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#151: Apr 26th 2013 at 12:16:20 PM

[up]It's called joking. Of course he knows how it ends.

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#152: Apr 26th 2013 at 2:24:06 PM

[up][up]Because the anachronistic music won't detract from it enough.

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#153: Apr 26th 2013 at 7:20:57 PM

[up][up][up]oh come now. we all know how well it worked in Tim Burton's Alice. That Johnny Depp. sure can dance a mean dance.

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#154: Apr 27th 2013 at 2:26:48 PM

Found a bunch of new clips!

Oh, and the Beyonce cover of Back to Black came out. It's horrible.

edited 27th Apr '13 2:31:27 PM by Mort08

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#155: Apr 27th 2013 at 3:44:47 PM

wild mass guessThe film will end with Gatsby living to set up The Great Gatsby 2: Rise of the Shadow Parties, an action-packed sequel where Nick and Gatsby are fugitives and have to fight terrorists who are trying to kill the President while attempting to clear their names. It will have Jonah Hill as Gatsby's brother Kyle Gatz, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick's uncle who knows kung fu, Tiger Woods as himself (he's a rival to Jordan), Helena Bonham-Carter as Gatsby's evil daughter from the future, Matt Damon as the terrorist leader/Cyborg Gatsby, Tommy Lee Jones as the President, and Marion Coutillard as Miranda Tate/Talia al'Ghul.wild mass guess

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#157: Apr 27th 2013 at 5:31:44 PM

After seeing those clips, now I'm REALLY conflicted. On one hand, everything looks gorgeous, and my fears about the music don't seem to have been true (but, then, this is only a few short clips). On the other, the acting...the acting doesn't seem as good as I'd hoped. It's mixed. I don't know.

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#158: Apr 27th 2013 at 7:56:29 PM

[up] Agreed. Judging from the clips, the only person who seems to be consistently putting effort into it is Elizabeth Debicki. Isla Fisher looks alright, too, but there's not enough footage of her to make any predictions. Everyone else? Eh...I thought Carey and Tobey were okay. Still not sold on Joel and Leo.

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#159: Apr 27th 2013 at 9:02:49 PM

Tobey seemed a lot more vulnerable (read: dopey) than I expected. He honestly seemed like he thought he was in a high school play.

Elizabeth seemed very good though.

edited 27th Apr '13 9:05:13 PM by 0dd1

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#160: Apr 30th 2013 at 6:20:43 PM

So, the movie hits theaters this Friday! Thoughts?

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#161: Apr 30th 2013 at 6:21:48 PM

We Australians are dissapointed we don't get it until next month.

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#162: Apr 30th 2013 at 6:37:52 PM

That's disappointing.

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#163: Apr 30th 2013 at 6:50:17 PM

And it's not this Friday, it's next Friday.

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#164: Apr 30th 2013 at 10:06:44 PM

*looks it up*

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#165: May 2nd 2013 at 3:41:38 PM

We can stream the entire soundtrack now.

Feel free to skip the Jay-z song. It's barely listenable.

Also, a question; is it true that the movie will be shown in 3D only?

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#167: May 2nd 2013 at 11:26:47 PM

[up][up]No. There's non-3-D listings in my area, at least.

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#168: May 3rd 2013 at 3:06:56 AM

But the thing is, in those cases, the ultimate result is narm (intentional or otherwise). When you're trying to make or tell a story that people are supposed to take seriously, campy elements will only distract from that and decrease the emotional impact of the story.

Get thee to a Netflix and drink a cup of Moulin Rouge. High camp, highly serious. Which it would be, since those things are a tautology. Hell, just watch the two songs inside/on top of the Elephant. Heightened emotions, couture, ridiculous and unlikely action taken seriously by the characters — and ultimately by the audience.

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#169: May 3rd 2013 at 8:05:47 AM

Yeah, Moulin Rouge didn't work for me. It's highly subjective how well it works.

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#170: May 3rd 2013 at 9:37:02 AM

'Love is the Drug' is also a pretty great tune on the soundtrack.

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#171: May 3rd 2013 at 2:23:25 PM

@Nicknacks: I think you're forgetting how highly polarizing Moulin Rouge is.

And that it's the same director.

And that Moulin Rouge isn't an adaptation of a highly respected preexisting work.

edited 3rd May '13 2:24:14 PM by 0dd1

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#172: May 3rd 2013 at 3:05:21 PM

Well, it is loosely based on an opera.

I'm just gonna say this; if the acting portions of Great Gatsby are anything like the acting portions of Moulin Rouge, then Great Gatsby is screwed. There may not be a limit to how much silly stuff the characters can take seriously when it comes to Camp, but there is a limit for the audience.

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#173: May 3rd 2013 at 6:51:11 PM

Le sigh. *headplonk*

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#174: May 3rd 2013 at 7:13:25 PM

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#175: May 6th 2013 at 2:53:20 PM

Reviews are starting to come in, and several of them are...uncomplimentary, so to speak.

I'm still gonna see it because the book was awesome and I've never completely seen a Baz Luhrmann film before.

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