The Great Gatsby
1st Trailer
Watch It Here
Person of Interest: Boring, glad-handing narrator Tobey Maguire, strangely stiff Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, a hardly present Joel Edgerton, and fun old Amitabh Bachchan.
Scene Pop: I can't say, since everything is just so damn overbearing.
Briggs Breakdown: A lot of drinking, a lot of dancing, a lot of fireworks, a lot of debauchery and crazy driving in old timey New York.
Effective?: No. Its way too flashy, bombastic visual style and cuts hinder the story significantly and decreases the audio of the lines to a murmur. It also pretty much gets an instant failing grade for using modern songs for a period piece (seriously, The Throne's "No Church in the Wild"?), though Jack White's "Love is Blindness" does a bit fit. Unless this film will be another one of Baz Luhrmann's remixes, these songs are just audience-suckers and bait-and-switches.
Check it Out?: Easy school field trips and dates only. The Great Gatsby ranks up there next to A Separate Peace of books I hate. Though I can take in it in video-game form or in Kate Beaton's comic strips, I just detest the plot and all of the characters. This trailer doesn't sell anything to me beyond Luhrmann's overdose of sights, sounds, and fury.
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