The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

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

The movie should have ended after cops pick him up after country club scene.

Those New Zealanders were a sincere lot, weren't they?

did anyone else sit through the end credits? can anyone explain that weird spoken word matthew mcconaughey song that played over them... im amazed nobody mentioned that yet

xp if you mean when he got arrested filming his infomercial i agree

should've ended w/ fbi agent on the subway

leo's dance moves were sweet

wow the subway seemed so sad

she is a porno

should've ended w/ fbi agent on the subway

― balls, Saturday, December 28, 2013 3:31 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats where i was expecting it to end

Kyle Chanlder on subway while Alec Baldwin voice-over says "A family man? FUCK YOU go home and play with your kids!"

then a rat wolf crawls out

sit thru the credits? my poor bladder

said the old man to his nurse two rows behind me

This was...exhausting and insane.

any good things to say though?