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Harmsway Potential 00 Agent
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| Subject: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 2:42 am | |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 2:44 am | |
| Looks like trash. And who the hell wants to see THE GREAT GATSBY in 3D? :roll: |
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Jack Wade Head of Station
Posts : 2014 Member Since : 2011-03-15 Location : Uranus
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 3:04 am | |
| Looks somewhat stylish, at least. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 3:05 am | |
| All of Baz Luhrmann's films are slick, stylish trash. |
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Harmsway Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 3:08 am | |
| I don't hate Luhrmann like many here. I still stand by MOULIN ROUGE! (throw tomatoes if you must).
But his AUSTRALIA was one of the worst films I've seen in recent years. And this... I'm not sure. It might be entertaining big-screen spectacle, or it might be AUSTRALIA PART II. At any rate, Luhrmann's adaptation certainly doesn't seem to have captured the existential elements of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 3:50 am | |
| Ugh. What really bugged me was the lack of color, it looks too desaturated. Maybe I'm too attached to my own interpretation, I always imagined it looking like a painting, especially the descriptions of the coast early in the book. Been a decade since I read it. If the trailer did anything for me, it made me wanna pick up the book again.
I had an idea way back in high school. At the time when I was reading the novel, I was also playing GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY and I sort of imagined an alternative GREAT GATSBY and setting in the 1980s, no machine gun sequences of course. But I thought if there had been too many 1920s set films done and that I wanted to make my own adaptation I'd set it in the 1980s to differentiate itself from the rest but still keep the integrity of the story. Also, alcohol = coke.
Or just stick with the 1920s. |
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bondfan06 'R'
Posts : 339 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 11:18 am | |
| Only a Luhrmann film can have a trailer with Kanye West. |
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Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 00 Agent
Posts : 8477 Member Since : 2010-05-12 Location : Strawberry Fields
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 12:50 pm | |
| Saw this earlier today. Carey Mulligan and Leo are a great as the leads (based as the trailer). But I'm very disappointed with this, even though I guessed that he was going to mess up Gatsby too. It's too busy, and the music is rubbish. I'll probably go and see it, but I don't think we'll get a properly adapted Gatsby.
Actually, it just occurred to me that a Mendes/Deakins collaboration may just give as a proper Gatsby. But then again, Leo and Mulligan are virtually perfect. |
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Jack Wade Head of Station
Posts : 2014 Member Since : 2011-03-15 Location : Uranus
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 2:35 pm | |
| - bondfan06 wrote:
- Only a Luhrmann film can have a trailer with Kanye West.
It's a good song. |
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trevanian Head of Station
Posts : 1958 Member Since : 2011-03-15 Location : Pac NW
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 11:30 pm | |
| I wonder if they'll spell OCULIST right this time. I think that had to have been part of the inspiration for Jack Clayton's window-bashing on the last feature version.
I watched the trailer small, w/o sound, and all I took away from it is that Leo actually looked like he was doing good acting in one shot where he is apparently looking at Daisy. Not enough to interest me, though MOULIN was a good draining emotional ride the first few times. |
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Wed May 23, 2012 11:47 pm | |
| I've never been a Luhrmann fan, but this looks pretty decent. I'll give it a whirl. |
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j7wild Head of Station
Posts : 2038 Member Since : 2011-09-10
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Thu May 24, 2012 9:11 pm | |
| Carey as Daisy?
Did they not learn anything from her awful wooden acting in Wall Street Money Never Sleeps and Drive?
Leo again?
Is he the only actor available to play these roles?
He sucked as J. Edgar Hoover and as Howard Hughes because no matter how much make up you put on him and how you dress him, he will always look like a teenage kid!!
Now he is Jay Gasby?
What's next for him?
J.F.K.? |
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Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 00 Agent
Posts : 8477 Member Since : 2010-05-12 Location : Strawberry Fields
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Thu May 24, 2012 9:43 pm | |
| He was great at Howard Hughes, and Mulligan is proving to be a very capable actress. Personally, I thought she was brilliant in Drive, An Education and Never Let Me Go. |
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CJB 00 Agent
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| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 12:53 am | |
| Can't stand Luhrmann. Australia was the biggest pile of shit I've ever had the misfortune of sitting through. Putting aside the blatant ahistorical bulldust and left-wing soppiness, it felt like three hours of poorly-written nothingness teeming with a bunch of characters who are about as interesting as fleas. And come on... black people with magic powers... I thought these liberal doofuses were meant to be anti-racist. |
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The White Tuxedo 00 Agent
Posts : 6062 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : ELdorado 5-9970
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 4:50 am | |
| So pretty. Oh, and there's Carey Mulligan. |
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Makeshift Python 00 Agent
Posts : 7656 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : You're the man now, dog!
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 5:04 am | |
| I got into an internet argument over Carey Mulligan's casting on another forum. I basically said she didn't do anything for me, looked too boyish, and elaborated that her casting reminded me of Maggie Gyllenhaal's casting in THE DARK KNIGHT and that they could find a better looking actress. Everyone on the thread reacted like I was insane to think that way of Mulligan. I'm sure she's a great actress, she seems to be the critics darling, but I really find it hard for me to believe someone would lose his shit over a girl that looked like her. Same thing with having a hard time Bruce Wayne would give up Batman for Gyllenhaal and that Harvey Dent would go insane over her death. I guess I'm just thinking too much with my penis. |
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Louis Armstrong Q Branch
Posts : 853 Member Since : 2010-05-25
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 6:16 am | |
| I think Carey Mulligan looks good (I remember Tux compared her to Nathan Lane once though, and I can see that, too) - she reminds me a bit of Shirley Maclaine. I still haven't seen her in anything, I've been flip-flopping on whether to watch Drive. As for Maggie Gyllenhaal, I like her too but I can't really explain why. She looks a lot better on film than in stills.
Whether either of those gals are worth losing one's shit over, I don't know. |
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trevanian Head of Station
Posts : 1958 Member Since : 2011-03-15 Location : Pac NW
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 6:07 pm | |
| - Makeshift Python wrote:
- I got into an internet argument over Carey Mulligan's casting on another forum. I basically said she didn't do anything for me, looked too boyish, and elaborated that her casting reminded me of Maggie Gyllenhaal's casting in THE DARK KNIGHT and that they could find a better looking actress. Everyone on the thread reacted like I was insane to think that way of Mulligan. I'm sure she's a great actress, she seems to be the critics darling, but I really find it hard for me to believe someone would lose his shit over a girl that looked like her. Same thing with having a hard time Bruce Wayne would give up Batman for Gyllenhaal and that Harvey Dent would go insane over her death.
I guess I'm just thinking too much with my penis. This kind of back&forth must go on every generation. I steered clear of Clayton's GATSBY for 20 years because Mia Farrow looked to me more like Redford's specially coiffed mutt than the Daisy I remembered from the novel in H.S. When I finally saw it, I still thought she was wrong for it, but it didn't wreck the movie for me. I wonder if GETTING STRAIGHT will get released on DVD to tie in with this. The end of that movie hinges on Elliot Gould's inquisition by elder teachers over his becoming tenured, and it all revolves around GATSBY, and Gould's total non-connect with the Carroway/Gatsby homoerotic aspect. It was no great shakes as a movie, but anything about campus protest from the actual era is still of some interest to me. |
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Vesper Head of Station
Posts : 1097 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Flavour country
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 8:56 pm | |
| I still think you'd need to cast someone with an indefinable but widely appealling screen presence a la Marilyn Monroe to effectively cast Daisy Galloway. Suffice to say that Mulligan doesn't come close to that level. She has the sex appeal of a cold fish.
Film looks... meh. It could go either way. Though I like how they used the role of Rothstein/Wolfsheim to shove in a minority, though I suppose Lurhmann can get away with it. I think Lurhmann will probably do the party scenes in a decent manner but I don't think his style is right for the rest of the book at all.
The chick playing Jordan is bangable.
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Fri May 25, 2012 9:02 pm | |
| - Makeshift Python wrote:
- looked too boyish,
To be fair -- women who looked boyish were what was considered attractive in 1922. Personally I quite like Mulilgan and think that, on paper, she could be quite good in the role. Same with DiCaprio and Maguire. Overall it's good casting. For me it's Luhrmann who's the X factor, because I've never enjoyed his movies. But to be honest I liked this trailer so I'm gonna give this a chance. |
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The White Tuxedo 00 Agent
Posts : 6062 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : ELdorado 5-9970
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Sat May 26, 2012 1:27 am | |
| Carey Mulligan doesn't look bad to me, I just enjoy a cheap shot every once in a while.
Hey, if they make Young Bond movies, I say Mulligan for the young M.
Female M, not Sir Miles. |
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Vesper Head of Station
Posts : 1097 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Flavour country
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:09 pm | |
| THE GREAT GATSBY, Scored by Jay-Z.
I am not kidding. |
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Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 00 Agent
Posts : 8477 Member Since : 2010-05-12 Location : Strawberry Fields
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:49 pm | |
| Yeah I read about that....
I'm annoyed with the modernising of the Gatsby. I was looking forward to a great jazzy soundtrack to compliment the perfect casting of Di Caprio and Mulligan. Unfortunately, it seems like it's trying to grab younger audiences and swinging in the same direction as the casting of Spiderman in a lead role. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:10 pm | |
| Craig Armstrong's still writing the score. Shawn Carter's just doing a few songs and maybe a bit of underscore. |
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Fairbairn-Sykes Head of Station
Posts : 2296 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Calgary, Canada
| Subject: Re: The Great Gatsby (2012) Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:18 pm | |
| Also you cant qualify casting Tobey Maguire as an attempt to appeal to kids -- you may recall they replaced him as Spider Man because, yknow, he doesnt appeal to kids anymore lol. |
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