Gatsby — meh.

But Wuthering Heights I love. However, I can easily, easily see why a person would not share my enthusiasm. It’s a long tough slog, with all that weird dialect that’s almost impossible to decipher. A very dark book, as well. I read it when I was about thirteen, and something made me push through it (probably my love for Jane Eyre, a much more reader-friendly book) and I loved it and still do. But it’s a hard one in every sense of the word.

The former is an excellent comic-book movie (not quite as good as X-Men:FC or The Avengers, about as good as the best of the Raimi Spiderman films).

The latter has Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain, Khan Noonien Singh. If you’ve seen him play Sherlock, I don’t see it as likely to be bad.

Including girls named “Soon-Yi”… 😀

Yeah, it’s the same with sexual fantasies. If you attempt to make them happen, they almost always, if not always, disappoint. Acting out your fantasies is a bad idea no matter what they are.

With the phoniest set of performances this side of an Ed Wood flick, you might as well be watching Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Y’know, people often cite this as the worst movie ever made, but it truly isn’t even close.

No, not even c-l-o-s-e !!

I mean, the most obvious defense you can make, that anyone can see, is that the camera operator had some concept of how to “pull focus”, that is, the entire picture isn’t in FuzzyVision.

No, I would argue that the worst movie ever made — certainly the worst one I’m aware of — which got any kind of theatrical release, is Manos, The Hands Of Fate

Amongst its many qualifying “features” are:
a) Entirely filmed in full power FuzzyVision. No cameras were properly focused during the production of this film.
b) Most, if not all of the footage is poorly chromakeyed — it’s washed out and dull looking. This impacts not only the overall film, but also makes “c” below even worse…
c) It’s about 30 minutes worth of actual footage/story padded out to 74 minutes by endless — and yes, I do mean truly interminable — shots of passing scenery — along with throwaway scenes of people and events who appear nowhere else in the film and have no relevance to the plot or the story or anything except adding time to the movie.
d) Oh, gad, the dialog is soooo slow and boring you want to rip your ears off just so something interesting will happen.
e) Acting? Wut dat?
f) Music. Ewwww. Just ewwww…. Either the soundtrack was also sold as the intermission music used in Drive-Ins throughout the 60s and 70s, or the other way around.

In fact, it would be hard to list a single redeeming feature ANYWHERE in this movie.

I do not recommend you find an original copy. It’s only tolerable with the MST3k commentary track. In fact, it’s so full of things to complain about and make fun of that this is clearly the only way to watch it — either with friends just as capable as the Mistie writers, or with the assistance of the Mistie writers.