The car were cool

Rating: 1/10 (20 July 2013)

The cars were cool And by that I don't mean Rick Ocasek and The Cars, although I wouldn't have been surprised to hear their music in this film. No, I mean the cars used in the movie, the actual automobiles that were driven around. In fact, they were about the only thing in the whole movie worth looking at.
In all honesty, I only saw about 40 minutes of the movie before I got up and walked out. I figured it wasn't going to get better and it WAS getting worse.
In 1974 they made The Great Gatsby into a movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. It wasn't a huge smash but it did at least make it's money back. And after all, the movie business is a business isn't it. Isn't making money one of the chief objectives. So why on earth anyone would want to spend $190 million to produce this crap and then who-knows-how- much to market it is way beyond me.
Let's start with Tobey Maguire. Enough has already been written about the crap in the sanitarium so I'll leave that alone. Let's just talk about his over the top hammy, not-even-good-enough-for-a-community- theater-production type of acting. Did he really think he had to talk loud and over do it to reach the people int he back row?
If you're going to have dialog about how beautiful a woman is (Daisy/Carey Mulligan) it might help to actually have an actress who fits the description, don't you think? Is anyone supposed to be mesmerized by this too skinny, too pale, too plain-white-wonder-bread type?
I've never been impressed with Leonardo DiCaprio. To me he always seems like a little boy trying to play a man's role. It worked perfectly in The Quick and The Dead but other than that he's just one of those guys who never grows up. Now, if they ever wanted to make a movie about Gilligan's Island he'd be perfect.
It's always a shame when they have to F(*^$(*@&%#$*@ up a decent story with crappy music. It's a shame too because that era was filled with great music and great composers. I'm sure that if the great songwriters of that era had wanted their music to sound like hip-hop or rap they could have stuck their heads up their asses and given it a shot.
And what's with all the terrible CGI? For $190 million they could have bought a couple of real sets, don't you think?
Over all, if you love crappy acting, crappy directing, bad CGI but really cool cars then go see it.