The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

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?

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

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"

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

Like there were stretches that were brilliant but this was late a 180-minute long latter day Eminem album with some self awareness

I remember wanting to kick Jonah Hill's character in the nuts throughout

he reminded me of vince vaughn in Made

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'

introduction of bernthal's character on the weight bench was great

Yeah, I dug that scene too

i did a brief stint in my life working with a bunch of salesmen, and i think despite all the nastiness scorsese does try to give some shine to that life, the promise of it anyway. there's a lot in the early learning and teaching scenes that rang true to me, not least of which the contempt for the mark. i don't think we're meant to laugh at the broke single mom who 'made it' or to the new zealanders who are looking for something

was thinking it wouldve been nice to have a little bit more about the craft of selling