The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

Can't wait for his next gig showrunning the reboot of Leave it to Beaver.

Herzog has a way better feel for comedy than Scorsese.

― Simon H., Friday, December 27, 2013 9:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

now this is what i call comedy.

this was at least an hour too long and i totally get edelstein's point about some of the scenes lingering a minute or two past what was necessary but i fucking loved it. easily the best performance i've seen dicaprio give. the drug stuff was too much but i wonder if that was the only aspect of these assholes scorsese could relate to. it's impossible to show this much wealth and not glamorize it in some way but i thought it did a pretty good job of making it clear these guys were losers and sociopaths. audience gasped twice, both times involving margot robbie, first time the men, second time the women. liked seeing all the boardwalk empire ppl pop up (including steve buscemi lol).

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this movie had some amazing shit in it but the characters didnt really click for me they didnt seem like people which made it kinda hard to get into

maybe they were supposed to be like that cause they were psychos idk

some of the scenes tho whoa when they were fighting over the telephone

great movie only misstep being the pop punk covers of sloop john b and simon & garfunkel

jonah hill describing his plan to release his retarded child into the wild lmao

followed by the but seriously we'll put him in an institution

ha yes

jonah hill jackin his dick at the party was a great moment in cinema

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http://nypost.com/2013/12/23/my-orgy-with-leonardo-dicaprio/

about some of the scenes lingering a minute or two past what was necessary but i fucking loved it

i hope this isn't the same thing that afflicted the elphantine hugo. just tons of air hanging around every line reading, a certain solemnity that screamed "prestige picture" to me while boring me half to fucking death.

i really hated hugo in case you were wondering

this thing is solemn as hell, you should probably avoid it

ha! it looks the opposite, of course. sounds like maybe it's just indulgent of its actors rather than slow-paced.

It's indulgent of everything but propriety. Am seriously questioning why I didn't enjoy it more.

It's possible I've seen to many movies this year and know nothing.

easily the best performance i've seen dicaprio give

i love that he threw in everything from his nicholson impression to gilbert grape

his reaction on the boat when naomi returns with that one bit of bad news killed me.

just tons of air hanging around every line reading, a certain solemnity that screamed "prestige picture"

Worry not.

One thing I keep thinking about is that Jonah Hill, in his first couple of scenes, was mesmerizing imo. I was anticipating a movie's worth of bravura performance, but then once he signs on with the firm his character loses a dimension and it's just the usual ol' Jonah Hill. IDK.

best scorsese since the departed def

joanna lumley!

really loved this, wasn't annoyed by the running time at all.

i can't be the only person on earth to notice that this had the exact same plot as goodfellas. like, exact.

yeah though the ways its different from goodfellas are instructive - scorsese has some affection for/a complicated fascination with wiseguys, whereas i think he just finds belfort & co straight up revolting

disagree, u could practically see scorsese smiling along approvingly as leo blew coke up up a hooker's ass

read a review that twice referred to him snorting coke out of a hookers ass smh

great part when leo's expressing his doubts over hiring jonah hill before he asks him about being married to his cousin: "and he wore those clear thick rimmed sunglasses just to look more waspy" then cuts to him wearing that scarf and polo

disagree, u could practically see scorsese smiling along approvingly as leo blew coke up up a hooker's ass

― flopson, Saturday, December 28, 2013 1:31 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

agree w/balls that the drug stuff is prob the only way he could relate to these guys

"and he wore those clear thick rimmed sunglasses just to look more waspy" then cuts to him wearing that scarf and polo

― flopson, Saturday, December 28, 2013 1:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha nice catch

you know 30 years from now there will be a Marty biopic where he and Robbie Robertson are doing blow off a hooker's ass

I've gotta see this again ASAP.

same

argh all right i know this is going to sound very vague and bullshitty, but there was a moment that really stuck out to me as ~meta~, as in, one character had a line reading or aside that really seemed like it was a ref to something else, either what that actor is otherwise famous for. or maybe earlier scorsese? ha this sounds so dumb. but i wasn't the only one pick up on it at the time, a couple people laughed unexpectedly. jonah hill sounding like the kid from superbad or something? fuck

sorry, that's all i can remember. it was 3 hrs u kno.

i was trying to remember earlier what someone says right before "I'd let her give me fuckin AIDS" because it made me laugh too, but then the AIDS line overwhelmed it in my memory

man the grim physical comedy of jordan being too messed up to handle himself (at the country club) was really something else, amazingly funny and increasingly nauseating: one of the scenes that made me really appreciate this thing's length, the sustained attention on the dipshit minutae of his life, how it all added up to ruin

otm

firefighters, teachers, fbi agents

searing indictment of american capitalism, heartfelt and bittersweet love-letter to 'ludes

lol

not really related to gooles meta question but was it martys voice on the other end of phone when jonah hill calls to quit his job? sounded like it to me

I liked the 'lude scene, some of the sharp cuts and editing tricks, otherwise this felt like Goodfellas II: My Life as a Schmuck. I wasn't bored exactly but this had one motivational speech and lol drug scene too many.

i can't be the only person on earth to notice that this had the exact same plot as goodfellas. like, exact.

― napgenius (goole),

same problems too

Jordan Belfort is far more interesting on drugs than Henry Hill though!

jordan belfort is not interesting tho?

felt like this was maybe a lil more casino in that it went on forever forever rather than goodfellas that just went on forever

btw those stupid kiwis really sucked at selling pens