The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

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

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

tiredness otm at least

What you both need are ample amounts of illegal stimulants. Didn't you learn anything?

brb, gonna go snort some boob coke

I do want to see this and I will never have 13.8 hours free to watch it

just replay goodfellas in your head with ferris bueller in place of henry hill

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

i think you mean FUN, cuz that's what a ripoff artist's druggy life is, altho a lesson for us all.

Better to rip off than be the one ripped off?

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

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.

Tweeting takes less time than watching a really long film

It's not that long, come on.

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, 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

yeah, no

it's a fucking numbing boring movie

this movie was pure delight!

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.

this movie was pure delight!

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:32 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"5 rolled up dollar bills! it's a blast!"

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 Permalink

Tweeting 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

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.

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.

can you expand on that a bit? is the film aesthetically rote or turgid?

just an honest question: what makes this less aesthetically successful than, say, Goodfellas? because the latter is more entertaining, possibly more fun?

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.

The problems of the film are CERTAINLY to do with morality in part, just not in the way simpletons (pro and con) think.

this movie was really boring

seemed pretty middlebrow

I liked the movie, but I don't like the movie. Goodfellas I love with all my heart.

Can't think of a recent film that succeeds as straight up entertainment the way this does. Lot of opinions ITT don't even compute for me.

I can agree if you see "straight-up entertainment" as its filling of The Hangover Part IV niche.

You can scrub the floors while watching it, Morbs.

scrub? mop? wha?

there are so many amazing scenes in this movie, so much incredible and incredibly weird montage, it really looks and feels like nothing else, it makes me sad that some of y'all can't see that, it just seems so obvious to me what an achievement it is

Those scenes would have stood out in an 80-min film.

the best part about this movie is that after 80 minutes in you realize you've got another 99 joy-inducing minutes to view.

i think someone mentioned upthread that scorsese wasn't good at comedy, which i thought was amazingly wrong. the funny bits in his films are some of the best bits and funnier than you find in most comedies (albeit in different ways.)

there are so many amazing scenes in this movie, so much incredible and incredibly weird montage, it really looks and feels like nothing else, it makes me sad that some of y'all can't see that, it just seems so obvious to me what an achievement it is

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, April 16, 2014 4:32 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really? maybe i should see it again, but it seemed very much of a piece with late (that is, post-goodfellas) scorsese to me. (hugo was a big, dreary exception to the rule.)

scorsese is great at comedy! or at least can be. in fact I like his more broadly comic films best of all. i wouldn't say I like his very self-serious ones LEAST, but I don't hold raging bull in as high regard as many.

I would've been cool with Scrunchy Face's 20-minute country club contortions in an 80-min film.

i also found the tone and directorial approach of this film somewhat hectoring by about an hour in. eventually it became pretty wearying. i spent most of the last 45 minutes wanting it to end.

i think i've said it elsewhere, but the most impressive scenes in this film for me were some of the quieter, less showy ones.

i think this movie's moral force comes in large part from its relentlessness. it just... keeps going, and at every moment seems to be asking, so, you still like these guys, huh? still having a good time?

one of my favorite scenes/moments that has been stuck in my head for the last few days is when Leo's first wife finds him in the limo with the duchess chick, when they're standing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel/casino and there's that repeated shot of them from across the street where it's just this huge wall of reflective brass and windows and lights and him looking defeated and her with her hands on her hips

I love it

it also doesn't give you the moral get-out clause of having them not enjoy their lives. or learn anything.

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