The Great Gatsby (2012)

[Elaine M.M. Bell]

*At last!  A reason to live until Christmas!  Even though I know Gatsby
2012 cannot hope to improve on the brilliant Redford/Farrow/Waterson
treatment, I* * can't resist any attempt at appreciating what is, arguably,
the finest American novel of all time.  So besotted **am I with this tale**,
that I have even gone so far as to watch the truly awful "G"...and I
watched the WHOLE thing!  Then I had to take a long bath and a couple of
shots of Jim Beam.*

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've not seen that one and would like to, as opposed to this one which I
> have no interest in.
>
> I was thinking for a second about DiCaprio's career, and it could be that
> shit like this Gatsby get done because that, it appears, is what he likes.
>  Which could be because he's a classy actor and only does decent roles,
> which in Hollywood are mostly this sort of thing?
>
> Happened to catch Dark Shadows yesterday.  Burton is such a great
> director, why doesn't he do adult films?
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I liked the one from 1974 w/ Robert Redford & Mia Farrow.  I always
>> wonder why people remake films (I know this is really a book) that
>> were done so well the first time.
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Madeleine Maudlin
>> <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If Gatsby looked like Leonardo he never would have died.  Even bullets
>> and a
>> > pool could not have gutted him.
>> >
>> > Nice redux of the U2.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Dave Monroe <
>> against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARN6agiW7o
>> >>
>> >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/
>> >>
>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(2012_film)
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>


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