The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

mcconaughey's gonna be a pretty great weird-looking old guy

he looks exactly how you'd picture him http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/09/04/1225769/656443-jordan-belfort.jpg

mcconaughey's gonna be a pretty great weird-looking old guy

lol I had this thought too

he's been really fun recently, post romcom wasteland

I think mcconaughey looks like he'll be good in this, maybe enough to save it

wild supporting cast

Jon Bernthal
Jon Favreau
Ethan Suplee
Spike Jonze
Rob Reiner
Shea Whigham
Jean Dujardin
Joanna Lumley
Christine Ebersole

i guess jon favreau too old to play the lead. he's jerky enough.

vin diesel was good as the guy in boiler room. i think he was the guy. its been awhile. scorsese should just work with vin.

or wait did ben affleck play the main guy? he's good at being a dick. he's from boston.

joanna lumley?? *mind blown*

I've watched the trailer three or four times, and yeah, some of it works. McConaughey thumping his chest is great--but it's great in the way it plays off the Kanye West song. How well it'll work in the film, especially after you've seen it already, who knows.

The obvious problem, which I'm sure someone's mentioned already, is that every square inch of the immorality/excess/fantasyland of this world has been covered already, starting with Wall Street and especially the past few years in a bunch of documentaries. Scorsese's so late on this. I guess no one's done it as broad comedy yet, but not sure if he's the guy to pull that off.

you guys do know you just watched a 2-minute trailer, and not the actual film, right?

no

Marty's like the Da Vinci code--we look for clues, and hope...Trailer or no trailer, the recent spate of films covering the same general territory is surely a problem. DiCaprio's opening line about 49 million falls so flat--are we supposed to think "That kind of greed is unimaginable!" after Gordon Gekko and the Enron film and Inside Job and all the rest?

you never know when scorsese's gonna surprise you, but honestly this feels like the most overdone and unexciting subject in the world right now

a cross between Charlie Wilson's War and The Boiler Room -- how delicious.

0 stars, worst movie ever. Too short, too clippy

NEXT

I don't think this is any different than the threads for The Tree of Life or The Master, where lots of can't-waits and this-looks-awfuls were posted based on early trailers. Or different than hundreds of such threads. That's what we do here, right?

http://i.imgur.com/n23Kp7P.gif

Wow, didn't know you could dance like that to "Gimme Shelter."

this is the first trailer I've seen in months!

usually I walk in late to movies to miss'em

wow what a rebel

Not to change the subject, but did you see this trailer for a film about a voice-over artist for trailers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiCwrjV06fI

Looks a little precious, possibly funny anyway.

Lou Gossett Jr. on lead vocals in that gif

DiC looks like Joey Buttafuoco in the gif

every subject has been done to death, i mean, this one has been covered a bit, but compared to... what

it's not really the "subject" so much as the treatment of it. Does anyone do wall street movies that aren't in this exact coke-fueled, shiny with a dark underbelly mode?

this one has been covered a bit, but compared to... what

Les McCann biopics?

and marty really should have done one of his famous cameos for the dwarf-tossing scene.

just once i want to see a wall street movie where everyone just sits around working in cubicles and having awkward coffee breaks

it's not really the "subject" so much as the treatment of it. Does anyone do wall street movies that aren't in this exact coke-fueled, shiny with a dark underbelly mode?

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well, there was margin call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cot5rEGcDek

It seems he has to get it to Paramount by 11/25 for Christmas release. (So the critics group I belong to certainly will not see it before our increasingly ridiculous annual awards deadline.)

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/will-scorsese-be-able-to-make-wolf-of-wall-street-deadline

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

It's a wahzy it's a woozy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEJza1-4zRk

hoping this gets darker than the trailers let on

does everything hafta be "dark"? I can only laugh at these monsters now, and he does/did pitchblack comedy well (TKoC, Goodfellas).

both of those films get sufficiently dark

yeah

that trailer makes this look a lot more fun than the first one did. I still don't buy him as the queens boy turned wall street shark. I don't really buy him as anything ever tbh.

Just realized that's Windows on the World up there.

Lotta yelling in that trailer.

Running time: 2hrs 59mins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/business/media/scorseses-wolf-of-wall-street-gets-in-under-the-oscar-wire.html?_r=0

still looks like only the big critics groups see it before deadline

Nobody's mentioned who wrote the script, which is kinda important, maybe? Terence Winter, a writer-producer on Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos, and writer of the 50 Cent vehicle Get Rich or Die Tryin' (which I don't remember existing, and Jim Sheridan directed it).

Saw that one on VH1. This one looks a little more Starz.

It's ominous that someone said "Let's make Jonah Hill look grotesque with prosthetics."

gonna see this tonight

Oh boy! Three hours long and Jonah Hill wearing SNL-level makeup? Sold!

martin scorsese has done so many great things for film culture, so for his sake I hope this makes a gazillion dollars

looks awful though. i suppose i could welcome a return to this kind of scorsese film after the soporific hugo but, nah.

Three hours? More like the bear of box office.