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re: Wolf of Wall Street
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:51 am to McCaigBro69
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:51 am to McCaigBro69
Yep, it was insanely long. Thankfully caught it on a football Saturday, so it was an a/b from the game's onslaught of ads.
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Posted on 10/6/16 at 12:22 pm to Lsuwannabe
Terrible movie
Posted on 10/6/16 at 12:22 pm to Lsuwannabe
Very entertaining, I'd give it a B or B+. In the pantheon of Wall Street movies, I'd place it about equal with The Big Short and Wall Street.
All of them are below American Psycho.
All of them are below American Psycho.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 1:05 pm to Broseph Barksdale
Boiler room is so wonderfully late 90s/early 00s
Posted on 10/6/16 at 6:35 pm to Lsuwannabe
Worst Scorsese movie I've seen. Overly long, scattered plot, sub-par performances, too much amateur-hour physical humor. A few good scenes, but as a whole not too good. I actually disliked it and don't plan on giving it a second chance.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 7:00 pm to LoveThatMoney
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One of the worst movies to be nominated for Best Picture in history
Posted on 10/6/16 at 10:29 pm to biglego
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I didn't care for it at all. Actually I got bored with it
Excess gets tedious very quickly, especially when all the characters are unlikeable.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 10:32 pm to Tigris
A lot of the movie is fun and entertaining, but it's completely un-rewatchable
The movie just keeeeeppss going on and on and on and on. It felt like I was in the theater for 6 hours when I watched it
The movie just keeeeeppss going on and on and on and on. It felt like I was in the theater for 6 hours when I watched it
Posted on 10/7/16 at 1:22 am to airfernando
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but I'm not really one of those arrested adolescent, let's con people out of their money, and blow it all on immature activities kind of people.
People like this are the worst
I'm not one of those hit men, work for a mobster, and let's shoot up some heroin type people.... So I guess Pulp Fiction was terrible...
I'm not one of those way too intense, super a-hole, let's tear a person down as much as I can type people.... So I guess Whiplash was terrible....
I'm not one of those really nerdy, but super arrogant, and let's take someone else's idea and spin it into a billion dollar company type people... so The Social Networt was terrible...
Posted on 10/7/16 at 6:41 am to McCaigBro69
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So you thought, 'The Butler' was a better movie?
Absolutely
Posted on 10/7/16 at 6:53 am to LoveThatMoney
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One of the worst movies to be nominated for Best Picture in history
Ya it sucks.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:41 am to Lsuwannabe
It was entertaining but, I thought it was a little over the top. The quaalude scene was a little much and also, I thought the end drug out a little.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 8:36 am to jg8623
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People like this are the worst
With the wolf of Wall Street I really get it. The movie is just a orgy of sex and drugs. It barely touches on his really shitty business practices. Even goes to the point of breaking the 4th wall only to tell you " you don't really care"
The movie also uses belfort as a primary sources and he is a known liar. He benefits of selling a rediculous story. While entertaining, I believe he is full of shite with a lot of it.
Boiler Room Is the lesser film as far as direction and acting but it does a better job of showing you what working there was probably like.
I am sure that some film student has written a thesis about it somewhere but Scorsese has a pention for making movies about awful people getting what they want, having stripped away due to their shite behavior and then punished by living a life they deem below them
Goodfellas, casino, king of comedy, and wolf are the ones that come to mind
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 8:40 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 9:07 am to Dire Wolf
I think you touched on some of the thematic things that I don't like about this movie. I don't like that some people seem to have something bordering on admiration or the least some amusement at the behavior portrayed in the movie. From my perspective these people are close to the absolute worst types of people in the world. Just huge scum and the thought of them makes me sick.
While the ostensible point of the movie isn't to prop these people up, I kind if feel that a perspective of condemnation or something at least trending that way wasn't present enough. The position of the movie is still a much more positive one than I would take. In an interview that I saw, Jordan Belfort presented his story as "a cautionary tale of greed" and how it corrupts. I think this might be why most of the time is spent on the decadence of their lives rather the crimes that were committed. It shows them getting spun up in that life, almost beyond their control. Minimize personal accountability. Blame it on the drugs.
To me the story is about evil men and the corruption they bring to the world.
While the ostensible point of the movie isn't to prop these people up, I kind if feel that a perspective of condemnation or something at least trending that way wasn't present enough. The position of the movie is still a much more positive one than I would take. In an interview that I saw, Jordan Belfort presented his story as "a cautionary tale of greed" and how it corrupts. I think this might be why most of the time is spent on the decadence of their lives rather the crimes that were committed. It shows them getting spun up in that life, almost beyond their control. Minimize personal accountability. Blame it on the drugs.
To me the story is about evil men and the corruption they bring to the world.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:06 am to Peazey
Belfort, and by proxy the viewer, is removed from the families that he was fricking over. Since it is a movie from his POV I get why they didn't go there but I just wish that there was a scene or two putting their crimes in perspective.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:15 am to Lsuwannabe
"Leo DiCaprio does coke and yells: the movie."
It was funny, but I won't care if I never see it again. Too much yelling and sweating. Just my opinion.
It was funny, but I won't care if I never see it again. Too much yelling and sweating. Just my opinion.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 11:55 am to Nix to Twillie
Posted on 10/7/16 at 1:25 pm to LoveThatMoney
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So you thought, 'The Butler' was a better movie?
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Absolutely
Posted on 10/7/16 at 1:32 pm to eddieray
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It was entertaining but, I thought it was a little over the top. The quaalude scene was a little much and also, I thought the end drug out a little.
Agree on all points.
It felt American Horror Story/Nip Tuck-esque in that regard. Just throw a bunch of weird random shite at a wall and call it art.
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