Just saw The Great Gatsby movie and have mixed feelings.  I liked elements of it but I thought the symbolism/imagery was greatly overblown.  (How many shots of the green light and the billboard do we need??)  A lot of the fancy visual effects stuck out to me way to much as effects - and didn’t seem to always make a lot of sense.  A lot of the modern music for the parties, etc. bothered me too.  I guess I was expecting a more classic approach to a classic novel about a classic time period…

The acting was good though, and a lot of the visuals/costumes/sets/scenery, etc. were really nice to look at.  

I was a bit paranoid driving home afterward… hehh

Kind of makes me want to read the book again—it’s been a while.  That last line quoted in the movie is so striking.  Fantastic writing:  

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.