The Great Gastby is highly overrated

[shortylickens]

and does not need tons of remakes.


Seriously. Stop it.

 

[IronWing]

What's purple and drives a Duesenberg?























The Grape Gatsby!

 

[shortylickens]

:awe:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The book and everything F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote is overrated. Transcendentalism sucks and movies obfuscate the ideas even more.

 

[shortylickens]

The book and everything F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote is overrated. Transcendentalism sucks and movies obfuscate the ideas even more.

I just thought it was boring.
And the movies are worse.

They dont actually make a point, they tell a relatively uninteresting story from a terribly uninteresting point of view.
If they were trying to say something, they failed.

 

[Baptismbyfire]

I just thought it was boring.
And the movies are worse.

They dont actually make a point, they tell a relatively uninteresting story from a terribly uninteresting point of view.
If they were trying to say something, they failed.

Uh... it does say something. The problem is, the message, while it may have been powerful during the Gilded Age, is something many many many books, films, and songs have covered since then, and so it doesn't have the same impact. Mind you, it's not one of my "favorite" books, and not something I would heartily recommend to most people, but there is definitely something you can get out of it.

And just by seeing the preview for the new movie, it seems like they went overboard with fancy sound effects and whatnot, but that's not what the movie is about. The movie version starring Robert Redford will always be the classic, and the only one worth recommending.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

JLGatsby disagrees.

 

[Farang]

but do you know the meaning of the green light?

 

[lxskllr]

I liked the book. Never saw any movies.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I just thought it was boring.
And the movies are worse.

They dont actually make a point, they tell a relatively uninteresting story from a terribly uninteresting point of view.
If they were trying to say something, they failed.

It's all about symbolism except a movie by nature stresses visual elements and people miss a lot of the message. You're right though, it is boring.

 

[Svnla]

I did read the book when I was in school, did not think it was all that. Never watched the movie with Robert Redford. How many version of that movie out there?

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I didn't much like that book either.

 

[disappoint]

I'm just gonna leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rothstein

 

[BrokenVisage]

What's purple and drives a Duesenberg?























The Grape Gatsby!

hi-yooo

 

[sactoking]

Many, many of the "classics" are instead complete shite.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Many, many of the "classics" are instead complete shite.

This is true. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand and, Ernest Hemingway were just plain boring, pedantic and, social misfits who only impressed those more besotted by form than content.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Well I for one loved it.

 

[Svnla]

This is true. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand and, Ernest Hemingway were just plain boring, pedantic and, social misfits who only impressed those more besotted by form than content.

I do like The Old Man and the Sea book from E. Hemingway.

 

[IronWing]

This is true. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand and, Ernest Hemingway were just plain boring, pedantic and, social misfits who only impressed those more besotted by form than content.

Except that Hemingway could write.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I do like The Old Man and the Sea book from E. Hemingway.

My first reaction reading any of Hemingway's novels was to wish the main character would hurry up and die you pathetic self tortured egoist. I guess he did get a reaction from me and I did read them all before deciding he wasn't worth reading.

 

[BladeVenom]

I also think it was overrated. I never did understand why it was so popular.

That and Sound and the Fury, were the two classics I read that just didn't seem all that great.

 

[AMCRambler]

JLGatsby disagrees.

Whatever happened to that tard? I used to have wars with him on here. God he was annoying.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I also think it was overrated. I never did understand why it was so popular.

That and Sound and the Fury, were the two classics I read that just didn't seem all that great.

Sometime when you're feeling masochistic, try The Three Musketeers by Dumas. D'artagnan does 40 pages of naval gazing while drunk in a bar.

 

[videogames101]

Book is great, and I have hopes for this upcoming remake due to the cast.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Except that Hemingway could write.

Oh? You mean that all-time great American writers aren't just hacks like ATOT tells me??