The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

All I could think was: God, a whole industry based on calling strangers on the phone.

Edelstein:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/movie-review-the-wolf-of-wall-street.html

I figured Leo must have been sitting in the editing room saying, “No, no, don’t cut here — my favorite line is coming up — 30 more seconds — okay, a minute — wait, let it run! It’s my Oscars scene!” But no, this was Scorsese’s design. Overkill is the ruling aesthetic.

Overkill is the ruling aesthetic

No shit.

This was pretty fantastic.

"I'll never at fuckin' Benihana again."

*Never eat*

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/12/wolf_of_wall_street_prousalis.php?page=2

heh

So here's what I'm going to do first. I'm going to hand you my shame. Right now, in this very moment. The shame that I've been carrying for far too long as a result of being collateral damage. Because each of you should feel ashamed. And then I'm going to go pre-order my tickets to August: Osage County in support of Julia and Meryl -- because at least, as screwed up as that family is, they talk about the truth.

lmao

See also: 10 Reasons the Real-Life Wolf of Street Is a Schmuck Who Shouldn't Be Trusted

I forget sometimes how terrible most people are at watching movies

Totally^

this thread has convinced me that I need to see this movie

al leong's recs hold a lot of water imo

I think it's pale and I'm Norwegian. But, hey, divergence is the spice of life. But not too spicy plz, because I'm Norwegian.

lol <3

i have the feeling this is my equivalent of a popcorn movie

I great the feeling it's someone else's idea of a hookers-and-blow movie.

you say tomato

The way the humor changed from gross-out to very dark in the same sentence was disturbing. A lot of this was OTT, but some of the characters and more reasonable scenes mirrored those in documentaries like Floored and Startup.com. I liked it, but I feel pretty sleazy for taking my 17-year-old brother-in-law to see this. Afterward, he hugged our kitten until his faith in humanity was restored. I should have read this thread first ;_;

a imagine this movie as Casino again , only on Wall Street

Weirdly more like Anchorman-with-millions than Goodfellas, as far as the buffonery of guys' entitlement...

yeah i was telling someone the other day i know if i can trust someone's reccomendation of a scorsese flick based on whether they say 'best since goodfellas' or 'best since casino'.

Somehow wall street movies rarely capture the fact that these guys are not as awesome irl as they are in their minds.

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, June 17, 2013 7:38 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/prousalis-plane.jpg

"best since Bringing Out the Dead" vs. "best since After Hours" vs. "he hasn't made a great movie since Taxi Driver wtf is wrong with you people?!"

reminded me some of bad lieutenant: pocno, but it's not quite that good

leo was incred in this tho

Herzog has a way better feel for comedy than Scorsese.

its def a fascinating bibliography that terence winter has written (at least?) two scenes talking abt women's shaved vaginas and they contain robert loggia & rob reiner, kudos

Can't wait for his next gig showrunning the reboot of Leave it to Beaver.

Herzog has a way better feel for comedy than Scorsese.

― Simon H., Friday, December 27, 2013 9:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

now this is what i call comedy.

this was at least an hour too long and i totally get edelstein's point about some of the scenes lingering a minute or two past what was necessary but i fucking loved it. easily the best performance i've seen dicaprio give. the drug stuff was too much but i wonder if that was the only aspect of these assholes scorsese could relate to. it's impossible to show this much wealth and not glamorize it in some way but i thought it did a pretty good job of making it clear these guys were losers and sociopaths. audience gasped twice, both times involving margot robbie, first time the men, second time the women. liked seeing all the boardwalk empire ppl pop up (including steve buscemi lol).

http://www.closermag.fr/beaute/conseil-maquillage/je-veux-le-smoky-eye-marron-de-margot-robbie-250549

this movie had some amazing shit in it but the characters didnt really click for me they didnt seem like people which made it kinda hard to get into

maybe they were supposed to be like that cause they were psychos idk

some of the scenes tho whoa when they were fighting over the telephone

great movie only misstep being the pop punk covers of sloop john b and simon & garfunkel

jonah hill describing his plan to release his retarded child into the wild lmao

followed by the but seriously we'll put him in an institution

ha yes

jonah hill jackin his dick at the party was a great moment in cinema

http://www.mrwillwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Margot-Robbie-Leonardo-DiCaprio-and-Martin-Scorsese-on-set-of-The-Wolf-of-Wall-Street-1024x482.jpg

http://nypost.com/2013/12/23/my-orgy-with-leonardo-dicaprio/

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.