A few, brief thoughts on seeing "The Great Gatsby"

- Though I am usually not a fan of DiCaprio, I found myself charmed by the subtlety of his acting in this movie.  Probably because it was so vastly opposite Luhrmann's directing style of "Beat the Audience About the Head and Neck With Camera Tricks."  In Luhrmann's hands, Jerry Lewis would look like a nuanced actor.

- Nick Caraway in a Sanitarium is not acceptable.  Fitzgerald should be allowed to come back from the dead to nut-punch Luhrmann.  NOT.  ACCEPTABLE.

- Women who identify with Daisy Buchanan should be gently told that they're probably more like Myrtle Wilson.

- What happened to that dog?  

- In order for the term "Old Sport" to sound natural, one should not pause immediately before saying it.

- "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Oh God, it's true, isn't it?  We can't escape the past!  Our goals keep moving ever further away!  The green light is a sham! Is 2 in the afternoon too early to have a martini and go back to bed?

- Daisy Buchanan is a real piece of shit.