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Gatsby..."The Great"
Gabe - wrote on 05/11/2013
Two things I must admit, 1. I love this book. It truly is "The Great American Novel." 2. I've never seen a film by Baz Luhrmann before.
Now that that is out of the way, wow, what can I say. First, I was quite disappointed in this film. I had extremely high expectations and they weren't even close to being met. I know this is Luhrmann's schtick, but he went way over the top on the production of this film. It's as if he had a million ideas in his head and he said, "Fuck It! I'm gonna use them all!" Bad choice, he needed an editor or at least someone to tell him that sometimes we need to tone things down some.
Now, things I liked, DiCaprio is great. I truly felt that he was Gatsby. Since it's only May, you could argue that DiCaprio deserves some extremely early Oscar buzz. …
