The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

And by "interestingly," I mean "not really."

not really enough?

Exactly. Needed more CGI.

Needed a meat cleaver in editing room.

Gravity isn't the sucky editing nomination in this field. Dallas Buyers Club is. Get your facts straight not gay, slock.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god, i just watched DBC today, it's really very bad! feels like it leaves out basically all the interesting parts of the story. real tv movie.

Six nominations for that piece of crap. SIX!

the main thing that stuck with me about DBC were those bizarre scenes where mcconaughey's walking in front of green screened stock footage of foreign cities

i feel like all the fascinating details of that story, how he got in touch with all those people, the research he did, all of that was jettisoned in favour of award-bait jared leto scenes and shots of dewy-eyed j garns.

and the movie's idea of character development was like... mcconaughey is repulsed by jared leto's character *six months later* he likes him now

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

*title card with tiny type at the end of the movie* azt is actually good

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

i feel like all the fascinating details of that story, how he got in touch with all those people, the research he did, all of that was jettisoned in favour of award-bait jared leto scenes and shots of dewy-eyed j garns.

― socki (s1ocki),

yah like I said upthread I like "process" movies -- movies about watching people at work. This guy went from redneck to Jason Bourne in eight minutes.

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

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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