Better than I expected

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2013)

1. I don't like the director or his previous work. 2. I have never liked Leonardo DiCaprio. That being said I went in with very low expectations, and was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the book when I first read it, and to me this movie captured it perfectly. Everyone was perfectly cast, and it followed the book almost completely, something some movie adaptations of books refuse to do. I thought the rap soundtrack would throw me off, but the decadence of the modern culture matches up well with the decadence of the roaring twenties.In fact, a lot of parallel's could be drawn between the 1920's and the more decadent elements of the modern world, Gatsby's house is something you would see shamelessly displayed on cribs, though Mr. Gatsby has far more class and humanity than any modern imitators. It is also a wonderful condemnation of the party lifestyle that is omnipresent in our modern world. This is one of the best adaptations of any book to film that I have ever seen.