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Every newspaper and magazine from Juno Alaska to John O'Groats in the UK is featuring this film. Dakka cannot be left behind, Dakka cannot be seen to be a cultural wasteland!

Reading the GG is every high school kid's worst nightmare, but here on Dakka we need to ask the hard questions:

Will you be watching it at the cinema?

Is it reflective of the American dream turned sour?

What the feth is it really about?

Gak movie from a gakky overrated book.

The GG is about over-privileged and spoiled young adults born with silver spoons and creating drama.

Don't even know what the hell that is in all honesty, should I have heard of the Great Gatsby?

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Gak movie from a gakky overrated book.

I bet you secretly choose absolutely as your poll option. Your secret's safe with me


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 Ardaric_Vaanes wrote:
Don't even know what the hell that is in all honesty, should I have heard of the Great Gatsby?

Yes! Did you not read the small print when you signed up for Dakka? Failure to know of, and or understand the GG warrants expulsion from this site!


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 kronk wrote:
The GG is about over-privileged and spoiled young adults born with silver spoons and creating drama.

You're mixing up the GG with the story of the Kennedy family

Should be a maybe option in the polls, because I may just see it depending on what it is exactly.

I found the novel was overly blunt with its metaphors and pretty dull, but then again, I was taught it in an English class where every book/play is like that (lots of Shakespeare...). The chances of it being better than the current film are probably high at least...

 kronk wrote:
The GG is about over-privileged and spoiled young adults born with silver spoons and creating drama.

You probably think the green light is just a green light, too.

What the hell is a Gatsby?

Ooh, there will be a car chase and some gun shooting though. Hmn, that may edge up its rotten tomatoes score a little, but you can't polish a turd. =P

While my highschool english teacher was a cool person, she was absolute gak at teaching english.

As such I've only ever heard about the book but have never read it.

 Ahtman wrote:

 kronk wrote:
The GG is about over-privileged and spoiled young adults born with silver spoons and creating drama.

You probably think the green light is just a green light, too.

Red light, stop.

Green light, go.

Yellow light, go very fast.

 Ardaric_Vaanes wrote:
Should be a maybe option in the polls, because I may just see it depending on what it is exactly.

Do you like action films? The GG is about a US special forces unit deployed in Central America who find themselves mysteriously being killed off by a hunter from another world.





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 Wyrmalla wrote:
I found the novel was overly blunt with its metaphors and pretty dull, but then again, I was taught it in an English class where every book/play is like that (lots of Shakespeare...). The chances of it being better than the current film are probably high at least...

Sounds familiar.


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 blood reaper wrote:
What the hell is a Gatsby?

A deadly Australian marsupial. It was discovered by Rolf Gatsby in 1789. Two of his men were killed by one.

 kronk wrote:
The GG is about over-privileged and spoiled young adults born with silver spoons and creating drama.

Sounds like the life story of the Kardasins, and every other person who is famous for being famous

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
While my highschool english teacher was a cool person, she was absolute gak at teaching english.

As such I've only ever heard about the book but have never read it.

Now's your chance to right a historical wrong, to infuse your life with culture. The GG is an American institution. Even the founding fathers predicted it and included it in the amendments: "the right of the people to keep and bear Great Gatsby books shall not be infringed."

I found the Great Gatsby to be a terribly dull novel whose primary point could have been surmised in a twenty page short story. That twenty page short story conveniently made up the last twenty pages of the book.

No great interest from me. Needs more Amy Adams... or space ships.

Of ourse I will watch it. The title says that it is Great!

What is this and why should I care?

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Gak movie from a gakky overrated book.

I bet you secretly choose absolutely as your poll option. Your secret's safe with me

*disclaimer, I will not in fact kill you, even if your taste in literature is questionable.

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 kronk wrote:
The GG is about over-privileged and spoiled young adults born with silver spoons and creating drama.

You're mixing up the GG with the story of the Kennedy family

There's really a difference?


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Now that I'm thinking about it, the Kennedy family and GG really ARE similar. An obsession with reclaiming past glories, extreme wealth, lots of sex, adultery and some murder against and by family members...

 Soladrin wrote:
What is this and why should I care?

It's a bland book that most American's were forced to read in High School that's being made into a movie with that guy from the Electric Company when he was very young.

 kronk wrote:

Red light, stop.

Green light, go.

Yellow light, go very fast.

Exalted for Starman reference.

I admit that I am surprised at the sheer number of people who really don't understand the book. You could only tell the story in twenty pages if you just relate basic plot elements, but if you do that you might as well make it one page, and then also pretend that things like phrasing, characterization, verisimilitude, metaphor, and other silly things like that aren't important to writing. I think some of the hate comes from being forced to read it.

 kronk wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
What is this and why should I care?

It's a bland book that most American's were forced to read in High School that's being made into a movie with that guy from the Electric Company when he was very young.

That only anwsered one question.

I imagine the conclusion we reached last time we did this won't have changed; dakka is largely comprised of uncultured heathens who are unable to appreciate one of the greatest pieces of American literature ever written.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Every newspaper and magazine from Juno Alaska to John O'Groats in the UK is featuring this film. Dakka cannot be left behind, Dakka cannot be seen to be a cultural wasteland!

Reading the GG is every high school kid's worst nightmare, but here on Dakka we need to ask the hard questions:

Will you be watching it at the cinema?

Is it reflective of the American dream turned sour?

What the feth is it really about?

I would rather stab myself in the family jewels with a rusty spoon than watch that film.

Twice.


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 Ahtman wrote:

 kronk wrote:

Red light, stop.

Green light, go.

Yellow light, go very fast.

Exalted for Starman reference.

I admit that I am surprised at the sheer number of people who really don't understand the book. You could only tell the story in twenty pages if you just relate basic plot elements, but if you do that you might as well make it one page, and then also pretend that things like phrasing, characterization, verisimilitude, metaphor, and other silly things like that aren't important to writing. I think some of the hate comes from being forced to read it.

At the same time I was forced to read the Great Gatsby, I was reading such joys as The Golden Torc, the musings of John Locke, Othello, Howard's Conan series, Noble House, the entire Time Life series of WWII, and Lucifer's Hammer. Imagine my wailing and gnashing of tears to have then read GG, and discuss it ad nauseum for weeks. GG was dogshit compared to, well everything. Of course this is my humble opinion, but if you disagree with it you obviously are in league with Satan.

catcher in the rye,

now THERE is a good book,

great gatsby was like to kill a mocking bird... read because I was forced to

TKMB was a decent book, but it was an absolute epic film. Peck was perfect and its the first film with Robert Duvall.

 Frazzled wrote:
and Lucifer's Hammer.

One of my favorites!

Its quite good isn't it. A comet hitting the earth from a more hard science perspective. Have you tried The Mote inGod's Eye and FootFall?

I don't have any special hate for the book, other than how overrated it is. But I really dislike Baz Luhrman as a director.