The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

especially past the three leads the rest of the characters were like cardboard cutouts

except maybe the dad

and judging from the reviews there are def some subtleties people are missing

i dont think the message or formal filmic things were necessarily unsubtle, just the characters and plotting didnt pop for me man, idk w/e it was cool but it couldve been cooler

edelstein's gripe seems like a version of ts eliot's gripe about Hamlet lacking an "objective correlative" (ie, a measuring stick for figuring out just what Ham's whole deal is). of course that lack is precisely the thing which makes the play so infinitely fascinating.

like I've written already it's obvious Scorsese doesn't like them, it's just too long and I too recently resaw Sharon Stone in drug psychosis in Casino.

David Edelstein and T.S. Eliot, fighting in the captain's tower.

edelstein's gripe seems like a version of ts eliot's gripe about Hamlet lacking an "objective correlative" (ie, a measuring stick for figuring out just what Ham's whole deal is). of course that lack is precisely the thing which makes the play so infinitely fascinating.

― ryan, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 10:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the shots of the suicided guy and the the subway and maybe all the fbi guy stuff in his humble office i think were supposed to fulfill that function as someone m/l said upthread

the father in this movie was great Meathead

my objections to the movie have nothing to do w/ any suspicions that MS and Leo "like" Belfort. Dozens of scenes wander on endlessly.
I might've liked the Quaaludes episode if it came at a point in the film where I wasn't already praying for it to end, but just as "cartoonlike" popped into my head, he crosscuts to Popeye on the TV. The light touch.

so uh, is Jordan Belfort Jewish? bcz elderly Rob Reiner is a bigger signifier of Jewishness than Mel Brooks.

lol at morbs - 'wait the dad's an accountant and the son's a stockbroker - gotta be jews right?'

Jordan Belfort is Jewish.

RR sounds like a Borscht Belt comic, fuckface. xp

it is kinda weird to think that this schmuck has inspired two movies now, it's not like his story is so amazing it needs several takes, he's not amy fisher.

his book is prob just one of those things where you read it and are all wow so cinimatic

Hill and DiCaprio are the Leopold + Loeb of penny ante financial scams.

boiler room's so fictionalized that who knows who is who but i'd like to think vin diesel and jonah hill played the same guy.

i guess it was leos thing, he owned the rights and had been wanting to make it for a while then roped marty in

i use their nicknames cause im in leos entorage

we do get to see the 'consequences' so we get to actually see confirmation that these asshole stockbrokers that are basically stealing normal ppl's money are in fact bad guys. like in wolf of wall street who knows, maybe belfort ripped off a bunch of child molesters, we have no way of knowing, the movie's too ambiguous.

it seems like the only reason scorsese still makes movies is because leo finds something and pushes it on him

its true i think about the child molesters

we do get to see the 'consequences' so we get to actually see confirmation that these asshole stockbrokers that are basically stealing normal ppl's money are in fact bad guys. like in wolf of wall street who knows, maybe belfort ripped off a bunch of child molesters, we have no way of knowing, the movie's too ambiguous.

― balls, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:11 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/5/2/1367493269846/David-Blaine-001.jpg

lagoon earlier today

lol xp

im being so misconstrued itt, its not fair

sending Kyle Chandler to talk to you on your yacht, lag.

It was said up thread but that yacht scene was just, wow: from genial jousting to GET THE FUCK OFF MY YACHT

im just an honest appreciatior of film who likes fleshed out multidimensional characters decisive plotting

on the yacht he was more mad at himself than anything

Maybe it's just cuz of the little Kyle chandler stuff I've seen but during his initial cutaways I was like "ugh that dude is always a Boy Scout/FBI agent" and then when he finally gets some lines his slow burn fuck you to Leo was pretty unexpected and awesome. Loved the ambiguity of his subway ride too.

yeah the yacht scene was great

Didn't Kyle keep calling it a boat, too? Or do I misremember?

ha yes totally messing w him

ever been on one of these before
what a boat

Lagoon I bet you'll like this more the second time when you can focus on the sweet stuff and get over wishing it was something more. I was like that with Pineapple Express.

i enjoyed the movie a lot actually, but def i feel like it couldve been great

pineapple express was good too

also, unzip when Margot is onscreen

xxp

the prospect of watching this a second time is a circle undreamt of by Dante.

plz the only dante you know is joe dante

I'm psyched to see it again, idk.

This is gonna be a+ pay cable channel flip fodder - and the kids will like it too!

dang kids

the next time i see this thing it will be on tv and since i can't imagine it will work edited for television (unlike the departed and obv unlike goodfellas which in some ways you haven't truly seen until you've seen it edited for television) maybe not even then. if you don't get margot in the doorway what's the point, you rob the movie of its nuance and subtle charms.

its true this movie has so many subtle boobs in it

thinking that a big part of liking this but not really caring once I walked out was that I just don't dig Leo.
the yacht scene was undermined because all I see is squinty Leo DiCaprio playing his usual part - when he tries to get FUCK YOU vicious it's just a big Pussy Posse kid throwing a fit (which, I guess, is true to the character but boring)

The Departed was not that good but had Marky Mark, Alec Baldwin and Jack hamming it up to distract from Matt Damon
Jonah Hill is no Marky, Alec or Jack.

distract from Matt Damon and Leo being boring

mother of god at the thought of jack saving the departed

I thought this was decent, nothing more—some interesting stretches but some incredibly dull ones as well. Also way too long. Better than any of Marty's non-doc work lately, but that really does not say much.

A lot of the comedy here—such as the excruciatingly long quaaludes scene—seemed like it was repurposed from a Hangover film. If you gave Todd Phillips the same script, I think he'd make nearly the same movie, save for a few music cues.

Todd Phillips could've brought it in under 2:45.