First impressions. I read the novel for this one and I didn't particularly care for it so I'm sure I will enjoy the movie more. The soundtrack is a plus for this movie, I've already heard some of the songs and I really enjoy them. I am just getting home from the movie and I have to say that I did enjoy the movie overall. I took more of the themes from the movie than I did from the novel but that is not to say that I enjoyed the movie more. I really fell for Carey Mulligan as Daisy and Tobey Maguire as Nick but the one I expected to blow my socks off, Leonardo DiCapprio, left me as underwhelmed as I could be. If anyone could pull off the tenacity and the hope required for such an iconic character as the great Gatsby surely it would be Leo. I was taken aback because something in his performance right away and throughout the whole movie rang false to me. I thought at first that of course he had to ring false because as you well know the great Gatsby wasn't great and wasn't even named Gatsby so the entire time he was putting up a front and that is why the performance was a little left from center. I believe in my heart of hearts that that is what Leo was going for but in order to pull the wool over so many peoples eyes he would have had to keep that he was a fraud much more of a secret than it seemed like he was playing it. That being said some of the most powerful scenes involved Leo and Joel Edgerton (Tom Buchanan) fighting over the love of Carey. Overall I would say the performances were a plus for the picture. I saw this picture in 2D and I think the director forgot about us 3D haters when he made this movie. I felt like almost everything was some sort of CGI that was meant to pop out at the people who payed the extra money for 3D. I happen to prefer movies in 2D so I felt left out along with all the other unfortunate 2D viewers. The music from the trailers was noticeably absent from the movie which was a huge let down because the music was my favorite part of the trailers for this movie. The music that was left in the movie felt like a cheap substitute for what we heard in the trailers. All in all I would give the great Gatsby a 6 out of ten. If it weren't for the strong performances that almost got swept up in the glitz and glamour of the party scenes this movie would have fared much worse in my ratings. In my estimation this is a good movie that a wide variety of people from many walks of life can enjoy. Here is the link to the trailers which I enjoy still for nothing other than the music and a link to more intelligent and reasoned reviews.
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