Already surpassing Sex in the city 2’s $3 million, The Great Gatsby’s Thursday and Friday mid-night tallied up a total of $3.25 million!
According to All Mediany, the star powered adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, is supposed to garner up a whopping $35 million for the movie's first opening weekend.
The Wall Street Journal shared the many different reviews of the flashy, and extravagant film adaptation. Most brought up missing the moral of the story, while others questioned the substance of the story being substituted by too much flash:
Rotten Tomatoes:“There’s always something to watch. But the actors’ efforts to get something going the old-fashioned way – by interacting with each other, in the service of the characters – get shoved to the sidelines, in favor of one more blast of glitter.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh: “The result is less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times
Rotten Tomatoes:“‘The Great Gatsby’ is ultimately an epic tragedy, a parable about America, the American dream ethos and its consequences, but the movie’s overblown style chokes the life out of any substance the story may have.” — Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
Fresh: “The fourth adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel scores some hits and wild misses, but DiCaprio nails the bull’s-eye.” — Rafer Guzman, Newsday
With mixed reviews, the numbers show that the audience has the ultimate decision in the outcome of the movie. Pulling more records than ever thought of, they are not done, expecting to compete with Marvel’s, Iron Man 3.
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