REVIEW: THE GREAT GATSBY
Here's the irony I had walking into Baz Lurhmann's "The Great Gatsby:" most people who I've talked to refer to "Gatsby" as that book that they had to read in their high school English class. As someone who's currently enrolled in a high school English class...I've never read "The Great Gatsby," mostly because I'd assumed we'd have gotten to it by now, but...nope. We did however watch half of the 1974 Jack Clayton version starring Robert Redford, which was, to say the least, romantic but dry. I was hoping this version wouldn't share these undesirable qualities. Luhrmann, the real star of the film Wow, is it good to be right. Luhrmann's "Gatsby," which was moved from December 2012 to now for some reason, is a gorgeous film with enormous scope and, dare I say, brave decisions. All my peers had raved about the "Gatsby" adaptation, but then again they did the same for "Iron Man 3," and ...