Is it just me or does this look like a DOA, dog shit of a film?

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Looks ok to me. I think I read that this is like the 7th time they have done this movie. The book is great but
not sure why they can't seem to nail it on screen.

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The Great Gatsby. He was, errrr..... uhhhh.... Great.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

That Dangerfield from Back to School?

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Never has a film been more of a perfect vehicle for a comedian

The "Baz Luhrmann"-ing of the story interests me, but it's my favorite book of all time so I do not think it will meet my expectations.

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Rodney rarely ever played a role in a film. He was just Rodney. His best acting work was probably either Easy Money or Natural Born Killers

I loved back to school. It featured 80s typecast bad guy William Zabka, Paulie from Rocky, Robert Downey Jr., Kurt Vonnegut and zoning discussion.

Flunk me? Flunk you!

I never cry with women...I beg.

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Maybe one day Will Ferrell can make a film half as funny as Back to School

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Also Sam Kinison and Ned Beatty

Also a time when a man could mistakenly walk into a sorority, walk into the shower and see a college student naked and take care of it with a few dollar bills to a cop.

We rented that movie and Peggy Sue Got Married and the store went out of business before they were due, so we got to keep them.

A young rpb watched that shower scene more than a few times.

Hey honey, I didn't see a thing. You're perfect

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Old School was pretty good

loved old school...it also had zoning discussions

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Call me sometime when you have no class.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

Maybe Rodney should have made more funny movies instead of stopping in the 80s and we wouldn't need Will Ferrell.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The business of America is business and the business of an educational institution such as ours is to create young minds that understand what business that is.

Some of the most terminally boring people I know love Will Ferrell, not in the sense of liking things that Will Ferrell happens to be in but specifically identifying an affinity for Will Ferrell.

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I think he's hilarious but he makes bad low brow high money making movies

When he does his own stuff he's great

I'm the most interesting person you'll never meet.

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What's a bath without bubbles? Come here Bubbles.

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I'll give Baz the benefit of the doubt. Strictly Ballroom completely surprised me, Moulin Rouge was fun, and I thought I'd hate Romeo + Juliet but it was also pretty sweet.

the film version with redford was about as good as you're gonna get as far as a film adaptation.

i predict this movie will tank. first weekend may be a big one because theatres will be full of 11th grade high schoolers getting extra credit or taken by their english teachers. after that it'll be dead in the water, because "star trek" will come out. what a stupid time to release a film like this.

Blockbusters are made at the box office by young people. Who the fuck is going to go see this in May?

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Old School was solid. Anchorman, Step Bros. & The Other Guys were fucking brilliant.

I'm not really addressing the financial success of the movie. I pretty much expect the american public to run from a movie adapted from a classic book and run to anything with a I, II, or III at the end of the title. I just think this will be a bad movie artistically.

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Thornton Melon: Home, Sweet Home.
Lou: I liked the old house better.
Thornton Melon: So did I.
Lou: I liked the old wife better, too!
Thornton Melon: Lay off Vanessa. She gives great headache. Lou, I can't believe it. Married five years. Seems like yesterday! And you know what a lousy day yesterday was.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

the reviews seem to be bearing out my opinion

overly grandiose to the point of deluting a great story

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It's a great novel, but I'm not sure if it's a great story. Much of Gatsby's genius lies in Nick Carraway's narration, which would be difficult to translate for cinematic purposes, especially for a champion of the obvious like Baz Luhrmann.

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for what it's worth...WGN TV's Dean Richards loved it. He felt the "grandiosity" helped illustrate the energy associated with the period.

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