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For those who didn't like it because of the CGI and the soundtrack:

posted 9 years ago by Etxpeme
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Well... with no CGI this movie would be boring. With no CGI they'd have to remake it entirely and they would have to put a lot more of dialogue and inside into the characters. I'd like to watch that version too.

However, I did like this movie. I think you have to be open minded about it. I hadn't read the book before watching it, and I think having read the book made it impossible for a lot of people to like it since they were expecting the movie to be like the book and they didn't want any changes. But I think, if you forget about the book and take the movie for itself without comparing it to the original source, it's a great film with fantastic acting and an interesting style (I agree though that the casting could have been better: maybe Sean Penn for Tom, someone prettier for Daisy and I don't know who for the mistress; DiCaprio and Maguire were ok I think, although I repeat I haven't read the book.

About the CGI and soundtrack: their purpose is to show the excessiveness of it, the 20s were a flamboyant, extravagant time and in Gatby's house more so. He wanted attention, he wanted Daisy to notice him. He wanted to show how important he was, he wasn't a nobody from nowhere anymore. Therefore the parties, the celebrated guests, the pink suits, the fireworks, the booze... The CGI wanted to exaggerate that even more, make it so WOW, every landscape had to be astonishing and the rap and hip-hop wanted to add to that (I don't like those genres at all but I liked the contrast -didn't Stanley Kubrik use 19th century's classical music for 2001 A Space Oddyssey -not comparing the movies, just an example-).

[–] CloverCandy 9 years ago

I completely agree with everything you said! Plus, if they remade it the same way as other versions it would be so boring! Who wants to see the same thing over and over, just with different people?

[–] CharlotteGoldenblatt 9 years ago

I like this movie and don't mind the cgi. However no one can convince me to like the music in this movie. Jay Z and his hip hop crap just doesn't fit, sorry.

[–] CharlotteGoldenblatt 9 years ago

Just want to add except for the music written by Craig Armstrong. Love his music especially in Love Actually.

[–] Callahan7 (1166) 5 months ago

Yes Charlotte.

Surprisingly good. Not great. But rap music? It didn't fit. A terrible idea.

[–] gabypanama 8 years ago

The 1974 version with R. Redfort had no CGI and it wasnt boring.

[–] QuickieCalzone (378) 6 years ago

i hadn´t read the book, but the movie is just trash.

[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 6 years ago

Not trash, but not particularly good neither.

[–] liscarkat (18541) a year ago

"...didn't Stanley Kubrik use 19th century's classical music for 2001 A Space Oddyssey..."

Bad example. Nineteenth-century classical music already existed prior to the year 2001, and, as we know now in retrospect, was still being heard in that year. Rap and hip-hop did not exist in the 1920s.