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billyweeds |
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 7:32 pm |
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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 |
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 11:34 pm |
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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 |
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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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Syd |
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:37 am |
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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 |
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Seems it is a good Bollywood movie, but without songs and dances.
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:22 pm |
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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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Ghulam |
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:45 pm |
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I too was thinking of Devdas.
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marantzo |
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:47 pm |
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Is Devdas the name of a Bollywood movie? |
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Ghulam |
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 11:59 pm |
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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 |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:33 pm |
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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 |
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I'm beginning to think The Great Gatsby is a chick-flick.  |
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Befade |
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:47 pm |
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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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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 11:38 pm |
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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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