Great Gatsby: Good movie to watch

Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2013)

Wow, I was ready to hate this movie and spoiler alert: It was good. Initially I caught it on a flight from D.C. and napped through parts but was impressed. And that is important as I was on an American Airline 737 with the little tiny screens a few rows up. So when I got home I watched it that night on my big screen and was WOW'd! OK, McGuire was a little off as Nick Carraway, and Daisy was not quite the girl I would have selected, Mia Farrow was so good in the last one. But no one asked me to produce, direct or cast the film and it worked as an integrated unit.
I usually do not give anyone a break (see my other reviews), and I am not giving the production a break here.
There were definite issues with the rendering into 2D, the background looked more unreal than the unreal look the production was attempting. The first 20 minutes was my favorite with the character animation and speed. The party scenes were my favorite. And the road racing scenes not so good.
Finally, I came to the end of the film thinking that maybe it was just a story written by a drunk. And guess what, it was.