight again (netflix.)

I just DON'T like those people, as Nick says at the end. Don't think I'll bother with it again.