The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

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

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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.

im not gonna sweat 3 hours if its marty. tbh lately im feeling like i respect any major release that hits that mark, you almost never see it anymore

??

this film is amazingly good imo

a super swift 3 hrs, totally debauched as per the advance word, hilarious, great performances. probably dicaprio's best performance too.

certainly dicap's best performance in a Scorsese movie, though that's not partic surprising. He just cuts totally loose, all of his other marty roles have been mind of constricted in some way.

better than anything scorsese's done in the 21st century.

I really hope that's true, though I do actually (sorry!) like Hugo.

"better than anything scorsese's done in the 21st century" is not high praise IMO, but i'll take your word for it

initial "reviews" says it's his best film since GoodFellas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/board/nest/222806576?p=1

It's his best movie since "Blood on the Tracks."

I would have to see it again to get a conformation of how it good it actually is but "best since goodfellas" may be otm

Seeing a bunch of excitement on Letterboxd, too. Expectations adjusted.

(Bearing in mind that there are about 4 Scorsese movies post-Goodfellas that I like better than Goodfellas.)

it's better than The Age of Innocence?

("Confirmation" I should have said)