"A single green light, minute and far away..."

YaYa

I am unreasonably pumped for this movie

but @Poorochondriac has made me feel a modicum of shame about my pumpedness

Blake T

I like, have so much trouble with Baz Lurham.

It's not that I dislike him (or even the colour composition like pooro said, I enjoy it!) I just feel that choosing modern songs in period settings really doesn't help catch the style of the movies that he is going for?

Like what I loved about Gatsby was how it did describe their decadence and their parties and I feel setting it to modern music is really going to really make it miss the mark in that respect.

Blake T

Yaya I watched your movie.

Grey Ghost

Is the music that will be playing in the actual movie going to be modern stuff though?

Poorochondriac

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Is the music that will be playing in the actual movie going to be modern stuff though?

Given his filmography, almost definitely

YaYa

Blake T wrote: »

Yaya I watched your movie.

that sounds ominous

sorry about the DVD quality

YaYa

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Is the music that will be playing in the actual movie going to be modern stuff though?

they released the soundtrack tracklist and it's all modern stuff

Langly

the soundtrack was produced by Jay-Z and Anton Monstead

Blake T

YaYa wrote: »

Blake T wrote: »

Yaya I watched your movie.

that sounds ominous

sorry about the DVD quality

It's ok. The storyline isn't something I would usually watch and it was obviously done with a lower budget but it was entertaining and the direction/shot selection was good. (Some of the writing was a little corny but I did like the "forum conversation")

Gatsby

My friend was an extra as a dancer and party-goer in one of the huge extravagant scenes

They apparently used party rock anthem for it

ASimPerson

Given another 20 years of work, Baz Luhrman will have mostly covered my high school English class reading list.

So get crackin' on East of Eden, Baz.

Gatsby

In twenty years Baz Luhrman will reimagine his reimagining of Romeo and Juliet.

UnbreakableVow

YaYa wrote: »

I am unreasonably pumped for this movie

but Poorochondriac has made me feel a modicum of shame about my pumpedness

Man, don't let him get you down

Also I am pumped for this based simply on the director and cast

I suppose I should get around to seeing the Robert Redford version at some point

Lalabox

My siblings got the the romeo and juliet film out last year. I sat down with them because I kinda liked it when we studied it in year 8 or something, watched a bit of the first scene and decided to peace out on them. It hadn't held up all that well at all.

Gatsby

Mercutio and Tybalt are still my favourite parts of that movie.

YaYa

soooooo this is apparently getting savaged in early reviews

I am trying to work out how bad the reception would have to be to keep me from seeing it in theatres

if Ebert came back from the dead and told me 'hey this movie will literally boot your junk' then that might be enough to keep me away

Munkus Beaver

YaYa wrote: »

soooooo this is apparently getting savaged in early reviews

I am trying to work out how bad the reception would have to be to keep me from seeing it in theatres

if Ebert came back from the dead and told me 'hey this movie will literally boot your junk' then that might be enough to keep me away

Using 3D imaging we see that Ebert was point toward The Great Gatsby with one hand and a vacuum cleaner with the other.

Using this information, we can conclude his final review:

This movie sucks.

Poorochondriac

From the Variety review:

"...Luhrmann has complete sentences from the novel appear typed out on the screen — a gimmick explained by a framing device that situates Carraway in a sanitarium, recounting the tale of Gatsby to a captivated shrink (Jack Thompson) who encourages him to write the story down."

Hahahahahahaha, fuuuuuuuuuuck that

101

thats, uh

hmmmm

weird.

Langly

wut

Tam

that sounds dumm

PiptheFair

Poorochondriac wrote: »

From the Variety review:

"...Luhrmann has complete sentences from the novel appear typed out on the screen — a gimmick explained by a framing device that situates Carraway in a sanitarium, recounting the tale of Gatsby to a captivated shrink (Jack Thompson) who encourages him to write the story down."

Hahahahahahaha, fuuuuuuuuuuck that

I'm dying squirtle

101

Are those lines also being spoken by the actors at the same time, or are they there to add more information?

Hunter

101 wrote: »

Are those lines also being spoken by the actors at the same time, or are they there to add more information?

They're being communicated via semaphore

YaYa

oh fuck

umm

okay I may be seguing from 'gotta see this think it'll be great' to 'gotta see this gonna be a trainwreck'

UnbreakableVow

Goddammit

I was hoping Australia was a fluke and not the new norm

HyperBallad

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Goddammit

I was hoping Australia was a fluke and not the new norm

*in very ocker Aussie accent, ala @Tef * "Gotta problem wiv dat there mate?"

Munkus Beaver

Poorochondriac wrote: »

From the Variety review:

"...Luhrmann has complete sentences from the novel appear typed out on the screen — a gimmick explained by a framing device that situates Carraway in a sanitarium, recounting the tale of Gatsby to a captivated shrink (Jack Thompson) who encourages him to write the story down."

Hahahahahahaha, fuuuuuuuuuuck that

Oh Jesus.

Now we get to hear about nerds arguing whether the sub or dub version of Gatsby was better.

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I only remember two things from his romeo + juliet movie

one was the dude grabbing a gun and calling it a sword because it's the present but we're still talking shakespeare talk

and the other was a dude licking his own nipple

Mortal Sky

Romeo + Juliet was one of my favorite movies ever
But then besides a few funny shots in Moulin Rouge, I hated it

Baz Luhrmann's evidently so polarizing even I have no idea what to make of the dude

The Geebs That Is A Pony

"man licking own nipple" should be the name of his production studio is all I'm saying

Speed Racer

final reveal is that it's actually Zelda Fitzgerald who is hallucinating that she is Nick Carroway thus the sanitorium

Lost Salient

Speed Racer wrote: »

final reveal is that it's actually Zelda Fitzgerald who is hallucinating that she is Nick Carroway thus the sanitorium

I for one will watch this

Antimatter

Speed Racer wrote: »

final reveal is that it's actually Zelda Fitzgerald who is hallucinating that she is Nick Carroway thus the sanitorium

bring back the awesome posts forum for this post

Antimatter

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2013/05/13/130513crci_cinema_denby

David Denby on “The Great Gatsby”: “Luhrmann’s vulgarity is designed to win over the young audience, and it suggests that he’s less a filmmaker than a music-video director with endless resources and a stunning absence of taste.”

Gatsby

Dammit Luhrmann

Langly

gatsby why are you being so vulgar

Grey Ghost

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

YaYa wrote: »

I am unreasonably pumped for this movie

but Poorochondriac has made me feel a modicum of shame about my pumpedness

Man, don't let him get you down

Also I am pumped for this based simply on the director and cast

I suppose I should get around to seeing the Robert Redford version at some point

Don't!
It is awful and stilted and awkward
And then you think, well, once Redford shows up we'll kick it into high gear!
But no, he is the most uncomfortable person in the whole movie

Langly

this is just what they were complaining about

Balefuego

I wanted to make a post about how the trailer for this is the most Baz Luhrman ever crammed into 2 minutes of ridiculous nonsense set to anachronistic pop covers but my spirit animal Pooro was way ahead of me