The Great Gatsby scoring by Jay Z

[L. Deezy]

It's been a famous book for over half a century.

lol.. I know that much mayne..

movies and book versions never give you the same feeling. I was saying if you want to see the cinematic version

 

[L. Deezy]

Except for the fact that this is a period peace. I would be going in waiting for Coltrane, Miles, Bill Evans Trio type shyt. It took place in the Jazz age. I gotta hear about selling kis and shyt now during one of the most celebrated words of American literature put to film.

lol.. i feel you.

I think outside of the 1 or 2 Jay songs.. the rest of the songs fit.

I didnt mind the Jay songs tho.

 

[L. Deezy]

I meant to write works*. You don't think The Great Gatsby is one of the most celebrated books in American Literature?

I didnt read the book.. hadnt even thought to read it.

but I love the story.

 

[up in here]

Just saw this and that shyt kinda irked me. I didn't really mind the fact that it was modern music but there were at least 4 different Jay-z tracks all in the first half of the film. At first I was like "no church in the wild" thats cool, but then another Jay song and another. shyt was a bit overboard and got too much to ignore. They even had "Izzo" playing from a car during one scene, at that point I thought to myself, can this dude be any more egocentric? Really kinda fukked up the vibe. Imagine watching Kill Bill and its got back to back RZA songs.

The second half of the film was much better, they still had modern music but eased of the pedal a little. Like I said, I didn't mind the concept but the execution was bad