The quick review: I didn’t care for this version, “Old Sport”
I loved the book The Great Gatsby in high school, but it’s been a while so I had forgotten a lot. That said, I want to read the book again one day – this movie didn’t quite capture the heart of the book the way I remember.
If I have to hear “Old Sport” uttered by DiCaprio one more time I think I’m going to die. It gets so annoying that I thought about leaving the theater to escape the catch-phrase hell.
In the book I wanted Daisy to choose Gatsby, but in the film I wanted Daisy to just leave the screen completely or choose Tom already and move along. Tobey Macguire’s Nick Carraway is absolutely boring. I did feel bad that Nick was getting pulled into the whole mess, but at the end I wasn’t sure that he and Gatsby were friends at all – they still seemed distant. I wish Nick would have had more of a favorable reaction to Gatsby and showed a friendship so at least I could feel bad for Nick towards the end.
The random rap didn’t help matters, it was the 20′s not the 2000′s!! Come on!
I will say that the scenery was beautiful! If you ever wanted to attend a Roaring 20′s party then you can feel like you at least got to watch an authentic one. The scenery is the only redeeming quality about this film and that’s how it came to get my rating of a C-.
Without the beautiful scenes I’d have to give it a D+. I won’t say that I hated the film, but I won’t be recommending it to anyone.
IMDB’s overview of The Great Gatsby:
“A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor.”
*Photo borrowed from the IMDB page about The Great Gatsby
I paid to see this movie, and while not a screening I wanted to post anyway. Do you agree? Disagree?
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