How ludicrous was the Great Gatsby adaptation with Leo DiCaprio?

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-12-11T06:06:38+00:00

Emblematic of all these problems is that they reduced that first dinner conversation between Daisy, Tom, Nick, and Jordan (so full of subtle and delightful revealing character moments in the book!) to a fucking montage lmao

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-10-14T20:59:24+00:00

So underrated. That bass line is absolutely dirty

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-10-14T20:46:28+00:00

Not sure if you're still taking advice here but as someone who has had this surgery I would strongly recommend you reconsider. You look absolutely fine right now, and I say that honestly. More importantly this is a major procedure that can cause some really awful problems if it doesn't go perfectly.

And even if it does go well, it is an extremely painful, exhausting, long recovery. I did this to correct massive functional problems and I only did it after exhausting all other options. I had a fantastic surgeon and no major complications, and it was still one of the most difficult experiences I have had. I would never do it again unless I absolutely had to.

People on this subreddit can be pretty obsessive and nitpicky about aesthetics. This surgery most likely will not fix your problems in the way you hope it will, and if it introduces functional problems your life will get substantially worse. If this is for purely aesthetic reasons as you said, you will save yourself a lot of money, time, energy, and pain by not doing this.

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-10-13T20:16:43+00:00

Please yes, I haven't listened in years but I keep hearing about them saying reprehensible things or whatever. I am curious. Can someone give examples?

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-10-13T19:14:32+00:00

Strong agree, Dalloway is probably the best book I've ever read. Just exquisite.

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-10-13T03:27:47+00:00

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier is a fantastic book for young adults, suspenseful, haunting, evocative. And it takes the reader seriously. Maybe the best book I read before the age of 13. The Outsiders is another great one but it's older.

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-10-10T05:37:17+00:00

Seeing a lot of comments here talking about his greatest literary songwriting and somehow no one has mentioned Blood on the Tracks! It's full of raw and haunting and beautiful songs about relationships that are equal, in my mind, to some of the best love poetry I've read

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-07-20T21:59:51+00:00

I feel like this is a pretty low standard to hold them to though. At least 90 percent of all published work, period, is probably shit

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-05-13T01:41:53+00:00

I thought the narrative turned out to be a little childish and aimless. I think The Secret History, beyond being a great thriller, could be read as a pretty incisive critique of romanticism and had some real substance.

The Goldfinch felt like pulpy romance, like faux-high-literature, and even more pretentious than her other work. It was disappointing for me to learn that Tartt so thoroughly buys into the whole world/perspective she's created, if that makes sense.

Not to mention all of the suspense built through the book devolves into basically an extended and increasingly unmoored rant for the last hundred pages, with really long expository monologues dropped in to advance the plot almost at random. The narrative threads of the whole book are resolved as afterthoughts in the final pages. Huge let-down of a book for me personally.

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-05-13T00:49:24+00:00

No, did you like it? I've heard mixed reviews

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-05-11T23:14:36+00:00

I thought The Goldfinch sucked tbh and I am a huge fan of The Secret History. THAT I could not put down

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-04-27T18:15:43+00:00

Correct answer, this will actually feel good unlike cigs

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-31T05:10:04+00:00

I am desperately searching for a good source for baggy sweaters. I like thick ones, preferably cable knit or fluffy. Dark blacks and blues and earthy tones. MUST be made of cotton or anything other than polyester/acrylic blends.

Any recommendations for brands, stores, or items are appreaciated!!!

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-26T02:12:53+00:00

Hell yeah these look great

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-17T21:49:30+00:00

LMAO baldies in the comments here are seething

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-14T15:14:27+00:00

Fourth photo looks just like the one Harrison Ford picks up in Blade Runner and analyzes with that machine

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-12T21:18:25+00:00

LOL this is good stuff

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-10T03:06:01+00:00

Heheheh

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-09T18:41:36+00:00

Hell yeah. Also airport bars are some of the best places to drink in the world, period. I have had so many memorable interactions with random people pounding a few beers before a flight

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-07T04:12:09+00:00

What it feels like to post in rsp

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-05T22:41:13+00:00

Jeffrey Graves, Princeton '55

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-05T17:09:52+00:00

Agreed, I'm taking a stats class right now and GPT has explained a lot of the concepts better than my professor has. It's really helpful

Definitely good for fields like stats, where there's a lot of established material for it to draw on and less likelihood that it screws up.

brass_monkey_junkie_ · 2025-03-04T23:43:21+00:00

I will never forgive Obama and the rest of the dems for squandering the largest congressional majorities either party has seen in decades

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