WARNING spoilers.
Proceed with caution unless you've read the book/seen the movie.
I just got back from seeing the Great Gatsby movie.
Honestly, I feel like it was really great in some unique ways, and yet it was slightly dumbed down from the novel. The soundtrack, like the movie overall, was great and yet sometimes not fitting. I was really open to the whole Jay-Z thing, just because why the forget not, but then flux pavilion and it's like... why. Then they kept repeating the rhythm/main verse of that Lana Del Rey song and it gets annoying a bit. My only main gripes with the novel include ((the fact that Daisy/Tom's child was only mentioned and didn't appear until the end and for only a brief moment (which is weird because the child's appearance is supposed to hit Gatsby mentally), and there were too many points in the movie where it had fade ins/outs of Tobey Maguire/Nick Carraway typing out the story on a typewriter to his psychologist (but I guess you don't have much else to fill in the gaps as with the novel...). The movie also seemed too CGI at times. Also Myrtle's breast isn't exposed and flapping but I'm only complaining cause my teacher kept bringing up that detail ("flapping") at least 200 times when we read it.)).
I don't imagine many others have seen it right now at 2:30 in the morning unless you saw it at midnight but feel free to discuss, please try to keep plot details in transparent text.
