The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

yup exactly!

yah like I said upthread I like "process" movies -- movies about watching people at work.

right on!

disappointed at hearing the movie isn't good.

i was kinda into it more than i expected but i think it's because of how hard Mac Dog sold it. he's really great but yeah the movie doesnt surprise you at any turn

it feels almost like he actually wanted to make the movie about the jared leto character and his love of t rex cuz all those scenes feel like they're in a trailer for another film entirely

also treating AZT as like, the bad guy, was a bit dubious

I could introduce you to some AIDS activists from the '80s who would verify that was part of the problem.

it was extremely oversimplified tho no?

well, like everything in a commercial AIDS movie

I haven't seen this yet but according to the New Yorker, Jonah hill got into character by prank calling best buys for hours

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the adam sandler school of acting, jonahs a trailblazer

wouldn't adam sandler be the trailblazer in that scenario

that's how pacino prepared for glengarry glen ross iirc

http://nextshark.com/kenneth-choi-talks-playing-one-of-jordan-belforts-enforcers-in-the-wolf-of-wall-street/

“Most of my preparation entailed eating as much food as I could! I received a note after I won the role that Martin Scorsese wanted me to gain twenty pounds as the character is described as “Oddjob from the James Bond movies.” Chester Ming is a bit of an enforcer for Leo’s character so it was important for him to have some real heft. I gained the twenty pounds, twenty five actually, but it wasn’t enough so, in the end, they had a fat suit made for me.”

this movie is so gd good

I genuinely wish I liked as many movies as you.

I don't.

i wish you guys liked movies more too.

That's not exactly what I said, but I'll give you this round.

Glad you dug it, slocki!

Jonah Hill didn't just prank Best Buy. From that bit in the New Yorker, what makes it hilarious is he supposedly called this one Best Buy in Hawaii again and again and basically talked to the customer service department at length as he refined his speech (it was hard to talk with the fake teeth) and they were so patient and pro they put up with him.

suddenly the Jerry Lewis parallels for this film are growing

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ELtvpOliL._SL500_AA300_PIaudible,BottomRight,13,73_AA300_.jpg

"Hello, do you have 'Music for Noivim'?"

Fucking love that record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-y1N29vH2Y

i love how everyone is just dancing like an idiot for like 75% of this movie

the frame is always so full of movement

the compositions are way more interesting than much-lauded stuff like wes anderson's characters standing in the center of the screen staring at the audience

the frame is always so empty of meaning.

A friend of mine wrote on FB the other day that DiCaprio "looks like the fat kid in grade school whose dad had a lot of money."

I could probably make a list of my favourite dancing-like-an-idiot scenes. This would be number one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNHhUkZjyc

That needs to get remixed to "Happy."

A friend of mine wrote on FB the other day that DiCaprio "looks like the fat kid in grade school whose dad had a lot of money."

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius),

Dennis Perrin is on Facebook?

The Shit of Wall Street

Why don't you go write about some more "singles"? xp

i love how everyone is just dancing like an idiot for like 75% of this movie

the frame is always so full of movement

the compositions are way more interesting than much-lauded stuff like wes anderson's characters standing in the center of the screen staring at the audience

― socki (s1ocki)

love this movie for reasons like that. also love wes anderson almost unreservedly but that's another conversation~!

For sure, my eyes were never left untickled by the movie.

is this the kind of movie that is the same if you randomly edit all the scenes out of order?

no that's ILE

A friend of mine wrote on FB the other day that DiCaprio "looks like the fat kid in grade school whose dad had a lot of money."

this is deep

i mean derp

http://i.imgur.com/ZkK3VRH.gif

ok i lol'd

I really dug this. Too tired to write much more than that atm but I found it really funny and dark and yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah god I am so tired

tiredness otm at least

What you both need are ample amounts of illegal stimulants. Didn't you learn anything?

brb, gonna go snort some boob coke

I do want to see this and I will never have 13.8 hours free to watch it

just replay goodfellas in your head with ferris bueller in place of henry hill

watching this in the cinema was torture, but recently I was in the same room as people watching it and I kept putting my book down to rewatch scenes that I remembered as being really good

i think you mean FUN, cuz that's what a ripoff artist's druggy life is, altho a lesson for us all.

Better to rip off than be the one ripped off?

I was talking about it with a couple of coworkers and I was like 'omg you guys that scene at the party where Jonah Hill was jerking off...' and I started laughing thinking about it and one of them said 'oh that was AWFUL I felt so bad just having to watch that, it was so sad and awful! HIS WIFE was there!!!" and I was still laughing "YES! EXACTLY!! omg so hilarious' and then I realized I was the only one laughing and it got kinda awkward

that is my review of this movie

I've had a few people complain they don't have the time to watch this movie. They do, however, seem to find the time to tweet about game of thrones every week.

Tweeting takes less time than watching a really long film

It's not that long, come on.