easily the best performance i've seen dicaprio give
i love that he threw in everything from his nicholson impression to gilbert grape
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 08:02 (ten years ago) link
his reaction on the boat when naomi returns with that one bit of bad news killed me.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 28 December 2013 08:06 (ten years ago) link
just tons of air hanging around every line reading, a certain solemnity that screamed "prestige picture"
Worry not.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 December 2013 10:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― I'm going to need to spend some time alone possibly outdoors (rip van wanko), Saturday, 28 December 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
best scorsese since the departed def
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
joanna lumley!
― napgenius (goole), Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― napgenius (goole), Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
disagree, u could practically see scorsese smiling along approvingly as leo blew coke up up a hooker's ass
― flopson, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
read a review that twice referred to him snorting coke out of a hookers ass smh
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
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
― flopson, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
"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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
I've gotta see this again ASAP.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
same
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― napgenius (goole), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
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
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
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
― napgenius (goole), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
otm
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
firefighters, teachers, fbi agents
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
searing indictment of american capitalism, heartfelt and bittersweet love-letter to 'ludes
― napgenius (goole), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
lol
― flopson, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
― napgenius (goole),
same problems too
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Jordan Belfort is far more interesting on drugs than Henry Hill though!
jordan belfort is not interesting tho?
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
felt like this was maybe a lil more casino in that it went on forever forever rather than goodfellas that just went on forever
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
btw those stupid kiwis really sucked at selling pens
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
The movie should have ended after cops pick him up after country club scene.
Those New Zealanders were a sincere lot, weren't they?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
xp if you mean when he got arrested filming his infomercial i agree
― flopson, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
should've ended w/ fbi agent on the subway
― balls, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
leo's dance moves were sweet
― flopson, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
wow the subway seemed so sad
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
she is a porno
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Saturday, December 28, 2013 3:31 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
thats where i was expecting it to end
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
Kyle Chanlder on subway while Alec Baldwin voice-over says "A family man? FUCK YOU go home and play with your kids!"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
then a rat wolf crawls out
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
sit thru the credits? my poor bladder
― napgenius (goole), Saturday, 28 December 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
said the old man to his nurse two rows behind me
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
This was...exhausting and insane.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 December 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
any good things to say though?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
I have to think about the movie for a while, a lot to process, but Matthew M's scene was A+++
And this felt VERY goodfellas while being very different
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 December 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
I remember wanting to kick Jonah Hill's character in the nuts throughout
Ending was way on the nose, not sure if the audience I saw it with "got it"
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 December 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
Also - and it could have been because I'd done a lot of driving and was tired and my back hurt - I sorta kept wanting it to just fucking end somehow
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 December 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
Like there were stretches that were brilliant but this was late a 180-minute long latter day Eminem album with some self awareness
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 December 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
he reminded me of vince vaughn in Made
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 29 December 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
repeating my love for bernthal in this. Also funny how his pen joke had the same comic timing as ledger's pencil gag in 'the dark knight'
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 29 December 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link