Having a favourite film is an almost impossible notion for someone who has seen too many and loves films.
You can have favourites, but picking just one is illogical, so I agree with you.
That’s exactly how I felt! It wasn’t a bad film, by any means, but I was very disturbed. The film had very interesting sound design.
I’m curious about the upcoming film version of The Great Gatsby. I read the book about ten times a few years ago when I was preparing for an exam on it, and the first stills from the movie started emerging towards the end of that. So I’ve been sort of keeping an eye on news about it since then.
It looks interesting, although I’m worried the trailers don’t make sense to anyone who hasn’t read the book. The later trailers do a better job of explaining things. That said, I’ve noticed they give away a pretty big plot point ([spoil]Myrtle getting hit by the car[/spoil]) in some of them. I’m also worried that they might’ve changed [spoil]Daisy’s[/spoil] characterisation, but obviously it’s hard to tell from a few trailers and TV spots.
The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books of all time.But I am not looking forward to the movie.
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Why the friggen f do they have a Kanye West song and all these other modern songs in the trailer? That just annoys me to no end.
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I’m not a fan of the directors other films in the first place (Romeo + Juliet, Australia, Moulin Rouge).
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The trailer just looked bad.
I know I’m being harsh, but I can already tell that this version is going to fill me with rage.
I think I read an interview with the director where he said he wanted to use popular modern music because the original book had references to popular music of its own time. I guess he’s not interested in making a straightfoward period piece. Personally I don’t mind the modern music, although I’m worried they won’t intergrate it into the movie well. They’ve been hyping up the soundtrack a lot, so I’m worried they might overdo it in the movie itself.
The only one of his movies I’ve seen in full was Romeo + Juliet, which I thought was okay. But it’s harder to judge that one seeing as the script was pre-existing. I did watch the Nostalgia Critic Moulin Rouge review, which obviously isn’t a substitute for the real thing, but it did draw attention to the weird editing. I hope this movie isn’t like that.
Even if the movie turns out horrible I’m still curious about it 
I know there have been previous adaptations, though I haven’t seen any of them.
One thing I find weird about the advertising for this movie is that each of the character posters has a quote from the book on it describing the character or something they say. But the trailers don’t really explain much of the characters. I’m not sure it’s even all that clear that Daisy and Tom are married. The book is pretty well known, but still.
I don’t generally like Baz Luhrmann either, though I do enjoy Moulin Rouge!. This one could go either way, I suppose.
I also hate the use of pop music (in most films, let alone period pieces). And he can try to justify the use talking all he wants about the source, but he can’t fool us. We all know that’s what he loves to do the most. It’s obviously another episode of self-indulgence.
I was just looking at the Wikipedia page for Australia, his last movie, and it says that the film used a jazz soundtrack. Which raises the question of why he didn’t do something similar for this movie. I can think of a few popular singers who could probably do pretty good jazz covers too, so he wouldn’t even need to lose the pop star cred. Some of the songs on the soundtrack do try and sound jazzy, but then they usually bring in something more electronic sounding.
(Speaking of the soundtrack, I like the Florence and the Machine and Lana del Rey songs, although they don’t sound period-appropriate. The will.i.am song is… bad. Surprisingly for me I like’A Little Party Never Killed Nobody’ too.)
Because he loves anachronisms. Both Moulin Rouge! and Romeo+Juliet are odes to that.
Yeah, idk. That’s just not a choice I agree with or appreciate. At all. But it’s his film.
I see what he’s trying to do. But I just can’t get over it. It’s the jazz age. That’s what you think of when you think of Great Gatsby, it goes hand in hand. I just see it as a bastardization of Fitzgerald’s work.
This doesn’t qualify as steampunk, (it may actually), and Usually I like Steampunk. I know things change. But I can’t accept this.
Anybody looking forward to Pain and Gain this Friday? I am, it looks hilarious to me 
I’ve never heard of this!
Well, I’ll wait for reviews before seeing where in my schedule will I put it.
In most cases with Michael Bay films, it’s a pretty low spot on said schedule.
I hate the Great Gatsby the book. All the characters are terrible people. That said, I don’t care about the movie. Moulin Rouge was okay, and I detest R+J. So, I don’t care.
So I attended a trade screening of a certain summer blockbuster last week. Just filed the story yesterday morning at 2:30am, pushed to printers three hours ago after the editor and sub went through it with their scissors and glue.
Can’t wait to see it tomorrow, the page layout is fantastic - my best-looking byline lead yet. I’ll post the published and unedited version after the paper hits my doorstep in five hours’ time. 
Nice, I’ll see it Friday morning. The promotional material looks more promising than any other in the franchise, even The Avengers.
“You’re not suppose to like Daisy Buchanan. At least not in the uncomplicated way you like, say, cupcakes. I don’t know where you got the idea that the quality of a novel should be judged by the likability of its characters, but let me submit to you that Daisy doesn’t have to be likable to be interesting. Furthermore, most of what makes her unlikable, her sense of entitlement, her limited empathy, her inability to make difficult choices are the very things that make YOU unlikable. That’s the challenge and pleasure of reading great novels. You get to see yourself as others see you, and others by how they see themselves.”
-John Green (youtube.com/watch?v=xw9Au9OoN88)
Just because the characters are terrible people DOES NOT make it a terrible book. The Great Gatsby NEEDS those flawed characters to prove the whole point of the book. idk, I agree with John that saying the characters aren’t great is a very weak argument to not liking a book.
The Magic Of Belle Island: This is one of the most boring films I have ever seen. Definitely not worth viewing and I am disappointed that Morgan Freeman acted in this picture.
SoA: Cool, lemme know what you think. There’s a few surprises in store that I have a feeling fans will either love or hate. But I’ll say that it’s more entertaining than the second film!
Well, the second one is easy to best. That one was the weakest.
But I’m actually hoping they can top the first and The Avengers. I think it has the potential, at least.
Hey SoA, so I know you’ve watched Iron Man 3 and were kinda miffed by the [spoil]Mandarin twist[/spoil]. How would you rank the Iron Man films and Avengers?
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Watched Olympus Has Fallen and will write a review time permitting. In the meanwhile, why not check out my review of Iron Man 3 by clicking the angry-looking Tony Stark in my sig? You can also see my published review with my ugly-looking photo byline on my FB page.
I’ll be watching a preview screening of another summer blockbuster this Tuesday, look out for my published review soon! 
In the meantime, I’ve been pumped for the Denzel Washington/Mark Wahlberg action comedy 2 Guns since I saw the spectacular teaser poster (cos’ holding guns in a rain of dollar notes always looks cool!).
The hilarious trailer just made me even more psyched, great use of a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s All Along The Watchtower.
As Filmore, the Hendrix fan, would say: “Respect the classics, maaan!” 