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Roy Boy
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Try again, old sport
22 March 2002 - 6 out of 8 users found this review helpful.
I just finished reading The Great Gatsby again, and I find the story to be excellent and timeless. This film did a good job of depicting the story and some of the sets were good, but the actors did a horrible job. When I watched it, it was just actors reading lines without any rapport at all--they did nothing to make the story or characters come alive. The conversations seemed forced, unnatural, and somewhat awkward. I'm not saying that the 70's version was perfect, but in that movie Robert Redford WAS Gatsby. Nobody in this movie even came close to truly bringing their character to life. I recommend the Redford version over this movie; it just wasn't good.
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