The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

It's ominous that someone said "Let's make Jonah Hill look grotesque with prosthetics."

gonna see this tonight

Oh boy! Three hours long and Jonah Hill wearing SNL-level makeup? Sold!

martin scorsese has done so many great things for film culture, so for his sake I hope this makes a gazillion dollars

looks awful though. i suppose i could welcome a return to this kind of scorsese film after the soporific hugo but, nah.

Three hours? More like the bear of box office.

im not gonna sweat 3 hours if its marty. tbh lately im feeling like i respect any major release that hits that mark, you almost never see it anymore

??

this film is amazingly good imo

a super swift 3 hrs, totally debauched as per the advance word, hilarious, great performances. probably dicaprio's best performance too.

certainly dicap's best performance in a Scorsese movie, though that's not partic surprising. He just cuts totally loose, all of his other marty roles have been mind of constricted in some way.

better than anything scorsese's done in the 21st century.

I really hope that's true, though I do actually (sorry!) like Hugo.

"better than anything scorsese's done in the 21st century" is not high praise IMO, but i'll take your word for it

initial "reviews" says it's his best film since GoodFellas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/board/nest/222806576?p=1

It's his best movie since "Blood on the Tracks."

I would have to see it again to get a conformation of how it good it actually is but "best since goodfellas" may be otm

Seeing a bunch of excitement on Letterboxd, too. Expectations adjusted.

(Bearing in mind that there are about 4 Scorsese movies post-Goodfellas that I like better than Goodfellas.)

it's better than The Age of Innocence?

("Confirmation" I should have said)

It's better than Cape Fear?

more debauched than Kundun

you'd think theyd rush to show it to more ppl given poll deadlines and the NYFCC whiff.

any major release that hits that mark

Any this fall besides All Is Lost?

so pumped for this. scorsese's most at home with the unpleasant and inarticulate.

Any this fall besides All Is Lost?

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 5, 2013 12:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

all is lost is like 100 minutes dude

that's in its favor!

clearly but im just settin the record straight

oh I see, you're a length man.

i wanted to add that pretty much every performance in this is impressive. dicaprio is incredible as i mentioned, mcconaughey has just a couple of scenes but sets the tone for the whole film, hill is surprisingly good (surprising bc i'd only seen him in some of his comic roles and i thought he was fine if nothing special, not that this isn't a comic role bc it really is). i didn't know who margot robbie was before i saw this but "she's a STAH!" imo. also liked shea wigham's small role as dicaprio's yacht captain.

probably gonna get lost in the discussion, but jon bernthal is A++.

such a bizarre movie. which is in its favor.

pumped now

man i really wanna see this

I'm still making the fictive leap necessary to regard Scrunchy Face as incredible

He was really good in the Great Gatsby

Sounds like he's even better in this

Will see

imo his recent (and all of his scorsese) roles have been very serious minded. i love 'the departed' but damon, wahlberg, baldwin, winstone & nicholson have the fun roles while he's the pill-popping stressed out drama center. he's good in the aviator but he's ruled by disorder demons. in GONY he's supposed to be neeson's son but he never works up anything resembling his compelling charisma, and in shutter island (which is p fun i think) he's just playing a bit of a blank slate crazypants detective. he's cutting loose here and i get the sense he was having a blast while making the film. i mean this whole movie must have been amazing to film.

at this point eagerly expecting a new scorsese movie is kind of like getting really excited over a new springsteen album. i mean, it might be better than the last one, or even the last two, but...

He confided that during the filming of two pics over the last 10 years he wanted to abandon the projects, but refrained from naming them....

Scorsese recalled how they had laughed when the New York Times wrote an article about “Raging Bull,” entitled “What’s happened to language in the cinema?”, but suggested that the language in his latest pic, “The Wolf of Wall Street” is far worse – “They’re making money, you know.”

http://variety.com/2013/film/international/martin-scorsese-i-miss-the-time-when-i-had-the-desire-to-experiment-1200930180/

I hated the movie, but "Django Unchained" certainly showed Leo "cutting loose."

yeah I guess it would have. I never saw it for some reason, probably should at some point.

re: the two he'd wanted to abandon, I'd be shocked if one of them wasn't Shutter Island.

otm

while i have no desire to see "silence" i wish they'd just let him make the damn thing already

You're probably right. That's probably my favorite of his since Y2K.

xp

at this point you can promote Silence as everyone's favorite grandpa fulfilling his bucket list

Silence the book is p rad, highly doubtful a Scorsese movie would be any good but hey

(and re: the 2 movies: Shutter Island and Gangs of New York, it's gotta be)

But I thought that Gangs was one of his pet projects for awhile?

there's already a p gd movie of Silence by Shinoda

thx guys I had erased Shutter Island from my memory

@Elvis, that's true. I was mostly thinking that because of the Weinstein meddling, but from what I'm aware most of that happened after filming anyway. Probably The Departed, then. (Can't see it being The Aviator or Hugo, just because they were big "love letter to cinema" type things and I know that's all he really wants)

Yeah, he really regrets winning an Oscar.

Meanwhile ... this movie ...

Pretty sure the chimp was also in charge of continuity.