Do Not Be Deceived By My Rating

Rating: 5/10 (20 March 2015)

This movie... okay, it wasn't terrible. It was a pretty decent movie to watch and got the main concepts of the book across well. But I just can't stop myself from feeling a little irritated when I watch it. There are things about it that I just think weren't done right and that kind of brought all my feelings about the movie down. I think my biggest, angriest problem with this was how much it didn't seem like the 1920s. The music was the biggest thing about this. In a movie representing a story of the past, I do not want to hear loud party music from the time we live in. It just pisses me off. I know a lot of people have blabbered on to me about 'modern interpretation' and blah blah but it wasn't actually set in the present day so why is it using present day music? It doesn't accentuate any point. In fact it hid the feel of that era and smashed any sort of hope I had for really enjoying this movie. Then there was the way some of them spoke. It just didn't sound right. Gatsby was often enough perfect (Leonardo DeCaprio always nails these roles) but often enough the rest of the cast didn't really perfect that talk. Maybe it was the writers. All I know was that the lines from the book were done in an alright way. Nick reading out what he had written didn't really do it for me either. It wasn't read in a tone I liked. Maybe it was just a little airy for me. I know that's kind of a stupid thing to nag about but I really wanted to love this movie. I'd heard such great things. There were other things, small things that I won't get into. But mostly it was just how un-1920s it was. It made me miss the book and want to bitch about it (which I guess is done now). I'm glad a lot of people like it but I just can't. I recommend watching it though as I'm sure a lot of people will still enjoy what I could not. The actors did decent jobs too and the uses of setting were sometimes perfect. It wasn't my favourite movie but it wasn't anywhere near my least favourite either.