The great gatsby (movie from 2013)

[smackababy]

I enjoyed the movie, but mostly only for it's costumes and imagery. The story itself isn't wasn't great, and having read the book in school like a lot of you, I already knew exactly what to expect.

If I could sum up the movie: it is about a wise and beautiful woman that leads on a poor man, who works hard for all his money just to be with her, only to be killed because of her.

I also thought the casting of the lead girl was incredibly poor. She was supposed to be a wondrous beauty, and that girl wasn't.

 

[evident]

i enjoyed the music in the movie, and the one party scene was pretty cool. otherwise it was a horrible movie. at least i watched it on a plane.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I HATED that book, probably the worst book I read in high school. I hated the characters, the story, everything. I have no interest in the film since the book was so terrible.

 

[Anubis]

I HATED that book, probably the worst book I read in high school. I hated the characters, the story, everything. I have no interest in the film since the book was so terrible.

Someone never read Beloved

 

[Sonikku]

Read it in school.

Book sucks. Movie sucks.

It all sucks.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Someone never read Beloved

That is true. Most of what we read in high school was good (Frederick Douglas, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Hamlet, Grapes of wrath, some Poe) .. (I dont remember all of them since high school was 1994-1998 and Ive read hundreds since that time.)