Baz Luhrmann repeats what he did with Rome + Juliet and creates a horrible moster full of FX and exaggeration. Still, the cast performs well.
Read Full ReviewAn over the top portrayal of the classic novel, while at times excessive and tasteless, it truly hits home with the novels original critique on the excess of the time. The cast was **excellent**, the movie stayed true to the novel in all the most important ways. I personally feel the modern soundtrack wasn't appropriate in several cases, but a couple flawless executions.
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To be fair to Baz Luhrmann, this is actually quite a difficult story to adapt for the big screen. On the face of it, there are many contradictions right from the start (not least that our relatively normal narrator - trader "Nick" (Tobey Maguire) lives next door to the eponymous and enigmatic millionaire (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Disney-esque castle). The story is told by way of a retrospective during which the now depressed "Nick" regales his psychiatrist with his tales of life in the fast la...
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101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi w...
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With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo an...
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in or...
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the...
by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
(0:00) Opening
by Craig Armstrong
Nick goes to Tom and Daisy's home
by The Bryan
Opening Titles
by Kanye West
(0:03) Nick's first appearance in New York
by Craig Armstrong
Daisy talks to Nick about her daughter after dinner
by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders
Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle
by Louis Armstrong
(0:17) Nick sits in the apartment uncomfortably while Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle
by Jay-Z,Kanye West
(0:20) The party in Tom and Myrtle's apartment with the McKees, Catherine and Nick
by Kanye West,Jay-Z
by will.i.am
(0:24) First song at Gatsby's party
