The Great Gatsby 2012 (PM)

Shit you guys, I love Baz too, but that trailer worries the shit out of me.

Leonardo kind of looks handsome though. Perhaps The Great Gatsby will be the movie that will put him back on the map. By which I mean, my own personal hunk map, which he has been off since he got puffy around 2002.

Good grief.

I understand he has remained on other people's map this whole time but not mine, readers, not mine. And just quickly, I thought Inception sucked. Except for Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

I do like that Carey Mulligan quite a lot. I think she'll make a fine Daisy. Hey, What did I see her in recently? Oh, that's right. 

Fassbender, how did you get here?

Shame. She was in Shame. Which I thought was great but may not be everyone's cup of tea, so I will just link to the trailer rather than embed it. But Carey Mulligan was great in it. And she was great in Never Let Me Go. I think she is quite great. 

Of course I will go see The Great Gatsby, but now that I've seen that trailer I guess I will go hoping it will be good, not thinking it will be good. But go ahead and prove me wrong Baz! I would love to love this film, as I have loved all your others, including Australia. Please make that happen!

The Great Gatsby 2012 (AM)

 

Do you know what film I love? Baz Luhrmann's! All of them. Yep, even Australia. I know it got a bad wrap, but I loved it. I loved the Wizard of Oz thing it had going on. That Technicolour styling. And you know what else? It made me feel things. When Drover was running around thinking Nicole was dead after Darwin was bombed...I really felt it. So sue me.

I like Australia a lot. But in fact Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet are actually two of my favourite films.

And Moulin Rouge! Of course I effing love that film. The singing! The dancing! The drama! The Ewan! Spectacular, spectacular!

 
I think Baz makes fucking great films. I think they are beautiful, but not without substance. That is to say I think they have substance. I respond to them on all sorts of levels and that is exactly what I want from a film and rarely what I get. Sure, they are not super deep but who wants that in all the films? Not me. Some films, yes. All the films, no

It is fair to say that I am pretty damn excited about The Great Gatsby. And not just because I love Baz, but because I also effing love that book. What a goddamn beautiful marriage! Not to mention the beautiful reuniting of DiCaprio and Luhrmann. Yeah, I am excited.

So, a few weeks ago, I saw the trailer on the news. I have to say I felt a little concerned. Yeah it had the energy and beauty I expected from Baz but that party scene, presumably Gatsby's first party, it looked so much like the R+J party.

Gatsby's party

The Capulet's party

See?

Maybe Baz is just being super self-referential, but I couldn't help feeling a little worried that maybe it would be a rehash of old turf.

But then, well, I watched it again.

 

The hedonism, the tortured lovers, the pain, the joy, yeah, it kind of is a rehash. A rehash of all the stuff Baz does best! Like the genius he is! I can't fucking wait!

Summer Blockbuster Releases

It's getting to that time of year we call summer when the clouds disappear, the rain is gone and there is nothing but blue skies, shining sun and hot hot heat. Sadly for us here in Scotland this is not usually the case for us. We may get a couple of weeks of sun throughout the following months but traditionally our summers are not as hot as we would like them to be.

Luckily summer is not all about the weather it is also the time of music festivals, time off work and of course summer blockbusters. When you are expecting some good summer weather and you end up with the rain there is nothing better than getting away from it all and enjoying a massive Hollywood blockbuster. Here are three massive films we are hyped about this Summer.

1. The Dark Knight Rises - The final instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy takes place eight years after the last film, which saw Batman take the fall for Two Face's crimes. A new character Bane has  terrorised and taken over the city and the Dark Knight must resurface to save it.

2. The Amazing Spider-Man - This film is a re-imagining of the latest Spider-Man films we have seen over the last decade and goes back to the start of the Spider-Man story. Featuring Andrew Garfield replacing Toby Maguire as the hero on a quest to understand why his parents disappeared when he was young resulting in him colliding with Dr. Curt Connors (The Lizard) on his way.

3. Prometheus - This sci-fi thriller sees a team of explorers discover the clues of the origin of mankind on the earth by journeying to the darkest parts of the universe and engaging terrifying battle to save the human race along the way. Although conceived as a prequel to Ridley Scott's Alien series, the director states it has strands of "Alien's DNA" but will explore its own mythology and ideas.

We are extremely HYPED about all of these bad boys. What blockbusters are you looking forward to?