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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Tromect & Survive?

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    tromance of the three kingdoms

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    Tromancing the Stone

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    Wait wait wait

    Wait a goddamn minute, guys

    How is there no Decline and Fall of the Troman Empire?

    That's such a slam-fucking-dunk. Gladiators, vomitoriums that are actually for vomiting and not just mass exits, rampant nudity. Holy shit, it would be incredible.

    tromigula

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Tromageddon

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    The Lovely Bastard wrote: »
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    Wait wait wait

    Wait a goddamn minute, guys

    How is there no Decline and Fall of the Troman Empire?

    That's such a slam-fucking-dunk. Gladiators, vomitoriums that are actually for vomiting and not just mass exits, rampant nudity. Holy shit, it would be incredible.

    tromigula

    Cameo by Lemmy as Nero

    Shredding on bass as Tromaville burns

    Dammit TLB we've gotta get this written like yesterday

    Poorochondriac on
  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    fucking yes we do

    you get the case of whiskey, and i'll steal a typewriter and pick up the blow. this shit gettin' done, pooro.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Good lord some of these early reviews are absolutely brutal

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Good

  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    You know who should have directed it

    Wes Anderson

    Seriously; the book is all about the words, and I know of no other filmmaker whose every frame could be sold as a picture than Wes Anderson.

    Bill Murray as Meyer Wolfsheim?

    Yes please.

    Jason Schwartzman as Nick Carroway? I'd even go so far as to say Owen Wilson as Gatsby; he's got that fake air of benign authority about him.

    EDIT: On second thought, flip Schwartzman for Wilson. Wilson as Carroway, Schwartzman as Gastby.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Okay well however the movie turns out to be, the soundtrack is pretty bangin'

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Luhrmann should adapt The 120 Days of Sodom.

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Luhrmann should adapt The 120 Days of Sodom.

    I would watch this in a fucking second

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    MalReynolds wrote: »
    You know who should have directed it

    Wes Anderson

    Seriously; the book is all about the words, and I know of no other filmmaker whose every frame could be sold as a picture than Wes Anderson.

    Bill Murray as Meyer Wolfsheim?

    Yes please.

    Jason Schwartzman as Nick Carroway? I'd even go so far as to say Owen Wilson as Gatsby; he's got that fake air of benign authority about him.

    EDIT: On second thought, flip Schwartzman for Wilson. Wilson as Carroway, Schwartzman as Gastby.

    NOW I AM SAD

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Theater near me is doing a 10 pm show of this
    I'm debating if I want to, I am so tired

    edit: it won't let out until 1 am and I have to drive 9 hours tomorrow so it'll have to wait

    Grey Ghost on
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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    I liked the Redford Gatsby. It was filmed in one of the giant gilded age mansions in Newport, RI.

  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2013
    YaYa wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Luhrmann should adapt The 120 Days of Sodom.

    I would watch this in a fucking second

    75 prostitutes, all bent over, farting out 'Come As You Are' by Nirvana as a mash-up with 'I Touch Myself' by the Divinyls as the camera whirls on its vertical axis

    This is a fucking fantastic post.

    Larlar on
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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    h5 Geth

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I watched this.

    I did not hate it but neither was I impressed.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Baz Luhrmann's A Tale of Two Cities

    No but really

    Baz Luhrmann's Albert Camus' The Plague

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Reports are that this film made $51.1 million in its opening weekend.

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    hey @PaperLuigi44

    sure is some bullshit that we don't get this for another two weeks!

    you'd think Baz would have our backs

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Pfffftahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa

    Gatsby on
  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    I enjoyed the book but I'm not interested in the film, just thought I'd bring up some news.

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    I am ruined now since someone brought up the idea of Wes Anderson doing The Great Gatsby.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Lost Salient wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Baz Luhrmann's A Tale of Two Cities

    No but really

    Baz Luhrmann's Albert Camus' The Plague

    Baz Luhrmann's The Stranger

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Baz Luhrmann's No Exit

  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    Baz Luhrmann's Das Schloß.

    Fuck off and die.
  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Baz Luhrmann's Brave New World

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Baz Luhrmann's Lost Girls

  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    The Lovely Bastard wrote: »
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    The Lovely Bastard wrote: »
    meanwhile, i want all classic literature to be tromanticized a la tromeo and juliet

    the great tromatsby

    troma dick

    troma's war and peace

    trolita

    Anna Tromanana

    Brothers Tromamazov

    Trom and Tromability

    the adventures of tromaberry finn

    heart of troma

    tromaville's travels

    the count of troma cristo

    I probably would have gone with Nuke'lberry Finn.

    And Tox Sawyer.

  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    Gatsby wrote: »
    I am ruined now since someone brought up the idea of Wes Anderson doing The Great Gatsby.

    *swoops in*

    HEY

    *swoops out into turbine of airplane*

    "A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
    "Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
    My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    TrippyJing wrote: »
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    Wow.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    i didnt allow you to post my picture trippy

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    From the Variety review:

    "...Luhrmann has complete sentences from the novel appear typed out on the screen — a gimmick explained by a framing device that situates Carraway in a sanitarium, recounting the tale of Gatsby to a captivated shrink (Jack Thompson) who encourages him to write the story down."

    Hahahahahahaha, fuuuuuuuuuuck that

    oh regardless of this movie sucking, I just found out that the review paints it as if he is in an insane asylum, when he's simply visiting a psychiatrist. He has trouble voicing his experiences, and his psychiatrist suggests writing it down.

    so that framing device is whatever, but he's not in a mental institution.

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    The framing device diffidently hurts the movie though. I spent way to much time being told what happened next instead of getting to see it.

    And it made the Narrator to much of a cipher.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    It's been a looooooong time since I read the book but isn't Nick's role basically to be an entirely passive observer and not impact the plot in any meaningful way?

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    From the Variety review:

    "...Luhrmann has complete sentences from the novel appear typed out on the screen — a gimmick explained by a framing device that situates Carraway in a sanitarium, recounting the tale of Gatsby to a captivated shrink (Jack Thompson) who encourages him to write the story down."

    Hahahahahahaha, fuuuuuuuuuuck that

    oh regardless of this movie sucking, I just found out that the review paints it as if he is in an insane asylum, when he's simply visiting a psychiatrist. He has trouble voicing his experiences, and his psychiatrist suggests writing it down.

    so that framing device is whatever, but he's not in a mental institution.

    Yeah, it's kind of whatever. It's an entirely transparent, narratively inert device to keep the first-person voice and to let the movie use Fitzgerald's prose as monologue, but it's... no worse than that sounds? On its own it gives away how unambitious an adaptation it is, but it's not something that's actively dragging the film down, I guess.

    The words showing up on the screen are tacky as all get-out, but thankfully, these instances are rare

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    nightmarenny wrote: »
    The framing device diffidently hurts the movie though. I spent way to much time being told what happened next instead of getting to see it.

    And it made the Narrator to much of a cipher.

    if they'd made Nick a well-defined character then they really fucked up

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