Plot Summary
A playboy party animal called Gatsby tries to seduce a chick called Daisy and befriends her cousin Spiderman as a way in. Sneaky, I like it.
It has been a crazy week. Firstly it's not been a fantastic month for films for me. I would have much rather have seen Mud with Matthew McConaghey who I would watch in anything right now as he has such a rich vain of form with films like Killer Joe and Magic Mike.
The Fast and Furious films are wildly over-rated and I have never been a fan of Star Trek. Though I did put a wonderfully witty tweet up about trying to get my similarly follically challenged brother to go see Into Darkness with me #twobaldlygo.
Fuck you all that's hilarious.
But Mud called pulled, Fast and Furious 6 no thank you and my brother would rather watch everything on knock off DVD rather than accompany me free to the cinema where he wouldn't have to pay a penny.
So my mate Paul and I sat down and trawled through The Great Gatsby. He got bored pretty quick and started to talk to himself through the movie. Only his voice is the bellowing intrusive kind.
So when Carey Mulligan and Di Caprio run off to the forest and share an intimate embrace, Mulligan poignantly remarks on the passage of time the two have lost together and says passionately'
"I wish I did everything with you Gatsby."
To which my friend Paul says without missing a beat.
"Even anal?"
I liked this movie, to be honest tales of heartbreak and unrequited/lost love often sails right up my dirt-track so to see this kind of narrative played out with the verve and gusto that Lurman brings was captivating. That said there are dips in both action and dialogue, the style and vision can't quite carry the slow deliberate pace this movie offers and I would be lying if I didn't say I was a bit bored in places. But my friends witty commentary kept me going throughout and I'd recommend you all bring one to help do the same.
Also when Gatsby gets introduced and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue spills over the raised champagne flutes and fireworks, that for me, as wonderfully cheesy as it was, was worth the admission price alone.
Tomato Meter - 50% (critics)
Tomato Meter - 84% (audience)
Peter Meter - 75%
So last night I ate alone, and watched The Dark Knight Rises. But I also chanced The Other Man on the iPlayer.
Plot Summary
Liam Neeson discovers his dead wife was banging Antonio Banderas and decides to plot his murder. I won't tell you if he does or not but before he does or doesn't, they play an awful amount of chess together.
I was actually nursing a pretty rare red wine hangover in the process of watching this film. I was attempting to cure the headache with white wine. A lovely bottle of Hardys Gewurtztraminer I found in my local offy. Drinking white wine has the same cleansing ability on a red wine hangover as it does a red wine stain on the carpet. Unfortunately I mixed that with a Naga Curry, a hit of baileys and a pint of Banghala. So I dozed off. But as I have said many times, the sign of a good film is one that I am willing to revisit in the place where I left it.
The film did not however repay my faith in its promising premise. And all the while I was thinking, Why isn't Richard Gere in this movie? Isn't this the exact same plot as that Clooney film The Descendants? When will Neeson stop dying his hair? He is over 60 years old. Surely when he did The Grey that would have been the perfect time to come out the just for mens closet.
A lot of the scenes go nowhere. The film is crisp, and cleanly shot, but there is little to no jeopardy.
Oh and it's terribly written.
Tomato Meter - 15% (critics)
Tomato Meter - 21% (audience)
Peter meter - 20%
Verdict
I kept thinking back to the last time I saw Carey Mulligan and that must have been in Shame. Shame is about as perfect a film as you can see, genuine tension, graphic, and the music is incredibly emotive. Never more so then when Mulligan sings New York New York in a restaurant. Almost derails the film. But then Fassbender goes and puts his face between some girls ass cheeks and that derails the film instead.
So WATCH Carey Mulligan sing New York New York and NOT The Great Gatsby OR The Other Man.
@thepeterbrooker
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