The Great Gatsby

With Tim Hopkins as Gatsby?

I went looking for my copy of tender is the night to run through that another (a sixth? a seventh?) time but I must have given it away again (the sixth time? the seventh time?)

must pick it up again today

I read 'the last tycoon' a while back and it read as you'd expect: a touch bitty and piecemeal, not entire

a dizzylingly great writer

But Gatsby: a classic, a masterwork, etc. I had to read it in high school then again for a college course, but haven’t revisited it since. Will have to correct that.

Something interesting that a college prof pointed out when we were studying Gatsby was the fact that Fitz endlessly employed the word “careless” and its variations to describe Daisy.

New movie version by...Baz Luhrmann. Hm.

i've really been meaning to reread this. can't imagine it making a good film, though.

oh goody it'll be a campy genre-bending epic

I reread it every couple of years and it's different each time, if you know what I mean.

obv Hugh Jackman will be Gatz, right? Musical or not?

I couldn't help but picture Robert Downey Jr. in the role when I read it.

which role?

Daisy Buchanan.

Gatsby = RDJ

Tom Buchanan = Puddy from Seinfeld

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.

One of the worst movies ever made --- top ten bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rARN6agiW7o

or Apple Trailers: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegreatgatsby/

ugh ugh make it go away

Tom Buchanan = Puddy from Seinfeld

that said this would have been genius casting

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

haha

way too much COLOR imo

kill it with fire

Would rather see a high-school Gatsby by the guy who directed Brick.

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.

this is a gatbsy that speaks to the way we live today though, morbs

leo actually might not be terrible

i imagine it'll be hard to tell

zebra in the pool you know it's gonna be a party

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.

this is a baz lurhmann movie

and it'll be that

more over the top than ever before, etc etc

ugh.

i really cannot stand carey mulligan

don't know why

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.

she was good in that episode of Doctor Who. It's all been downhill since though

more over the top than ever before, etc etc

― 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. . .

Carey Mulligan is a good actor BUT she's doing contemporary Hollywood films, so suckage.

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, May 23, 2012 12:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Have we forgotten Australia so quickly?

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.

Scrunchy Face might work if cast as Daisy.

and 3D!!!!

'gatsby' just doesn't make for good film material, IMO.

ugh I hope that's not really what the soundtrack is like
not sure if I have a crush on Tobey Maguire anymore either

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."

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.

'gatsby' just doesn't make for good film material, IMO.

― (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

Just needs to be Gatsby! the musical instead.