i've really been meaning to reread this. can't imagine it making a good film, though.
― J.D., Friday, 19 December 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh goody it'll be a campy genre-bending epic
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 December 2008 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I reread it every couple of years and it's different each time, if you know what I mean.
― Meat ROFL (suzy), Friday, 19 December 2008 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
obv Hugh Jackman will be Gatz, right? Musical or not?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I couldn't help but picture Robert Downey Jr. in the role when I read it.
― SongOfSam, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
which role?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Daisy Buchanan.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Gatsby = RDJ
Tom Buchanan = Puddy from Seinfeld
― SongOfSam, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Read Gatsby in 11th grade, but don't remember if I liked it or not. I actually liked the Robert Redford adaptation of the book.
― musicfanatic, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
One of the worst movies ever made --- top ten bad.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rARN6agiW7o
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
or Apple Trailers: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegreatgatsby/
ugh ugh make it go away
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
that said this would have been genius casting
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
i had never read this book, but then i read it the other day, p good, glad i got in in time to be outraged @ new vers
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
way too much COLOR imo
kill it with fire
Would rather see a high-school Gatsby by the guy who directed Brick.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
There's been a 7-hour stage version that had a couple diff runs in NYC in the last year, in which the actors read every word on an office set.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
this is a gatbsy that speaks to the way we live today though, morbs
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
leo actually might not be terrible
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
i imagine it'll be hard to tell
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
zebra in the pool you know it's gonna be a party
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
If anything, I give Baz credit for persuading Leo to shave that scraggly fuzz off his face. That's as far as I'm going, though.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
this is a baz lurhmann movie
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
and it'll be that
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
more over the top than ever before, etc etc
ugh.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
i really cannot stand carey mulligan
don't know why
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Baz Lurhmann films have a built-in audience (of people who've seen previous Baz Lurhmann films) and little more. This won't flop, but it won't be a blockbuster either and will probably max out at some costume and cinematography nominations come awards season.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
she was good in that episode of Doctor Who. It's all been downhill since though
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tomorrow we'll run faster, stretch out our budgets farther. . .
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Carey Mulligan is a good actor BUT she's doing contemporary Hollywood films, so suckage.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Have we forgotten Australia so quickly?
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if it was just me but it seemed like there was a lot of cgi going on for no good reason.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Scrunchy Face might work if cast as Daisy.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
and 3D!!!!
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
'gatsby' just doesn't make for good film material, IMO.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
ugh I hope that's not really what the soundtrack is likenot sure if I have a crush on Tobey Maguire anymore either
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah -- it's like filming "The Eve of Saint Agnes" or "The Bridge." I don't know who'd want to watch this beside masochists thinking "I want to see the train wreck."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
there's much more action in that 1.5 minute trailer than there is in the book.
i kinda want to see this train wreck.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
particularly not these days - it could probably be a pretty good low-key, black and white movie, but that'd be box office suicide
just watched kubrick's lolita the other night and hated it, not looking good for film adaptations of my favorite books. maybe that paradise lost thing won't suck, assuming that ever gets made
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
Just needs to be Gatsby! the musical instead.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah for real it already looks like Chicago (musical)
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
besides its lyricism the novel's innovation lies in its structure. Film could reproduce the structure but not without attenuating the momentum -- and there's now way to render even in filmic terms what Fitzgerald accomplishes.
And we've already got a film version of the Gatsby story: Citizen Kane.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Ten minutes of a camera shot of a big pair of eyes on a billboard.
"Art!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
Movies are never as good as books, unless the book is bad to begin with.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel), Baz Luhrmann (screenplay),
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also the other versions of the great gatsby
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
i'm actually a big fan of kubrick's 'lo' (tho the book is better) but it's sort of one of those extremely unlikely things that somehow worked out (for me anyway) -- 'lolita' the book seems even less suitable for filming than 'gatsby.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link