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#1815085 - 05/16/13 07:36 PM
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My daughter is going on a field trip with her English class to see Gatsby today. They are riding a school bus for the hour trip to the nearest theater playing the movie. I am sure she is thrilled. Three weeks left in her senior year and she has be on a bus for 2 hours and sit through this movie on a beautiful day. Definitely not her kind of film.
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#1815089 - 05/16/13 07:43 PM
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As far as Leo goes - I thought he was excellent in Aviator.
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#1815099 - 05/16/13 07:50 PM
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There is a much better version that the Redford film, but it has been tied up in litigation since the 50's I think...
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#1815221 - 05/17/13 12:51 PM
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The original Great Gatsby, which i had to watch in college for an English class, was horribly boring. Dunno if the new one is any better. I thought that movie was particularly well done, and well cast, too (except for Bruce Dern; Tom Buchanan should have been played by a much bigger, more athletic actor). It stayed very true to the novel. Based on what I have read about the Baz Luhrman version, I have absolutely no intention of seeing it. SF, did the version you're talking about have Robert Redford in it? He's the only guy that i can definitively remember was in it. Yes. It was released in, I believe, 1974. Starred Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker.
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#1815277 - 05/17/13 01:35 PM
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I always looked forward to watching the movies for the books we read in English class... and I was almost always disappointed.  I agree but it is hard not to be let down. Reading a book is only limited by your own imagination to visualize the words into reality. In a movie they are limited by the film makers conflicting imaginations, budgets and technology.
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#1815280 - 05/17/13 01:38 PM
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Very true! I can think of one and only one time I enjoyed a movie more than the book.
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#1815293 - 05/17/13 02:09 PM
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Tell us, Manimal.
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#1815295 - 05/17/13 02:15 PM
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The original Great Gatsby, which i had to watch in college for an English class, was horribly boring. Dunno if the new one is any better. I thought that movie was particularly well done, and well cast, too (except for Bruce Dern; Tom Buchanan should have been played by a much bigger, more athletic actor). It stayed very true to the novel. Based on what I have read about the Baz Luhrman version, I have absolutely no intention of seeing it. SF, did the version you're talking about have Robert Redford in it? He's the only guy that i can definitively remember was in it. Yes. It was released in, I believe, 1974. Starred Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker. Mind you, i was in college, so i might have a different view of it now, but the one thought i do remember having about the movie, and being annoyed about, was that it seemed like Redford (Gatsby) had 2 women interested in him: a hot brunette and a rather unattractive blonde (i guess that would be Farrow?); and he blew off the brunette and had eyes for the blonde. Yeah...i was pretty shallow then. 
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#1815296 - 05/17/13 02:17 PM
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I Am Number 4. I liked the movie, cheesy as some parts were. The concept was interesting. So I read the book... I just couldn't grasp the way the author wrote the POV. It felt awkward and uneven.
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#1815298 - 05/17/13 02:20 PM
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Steven King's "TommyKnockers" was a much better TV series than book. I really hated that book.
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#1815300 - 05/17/13 02:23 PM
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Star Trek: Into the Darkness opened yesterday with IMAX opening today. Will definitely be seeing this weekend.
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#1815314 - 05/17/13 02:35 PM
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The movie version of Dolores Claiborne was better than the book. As was The Hangover. The Hangover 2 was a better book than a movie, IMO.
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#1815327 - 05/17/13 02:45 PM
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I've yet to see a movie that was even close to as good as the book...way too many subtleties that a written word can convery that the spoken word can't...I always use the book/movie "Jaws" as an example...a portion of the book was told from the shark's point of view, and even that baby sharks developing in the womb point of view...no way a movie could convey that
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#1815333 - 05/17/13 02:52 PM
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that's the Fancy Lawnmower talking...
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#1815415 - 05/17/13 04:48 PM
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Team America: World Police was not a very good book compared to the movie.
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#1816771 - 05/23/13 02:19 PM
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I adore Benedict Cumberbatch - he plays Khan.
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#1816772 - 05/23/13 02:20 PM
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Saw Star Trek last Saturday at an IMAX on that ginormous screen and in 3d. Great movie, lots of action.
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#1817503 - 05/24/13 07:02 PM
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Add Divergent to my list - should be out later this year.
Maze Runner coming out next year.
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#1817507 - 05/24/13 07:08 PM
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Hope to catch Iron Man 3 over the weekend...
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#1817538 - 05/24/13 07:35 PM
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I am going to see Star Trek this weekend.
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#1817548 - 05/24/13 07:51 PM
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I also can't wait for the next Harry Potter film to come out...Order of the Phoenix was awesome!
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