I mainly watched this for an impromptu Adam Scott marathon following Bachelorette. Storyline is predictable as it can get. I did enjoy seeing Kirsten Wiig in a more emotional role. (Ok, maybe it's time I admit that I just have a thing for actors named Kirsten.) Anyway, this movie but it helped me scratch my Adam Scott itch and that was that.

Despite Baz's flourishes, this movie followed the book almost to the letter. In spite of Baz's touch, the section immediately following Daisy and Gastby's reunion felt a bit flat. That just might be the cynic in me talking though.

Best Director nomination aside, this movie should make the Academy create a new category for Best Catchphrase and then promptly take home the gold.

The movie missed its mark completely with the one scene when the photographer asks his potential girlfriend to eat 20 steaks in one sitting just so she can earn his permission to date him. Perhaps it was intended to be the climax of this farce but I couldn't get past how it seemed cruel and God awfully denigrating.