i wish you guys liked movies more too.
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
That's not exactly what I said, but I'll give you this round.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Glad you dug it, slocki!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
suddenly the Jerry Lewis parallels for this film are growing
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ELtvpOliL._SL500_AA300_PIaudible,BottomRight,13,73_AA300_.jpg
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
"Hello, do you have 'Music for Noivim'?"
Fucking love that record.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-y1N29vH2Y
― 龜, Monday, 17 February 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
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), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
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."
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Friday, 7 March 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
That needs to get remixed to "Happy."
― Eric H., Friday, 7 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius),
Dennis Perrin is on Facebook?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
The Shit of Wall Street
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Why don't you go write about some more "singles"? xp
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki)
love this movie for reasons like that. also love wes anderson almost unreservedly but that's another conversation~!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
For sure, my eyes were never left untickled by the movie.
― Eric H., Friday, 7 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
is this the kind of movie that is the same if you randomly edit all the scenes out of order?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
no that's ILE
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
this is deep
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 7 March 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
i mean derp
http://i.imgur.com/ZkK3VRH.gif
― 龜, Friday, 7 March 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
ok i lol'd
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 March 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
tiredness otm at least
― forum enthusiast (wins), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
What you both need are ample amounts of illegal stimulants. Didn't you learn anything?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
brb, gonna go snort some boob coke
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 April 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
I do want to see this and I will never have 13.8 hours free to watch it
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
just replay goodfellas in your head with ferris bueller in place of henry hill
― forum enthusiast (wins), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
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
― forum enthusiast (wins), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
i think you mean FUN, cuz that's what a ripoff artist's druggy life is, altho a lesson for us all.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Better to rip off than be the one ripped off?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Popture, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 00:19 (ten years ago) link
Tweeting takes less time than watching a really long film
― forum enthusiast (wins), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 12:27 (ten years ago) link
It's not that long, come on.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, April 14, 2014 3:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you remind of the censors who insisted on sticking a moralizing title card on the end of the public enemy
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah, no
it's a fucking numbing boring movie
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
this movie was pure delight!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
I tend to agree with Morbs. The problem is that the movie wasn't fun enough in ways I tend to respond to. They should've forced that woman to cut her hair off with a chainsaw.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:32 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
"5 rolled up dollar bills! it's a blast!"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
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.― Popture, Monday, April 14, 2014 7:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkTweeting takes less time than watching a really long film― forum enthusiast (wins), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:27 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Popture, Monday, April 14, 2014 7:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― forum enthusiast (wins), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:27 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, but when you figure in the time also eaten up by: (A) Watching (and re-watching the show); (B) Reading blogs, recaps & think pieces about the show; (C) Posting to Facebook about the show; (D) Bitching on Facebook about spoilers on Facebook...
I just find it a bit rich when friends complain about movies being too long, and then on to the next topic bragging about binge-watching G.O.T., Breaking Bad, Homeland, Mad Men etc.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
I've tried not to say much on this thread, as I'm so far away from the people who like it, there's not much chance of bridging the divide. I am surprised that anyone would think my problems with the film (or any fan of Scorsese's previous work who hates it) have anything to do with morality--like maybe we think Travis Bickle and Johnny Boy and Jake LaMotta are fine upstanding citizens? My problems are 100% aesthetic. Completely. Absolutely.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
can you expand on that a bit? is the film aesthetically rote or turgid?
― ryan, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
just an honest question: what makes this less aesthetically successful than, say, Goodfellas? because the latter is more entertaining, possibly more fun?
― ryan, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, posting at work...There are so many ways Wolf of Wall Street is a feeble, embarrassing echo of Scorsese's earlier work. Really basic stuff--the performances, the way music is used, the sharpness of the dialogue, the humour, the seriousness, everything. I continue to be amazed that I seem to be in a minority here. I'd say it's closer to turgid than rote, I guess. It hammers home one simplistic point for three hours. If I'm really, really objective, I'll concede that Goodfellas could also be reduced to one or two basic themes: Being a gangster is actually a lot of fun, until it catches up to you, but even then, it might be more fun than not being a gangster--something like that. So I don't love Goodfellas because I think it has something really important to say. It's just done with so much more style, inventiveness, originality, etc., etc.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
The problems of the film are CERTAINLY to do with morality in part, just not in the way simpletons (pro and con) think.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
this movie was really boring
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
seemed pretty middlebrow
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link