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billyweeds
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 7:32 pm Reply with quote
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bartist wrote:
PETER TRAVERS calls it a crushing disappointment? I've never heard him do anything but suck up to movies like some kind of media harlot, so if HE doesn't like it, it must make Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Rear Window.



Rex Reed must have read this post. This from his Gatsby review:

"With the phoniest set of performances this side of an Ed Wood flick, you might as well be watching Plan 9 From Outer Space."
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marantzo
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 7:38 pm Reply with quote
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Syd
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billyweeds wrote:
bartist wrote:
PETER TRAVERS calls it a crushing disappointment? I've never heard him do anything but suck up to movies like some kind of media harlot, so if HE doesn't like it, it must make Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Rear Window.



Rex Reed must have read this post. This from his Gatsby review:

"With the phoniest set of performances this side of an Ed Wood flick, you might as well be watching Plan 9 From Outer Space."


That sounds promising.

This probably doesn't pertain to this version of "The Great Gatsby," but to the Robert Redford version: If the publicity about "The Great Gatsby" is about the butter sculptures, the directors have missed the point of the novel. Assuming there was a point.

Similarly, if the publicity about "A Little Night Music" is about the costumes, something is seriously wrong.

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billyweeds
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 5:02 am Reply with quote
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No, the Reed quote is about the current production, though he takes time out to bash the Redford version as well. Seems to like the Alan Ladd version, which is apparently unseeable because of legal complications. Reed particularly slams Tobey Maguire. You can't trust Reed, who is a twit, but in this case I think he may have a point.
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:37 am Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
No, the Reed quote is about the current production,
I know. I wasn't referring to his review.

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Ghulam
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 1:01 pm Reply with quote
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Seems it is a good Bollywood movie, but without songs and dances.


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Marc
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:22 pm Reply with quote
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Ghulam is right. If GATSBY had songs and dances it would be Bollywood and probably great. DEVDAS.
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:45 pm Reply with quote
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I too was thinking of Devdas.


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marantzo
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:47 pm Reply with quote
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Is Devdas the name of a Bollywood movie?
Ghulam
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 11:59 pm Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
Is Devdas the name of a Bollywood movie?


Yes, based on a Bengali classic, and made into a movie three times. The last one that Marc was referring to was a gaudy, no expense spared, Luhrmann-caffeinated bonanza.
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marantzo
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:00 am Reply with quote
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Thanks Ghulam.
Marj
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:33 pm Reply with quote
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Befade wrote:
Briefly.......I will be the voice of dissent. I and all the people I was with LOVED The Great Gatsby.


And I will join you. I will put the word, love into lowercase, however.

I don't understand all the dislike, with one exception. Toby McGuire was totally miscast, and became too important in the entire screenplay.

I ought to add, I didn't see it in 3D. I think I lucked out.
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marantzo
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:08 pm Reply with quote
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I'm beginning to think The Great Gatsby is a chick-flick. Rolling Eyes
Befade
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Oh, just go see it. After all, Jay-Z was a producer and it's energetic.

Marj........I did like Tobey M.as the narrator........just the writer who observes without passing judgment.

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Marc
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 11:38 pm Reply with quote
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I'm with befade. Just go see it. There's way too many so-called film buffs here that seem to require all kinds of guarantees before they go see a movie. Fuck, I go to see as many as I can. I love em. Where's your fucking sense of adventure?
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