The Great Gatsby (2012)

[Alex Colter]

Luhrmann can be pretty fun after a fat Reefer... be curious to see how this
turns out, but I don't have my hopes up.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Elaine M.M. Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com>wrote:

> *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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