So I watched the trailers for the Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby...

[WCGreen]

I don't know, maybe I'm an old fogy but if you go to so much trouble to make it look like the roaring 20's, why do they have to use music from today.

There is so much great and rich music from the time, why would they turn to JazzE?

They go through all this trouble to make it look great and then ignore some of the best American Music ever. It's not called the Jazz Age for no reason.

Anyway, there are some other things that bother me for instance the sets in New York are so clean when we know it was basically filthy. When the Cars go whizzing by, there is no flotsam and jetsam caught in the undertoe...

And it's in 3D.

Well, I guess I'll watch it on the cable.

[JI7]

1. i loved the Robert Redford version and will only watch this in theaters

if reviews are good .

what is the modern music they are playing ? is it still jazz or some pop stuff ?

[WCGreen]

3. Pop stuff....

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. Gatsby in 3D........................... WTF

Its times like this that I hate Hollywood. I thought the book was awesome, and the 1970's movie with Redford was Ok. THIS I will not see. But even worse is committing "On the road" to the big screen. Nothing is sacred when there is a buck to be made. Beatitude be damned evidently.

[WCGreen]

4. Did you happen to watch the movie about Ginsberg Howl...

As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

That's the description from IMDB....

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. yes I did.

And. honestly it could have been worse. Jon Hamm basically playing Don Draper as an attorney was kind of fun. And the animation was excellent. Its not like they really made a movie out of the poem "howl", but rather used Howl to illustrate a portrayal of Ginsberg, so, in that way it passes the purity test. IMHO.

[WCGreen]

6. They put out a Graphic Novel of the movie and I enjoyed that very much...

[Joe Shlabotnik]

7. ..bit confused..

I know that the animator did a bunch of great work for the New Yorker. So i wouldn't be surprised; If not for the animation, the movie would have probably sucked in the overall analysis. Great artist though, I'd love to have some of his city-scape prints framed in my living room.

[LTR]

9. Or, to make it even more truthful and confusing...

John Hamm playing Dick Whitman playing Don Draper playing a lawyer.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

12. lol

It was the fur selling, backyard auto enthusiast, Korean war deserter, straight man amidst a beatnik crowd, son of a prostitute, jet setting, Jaguar XKE hawking character that put the hook in me. But C'mon, nobody's perfect

[JVS]

11. Those car accidents are going to look fantastic. Glad to see Fitzgerald's story done justice.

[LTR]

8. I looked it up - it's a Baz Luhrmann flick

Remember how he had cast members singing Nirvana and Elton John songs in "Moulin Rouge", and made one of the most obnoxious movies of all time in the process? Sounds like he's at it again. Not my thing, but some people love it.

[WCGreen]

10. I actually enjoyed that movie because it was so over the top....

That kind of material makes for a toss off movie.

But Gatsby, one of the best American Novels, doesn't deserve Baz Luhrmann....