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New/Rented Movies: Have Mercy on Michael Bay's Soul, He Knows Not What He Does

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We didn't read The Great Gatsby in high school, instead we watched the movie. It just didn't capture my attention very well. All I remember was a couple parties, a billboard with eyes, some lady got slapped and I think someone got shot.
 
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I'd have the movie directed by Q. Tarantino. Might make it more watchable.
 
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SJHovey said:
I'd have the movie directed by Q. Tarantino. Might make it more watchable.
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This reminds me of the alternate ending to "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" on "The Simpsons." :)
 
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In jr and sr h.s. I was assigned many of the obligatory reads (Great Expectations, the Bard, Canterbury Tales, Zen and..., Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, EAP, etc.) but never GG. I may need to give it a try.

I guess it's off topic, but as a young kid I fondly remember reading Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Narnia series, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Wrinkle in Time series, Willy Wonka, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet (yeah there's some similarities there). It's hard to match the pure wonder and joy of reading before becoming cynical.
 
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As long as Luhrman doesn't try to set it in the modern day, I'll give it a try.
 
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My thought was, isn't The Great Gatsby about 100 pages? How is there even enough material for a movie? :confused:
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Many movie scripts are that short, or shorter. Remember that much of the visuals written down are summarized by a quick camera shot and long paragraphs of speech are whittled down to a mere sentence or three at most
 
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Kepler said:
This is true. When I read "Lord Jim" in high school my reaction was it was a work of genius because nobody could have accidentally written a book so uniformally, perfectly boring on every page.

Another thing about great literature is if you read it again many years later it has amazingly gotten much better. Wonder how that could be?

I suppose it's unavoidable that we force young people to read works that are way over their head: "a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" But when I hear somebody say "I read Conrad where I was 18 and it was boring" what I hear him saying was "I read Conrad where I was 18 and I was boring." :)
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Depends. After reading Romeo And Juliet and Hamlet in HS, I read Macbeth and a bunch of other Shakespeare plays on my own, because the stories kicked arse. Even saw "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" on my own when it came out (which is a great movie, btw). That stuff should be above the head (due to the difference in language) for the average student.

However, some others might even find THAT below their level of undertanding literature.
 
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aparch said:
Not a fan of his version of Romeo and Juliet?
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Even as a purist, I thought that had some good points to it. IIRC the scene where R first sees J she is behind a giant fish tank, foreshadowing her great line:

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
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There are a lot of little touches like that.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Depends. After reading Romeo And Juliet and Hamlet in HS, I read Macbeth and a bunch of other Shakespeare plays on my own, because the stories kicked arse. Even saw "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" on my own when it came out (which is a great movie, btw). That stuff should be above the head (due to the difference in language) for the average student.

However, some others might even find THAT below their level of undertanding literature.
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Of course.
 
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I watched Leap of Faith last night for the first time in years. Still one of my favorite Steve Martin movies :)
 
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Going to see MIB<sup>3</sup> this weekend with the gf. Should be a good mindless popcorn flick.
 
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aparch said:
Not a fan of his version of Romeo and Juliet?
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In a word. No. (Frankly I couldn't get past the thought that very few of the actors seemed like they understood their lines. Paul Sorvino was good (but when isn't he?) and I actually liked John Leguizamo in it.)
 
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duper said:
In a word. No. (Frankly I couldn't get past the thought that very few of the actors seemed like they understood their lines. Paul Sorvino was good (but when isn't he?) and I actually liked John Leguizamo in it.)
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I haven't seen much of John L, but the only role I liked him in was Benny Blanco from the Bronx in "Carlito's Way." I thought he was excellent. And Paul Sorvino is awesome. Really liked him in "The Cooler."
 
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Brenthoven said:
I haven't seen much of John L, but the only role I liked him in was Benny Blanco from the Bronx in "Carlito's Way." I thought he was excellent. And Paul Sorvino is awesome. Really liked him in "The Cooler."
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Heh, this movie is on right now. And the naiveness of Sean Penn's character is so revealed when he utters the quote about street justice/criminal "honor"/rules of the street.
 
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Saw Battleship. It was absolutely everything I wanted it to be.
 
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